1644 CATALOGUE OF 



wings falcate, with some semihyaline marks in front; interior and 

 submarginal lines composed of a few blackish marks ; costa and 

 exterior border straight, the latter very oblique ; marginal line black- 

 ish ; under side with a white apical patch. Hind wings with the 

 exterior border subcaudate or acutely angular, somewhat truncated 

 hindward ; fringe blackish in front. Length oi the body 6 lines; 

 of the wings 35 lines. 



a. Para. From Mr. Bates' collection. 



Macaria? Libaria. 



Flavescens ; alee fuse n dense conspersce, lineis interiore et media 

 rufis obliquis rectis apud costam angulatis, margine exteriore 

 angulato ; anticce costa basi convex a ; posticce linea exteriore 

 rufa. 



Phalaena-Geometra Libaria, Cram. Pap. Exot. iv. 131, pi. 357, f. 

 L, M. 



Surinam. 



Macaria?? subornata. 



Fcem. Testaceo-albida ; vertex albus, nigro marginatus ; palpi 

 subjilosi, articulo 3o nigricante ; alee amploe, nigro subcon- 

 spersce ; antica peracuta, annulo maximo antico ochraceo 

 nigro-vario, annulo postico guttisque duabus discalibus nigris, 

 costa bo.si subconvexa, margine exteriore inciso ; posticce mar- 

 gine exteriore dentato. 



Female. Whitish, slightly tinged with testaceous. Vertex 

 white, bordered with black in front. Palpi porrect, rather slender, 

 slightly pilose, shorter than the breadth of the head ; third joint 

 blackish, conical, extremely minute. Wings ample, thinly black- 

 speckled. Fore wings very acute, with a large ochraceous black- 

 varied loop line, which extends from the cosia to the disk, and is 

 recurved thence to the costa; a large black ringlet on the interior 

 border opposite the line; two black dots placed transversely in the 

 disk near the exterior border, which is notched in the middle; costa 

 slightly convex towards the base, slightly contracted exteriorly. 

 Hind wings with an incomplete ochraceous middle line ; exterior 

 border dentate in the middle. Length of the body 6? liues ; of the 

 wings 18 lines. 



a. Monte Video. Presented by C. Darwin, Esq. 



