PLAT YCEROTA. — GONODEL A . 
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PLATYCEROTA, g. n. 
Male. Antennge flattened, laminate above and below, smooth at sides. Palpi short and 
porrect, the third joint hardly visible. Fore wiag with the five subcostals stalked together, 
the first given off" after the accessory cell and anastomosing with the costal ; the upper radial 
from the upper angle of cell ; the lower radial from the middle of the discocellulars ; the 
third median from the end of the cell ; the second and first medians at intervals before the 
end ; submedian nearly straight. Hind wing with the costal arched near the base, then 
running along the subcostal to half the length of the cell ; two subcostals from the end of the 
cell ; the discocellulars oblique ; the radial absent ; the third median from the end of the cell ; 
the first and second medians at intervals before the end ; an internal nervure. 
Type P. {Ennomos ?) spilotelaria, Walk. 
Platycerota praictilineata. (Plate CLXIX. fig. 8.) 
Expanse 1^ inch. 
Female. Dull mahogany-brown, the wings sparsely irrorated with dark scales. Fore 
wing with an antemedial series of black specks ; a spot at end of cell ; a diff'used dark blotch 
in interno-median interspace below the end of the cell ; a maculate postraedial black line 
excurved at the middle, with some dark blotches beyond it. Hind wing with a black spot at 
end of cell ; a postmedial series of black specks on the nervules. Underside with the black 
cell-spot and postmedial series of spots on both wings prominent ; a black spot on the cilia of 
fore wing at apex. 
MACARIINjE. 
Gonodela hebesata, Wlk. (Plate CLXX. figs. 2, 9.) 
Macaria hebesata, WVc. Cat. xxiii. p. 931. 
Expanse 1^ inch. 
Male. Brownish white, irrorated with pale brown scales and slightly suffused with 
ochreous. Fore wing with doubly-curved antemedial and medial yellowish-brown lines, the 
latter forked towards costa; a postmedial obliquely-curved double line, highly excurved 
below the costa, where it is forked, and with dark blotches beyond it at middle and towards 
inner margin ; a slight marginal line. Hind wing with an antemedial slightly waved line ; a 
black speck in the cell ; a postmedial, dark, double, slightly waved line, with some yellowish 
suffusion beyond it, and two blackish blotches beyond it near middle. Underside yellower ; 
the area beyond the postmedial line of both wings mostly sufi'used with red-brown ; a white 
subapical spot to fore wing. 
Female with the black blotches beyond the postmedial lines of each wing quite or almost 
absent. 
