LEPIDOPTEEA HETEEOCEEA. 1659 



Macaeia PERFUSAETA. 



Mas. Ferruginea; palpi porrecti, caput sat super antes, articulo 

 So lanceolato ; antenna pubescentes ; abdomen apice canum ; 

 tibice posticce non incrassatce ; alee fusco conspersce, lineis dua- 

 bus nigro-fuscis rufescente marginatis vix denticulatis ; anticce 

 linea nigro-fusca subrecta ; posticce linea submarginali nigri- 

 cante indeterminata, margine exteriore vix angulato. 



Male. Ferruginous, deep ochraceous beneath. Palpi porrect, 

 extending rather beyond the head, much shorter than the breadth 

 of the latter; third joint lanceolate, less than half the length of the 

 second. Antenna? pubescent. Abdomen as long as the interior 

 border of the hind wiugs ; apical tuft hoary, moderately large. 

 Hind tibia? not dilated. Wings very thickly brown-speckled ; two 

 blackish brown hardly denticulated lines; tirst antemedial, reddish- 

 bordered on the outer side ; second postmedial, more distinct than 

 the first, reddish-bordered on the inner side; marginal festoon 

 blackish. Fore wings acute; a blackish brown nearly straight line 

 near the base; exterior border very slightly convex, rather oblique. 

 Hind wings with a blackish incomplete submarginal line; exterior 

 border slightly festooned, hardly angular in the middle. Length 

 of the body 5 lines; of the wings 13 lines. 



Mount Ophir. In Mr. Saunders' collection. 



Macaria poeeectaeia. 



Foem. Cinerea ; palpi porrecti, caput longe superantes, articulo 

 3o lanceolato ; abdomen nigricante sex-punctatum ; alee nigro 

 consper see, fascia postmedia ferruginea dentata nigro einereo- 

 que conspersa, spatio marginali rufescente, litura media magna 

 ferruginea, margine exteriore vix ojtgulato ; anticce lineis dua- 

 bus e guttis nigris ; posticce fasciis duabus ferrugineis, 2a 

 antice abbreviata. 



Female. Cinereous, white beneath. Frontal tuft prominent, 

 acute. Palpi porrect, extending much beyond the head, not longer 

 than the breadth of the latter ; third joint lanceolate. Abdomen as 

 long as the interior border of the hind wings ; first, second and third 

 segments with a blackish point on each side. Legs brown-speckled. 

 Wings black-speckled, with a ferruginous postmedial band, which 

 is bordered with black and with cinereous on the outer side, where 

 it is especially dentate in the fore wings; space between the band 



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