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MACADUMA. By Dr. M. Draudt. 
micans. 
fuliginosa. 
corvina. 
pallicosla. 
rufocostalis. 
reducta. 
fusca. 
querci folia. 
aroa. 
rothschildi. 
p. 
castanea. 
castaneofus- 
ca. 
rufoumbra- 
ta. 
indistincta. 
toxopliora. 
M. micans Hmps. (16 b) is somewhat like tortricoides , but more blackish-brown and with a but very 
small orange-yellow discal spot. Hindwings blackish-brown. Mysol. 
M. fuliginosa Rothsch. is quite unicolorously sooty blackish-brown with traces of a reddish line round 
the apex of the forewing. Kumusi River (New Guinea). 
M. corvina Fldr. (16 b) is of a deep purple, abdomen and hindwings more blackish-brown. Fiji 
Islands. 
M. paliicosta Rothsch. Head and antennae cinnamon-brown, thorax chocolate-brown, abdomen 
wood-brown. The forewing is in the two basal thirds chocolate-brown, the apical third more cinnamon-brown; 
costal part cinnamon-coloured, towards the apex lighter. Hindwings drab, costal and proximal margins whitish. 
Length of forewings: 11 mm. Queensland. 
M. rufocostalis Rothsch. Head, antennae, and thorax cinnamon-red, abdomen brownish drab. Forewhig 
cinnamon-brown with a dark red costal margin; in the middle of the wing there is a small grey-spot. Hindwing 
drab, costal margin yellowish-grey. Length of forewings: 9 rrm. Tie ncrrenclatural type comes from Biagi 
on the Mambare River (Brit. New Guinea). — subsp. reducta Rothsch. from the Entrecasteaux Archipelago, 
Fergusson Island, has more greyish forewings; the red costal margin is distinct only in the apical third; thorax 
and abdomen are monotonously brown. 
M. fusca Hmps. is unicolorously blackish-brown with a slight purple reflection; legs, venter and anal 
tuft in the ochreous-yellowish, in the $ more brownish-black. The costa of the forewing is somewhat reddish. 
Kapaur in South West New Guinea. 
M. quercifolia Rothsch. Head and antennae yellowish cinnamon-red, thorax more purple, abdomen 
yellowish-brown. The forewing, the costal margin of which is liairily lobated behind the cell, is cinnamon-brown 
with two darker, oblique transverse lines united at the said lobe. Hindwings reddish-buff. Length of forewings: 
10 mm. Biagi (British New Guinea). 
M. aroa B.-Bak. Head and thorax red-brown, abdomen yellowish-brown. Forewing reddish-brown 
with a darker basal spot occupying the basal third; at the cell-end a dark spot followed by a fine, dentate line. 
Hindwing yellowish-grey, at the margin darker. Expanse of wings: 29 to 30 mm. Aroa River. 
M. rothschildi nom.nov. (= castanea Rothsch. nec Hmps.). Head and thorax chestnut-brown, abdomen 
wood-grey, anal tuft chestnut-brown. Forewing chestnut-red, in the basal half dusted grey with an oblique, 
dark zigzag line from the median to the proximal margin. Hindwings yellowish grey. Length of forewings: 
12 mm. Queensland (Cairns). 
M. castanea Hmps nec Rothsch. Head, thorax and abdomen chestnut-brown, beneath like the anal 
tuft yellow. Forewing chestnut-brown, in the marginal half dusted grey, and with a curved, extinct, chestnut- 
brown postmedian band. Hindwing yellow, at the margin reddish-brown. On the under surface the costal 
margin is yellow towards the apex. Expanse of wings: 28 mm. Dutch New Guinea (Fak-Fak). 
M. castaneofusca Rothsch. Head, antennae and thorax chocolate-brown, abdomen yellowish brownish- 
grey. Forewing greyish chocolate-brown, densely dusted with a darker brown; from the costal lobeto the apex 
runs an angled, brown line. Hindwings yellowish, dusted grey. Mount Goliath, Dutch New Guinea (January). 
M. rufoumbrata Rothsch. <$: antennae yellowish-brown, head and thorax chocolate-brown, abdomen 
wood-brown. Forewing violettish-brown, an antemedian, oblique, brown transverse streak; in the cell a white 
spot, behind the middle a dark, curved zigzag line, behind it an indistinct, transversely curved line and a marginal 
line from the apex to the lower radial vein. Hindwings reddish yellowish-grey. The variable $ occurs in 3 
forms: one being unicolorously chocolate-brown with dark drab hindwings; another cinnamon-brown form with 
traces of a postmedian transverse line and yellowish-grey hindwings; a third form is reddish-grey, the proximal 
margin and distal third of the wing being chocolate-brown, markings like in the but fainter and more indistinct, 
with 2 grey and 1 black spot in the cell, the distal third of the wing being very much scaled silvery grey. Hind- 
wings reddish yellowish-grey. Length of forewings: $ 14 mm, $ 17 mm. Mount Goliath, Dutch New Guinea. 
— subsp. indistincta Rothsch. from the Angabunga River (British New Guinea) is smaller, with more faded 
and more indistinct markings; the $ is much more dusted grey. 
M. toxophora Trnr. (16 b) shows on its greyish-brown forewing a postmedian, dentate, black transverse 
line; the costal margin is whitish with single black spots; at the transverse vein a white spot. Hindwings blackish- 
brown. Queensland (Brisbane). 
