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PYBALID.E. 



4865. Macaretaera hesperis, Meyr. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1886, p. 255. 

 Trichoptychodes delicata, Sioinh. A. M. N.S. (6) xiv, p. 207. 



$ . Head, thorax, and abdomen brownish, the last ringed with 

 white; palpi white; fore legs banded yellow and white. "Fore 



wing white, with yellow spot at 

 base of costa; a broad oblique 

 subbasal yellow band with waved 

 outer edge; an oblique yellow 

 antemedial band from costa to 

 median nervure; three oblique 

 bands just beyond the middle, 

 their extremities attenuated, 

 fuscous, and conjoined on vein 3, 

 where they are merged in a 



Fig. 175. 

 Macaretmra hesperis, $ , 



diffused dark patch on inner margin crossed by a waved white 

 line ; the outer area yellow, with a waved oblique white streak 

 from apex and another from outer margin below apex to vein 2. 

 Hind wing white, with a broad fuscous-black marginal band diffused 

 along the median nervules to cell ; the margin white at apex ; the 

 ridge of scales on vein la brown and black. 



§ with the markings of thorax and abdomen yellower ; fore wing 

 with the dark postmedial patch on inner area browner and broken 

 up into streaks on veins 2 and 3 and spots on inner margin ; hind 

 wing with hardly a trace of fuscous on outer area. 



Eab. Ivhasis ; Fiji. Exp., 6 18, $ 20 millim. 



[ Genus FILODES. 



Fiiodes, Guen. Belt. $ Pyr. p. 317 (1854). 



Pinacia, Hilbn. Samml. exot. Schmett. iv, 4, p. 15 (1832), nondescr. 



Auxomitia, Led. Wien. ent. Mon. 1863, p. 39] . 



Type, F. fulvidorsalis, Hiibn. 



Range. Ethiopian and Oriental regions. 



Palpi upturned and hardly reaching vertex of head, the 

 2nd and 3rd joints conically scaled ; maxillary palpi filiform ; 

 frons with a rounded prominence ; antennae nearly one and a 

 half times the length of fore wing and minutely annulated ; 

 fore tarsi of male with the first three joints fringed with hair 

 on inner side ; hind tibiae with the outer medial spur absent, 

 the tarsi very long ; abdomen long, with lateral tufts on terminal 

 segments ; anal tuft of male thick, of female slender. Pore wing 

 with the costa highly arched towards apex ; veins 3, 4, 5 from 

 angle of cell, 7 curved and approximated to 8, 9, to which 

 10 also is closely approximated. Hind wing with the cell short ; 

 veins 3, 4, 5 radiating from the angle ; 6, 7 on a long stalk, 

 7 anastomosing or in male becoming coincident with 8. 



