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MACARIIDJ51. 
MAC ARIA, Curt. 
Macaria metagonaria. (Plate CXVIII. fig. 11.) 
Azelina metagonaria, Wall-er, Cat. Lep. Het. xxv. p. 1518 (18G2). 
Wings above testaceous to beyond the middle, mottled and striated with grey-brown ; 
costal borders yellow, spotted with black ; a broad brown stripe across the basal third ; a 
yellow band beyond the middle intersected by a black stripe, and bounded externally by a 
black band ; external area purplish grey, striated with blackish and mottled here and there 
with testaceous ; a wedge-shaped brown-bordered yellowish costal patch towards apex of 
primaries, and two obliquely placed black spots near centre of disk of secondaries, with an 
interrupted black marginal line ; fringe dark grey, tipped with ochreous and with a pale 
basal line : body above smoky grey; head ochraceous, black-speckled; abdomen testaceous 
at the sides. Under surface bright deep ochreous, sparsely speckled with brown, an 
irregular brown streak across the basal third ; external area of primaries nearly as above ; 
external area of secondaries almost wholly ochreous, striated with brown ; otherwise nearly 
as above, but without the black discal spots : body below ochreous. Expanse of wings 
39 millim. 
Darjiling {Lidderdale, ^c). 
Macaria xanthonora. (Plate CXVIII. fig. 12.) 
Macaria xanthonora. Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. xxiii. p. 935. n. 122 (1861). 
Greyish brown, striated here and there with yellow : wings crossed in the middle by a 
tolerably regular yellow-tinted white band, beyond which is a narrow falciform yellow line 
only separated from the band (excepting towards costa of primaries) by a black line ; a 
blackish marginal line ; a broad yellow-streaked grey cuneiform costal patch from the central 
band to the apex of primaries : secondaries with a large blackish j^atch in the middle of the 
disk just beyond the central band ; a dark brown angular subapical dash. Primaries below 
with the basal area, veins, and costa broadly ochreous ; central band white, speckled with 
dark brown : secondaries ochreous to beyond the middle ; external area greyish ; fringe with 
a white basal line ; a blackish discocellular spot : body below ochreous. Expanse of wings 
40 millim. 
North India. 
