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subcostal n-ervure, the other veins slightly tinged with fuscous ; a 

 discocellular black lunule and a marginal series of black specks. 

 Hind wing hyaline white, with marginal series of black specks 

 from apex to vein 2. 



Hah. Tenasserim; Java; Solomons; New Britain; Australia. 

 Exp. 32 millim. 



Sect. III. (Oydalima). Antennae of male with the basal joint 

 dilated, the basal part of shaft thickened with scales and 

 contorted; fore wing with the apex produced, the outer 

 margin oblique. 



4864. Caprinia conchylalis, Ouen. Belt, fy Pyr. p. 303, pi. 8, fijr. 9 ; 

 C. $ S. no. 4200. 



Pure white ; head black-brown, the palpi with a metallic tinge ; 



Fig. 174. — Caprinia conchylalis, $ . \. 



collar, fore and mid legs tinged with cupreous brown ; anal tuft 

 of male black. Tore wing with broad costal cupreous-brown band ; 

 both wings with series of silvery stria? close to the margin, which is 

 silvery white. 



Hah. Sikhim ; Assam ; Bombay ; Nilgiris ; Ceylon ; Burma. 

 Exp. 40-46 millim. 



Genus MACARET^RA. 



Macaretaera, Meyr. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1886, p. 255. 

 Trichoptychodes, Swinh. A. M. N. H. (6) xiv, p. 207 (1894). 



Type, M. 7iesperis, Meyr. 



Range. Khasis ; Fiji. 



Palpi upturned and reaching vertex of head, the 2nd and 3rd 

 joints conically scaled and flattened ; maxillary palpi filiform ; 

 irons flat and oblique ; antennae annulated ; tibiae slightly fringed 

 with hair on outer side, the outer spurs about half the length of 

 inner. Pore wing with vein 3 from before angle of cell ; 4, 5 from 

 angle ; 7 well separated from 8, 9, to which 10 is approximated. 

 Hind wing with the median nervure pectinated above ; vein la in 

 male with a thick ridge of scales above ; the cell about half the 

 length of wing ; vein 3 from angle, in male with a small tuft of 

 scales below near the margin ; veins 3, 4 stalked, in male 4 almost 

 obsolete ; 6, 7 from upper angle, 7 anastomosing with 8. 



