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slightly undulated brown lines, the one nearest the base least distinct, the outermost line 
angulated towards the costa of primaries ; black discocellular dots ; a dentate-sinuate discal 
grey stripe, interrupted in the centre, on each wing, by a black spot ; a black marginal line ; 
costal margin of primaries yellowish, speckled with brown. Wings below clouded with 
yellow, the markings reddish brown. Expanse of wings 1 inch. 
Shanghai {Fortune). 
Macaria zachera. (Plate LII. fig. 2.) 
Macaria zachera, Butler, Ann. 4" Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, yol. i. p. 405 (1878). 
Sordid white, becoming pure white at outer border, speckled with black ; two central 
parallel dark brown lines on a yellowish ground, the outer one abruptly angulated and forked 
towards the costa of primaries, the fork filled in with ochraceous ; a slender undulated marginal 
blackish line; fringe cream-coloured; discocellular spots black: primaries crossed by an 
angulated dark brown line near the base : body greyish. Wings below brighter than above, 
but very similar in marking. Expanse of wings 1 inch 5 lines. 
Yokohama {Jonas). 
Macaria maligna. (Plate LII. fig. 3.) 
Macaria maligna, Butler, Ann, 4" Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, vol. i. p. 405 (1878). 
Pattern of the preceding species, but the ground-colour above slaty grey : below sandy 
yellow, with broad tawny external area ; markings as above. Expanse of wings I inch 3 lines, 
Yokohama {Jonas). 
BITHIA, Walker. 
Bithia amasa. (Plate LII. fig. 4.) 
Bithia amasa, Butler, Ann. ^ Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, vol. i. p. 405 (1878), 
Greyish testaceous, covered with brown striations ; the basal area crossed by two ill- 
defined subangulated darker stripes ; a series of blackish discal dots more or less connected 
by a very indistinct undulated line, barely perceptible on the primaries ; a discal pinky- 
brownish irregular belt, clouded with blackish in the primaries ; outer border paler brown ; 
fringe yellowish : primaries with yellow-dotted black costal margin, a pale testaceous apical 
patch, a series of blackish marginal spots : secondaries with whitish costal area ; a blackish 
spot near the base; discoeellulars blackish. Undersurface bright testaceous, covered with 
brown striations ; large black discocellular spots ; a nearly central ferruginous stripe ; a 
broad discal ferruginous belt ; outer border clay-coloured, clouded with ferruginous : primaries 
with bright testaceous apical spot ; anterior coxm bright ochreous. Expanse of wings 1 inch 
8 lines. 
Yokohama {Jonas). 
