subrosea. 
pulveru- 
lenta. 
minu- 
tissima. 
gigantea. 
nararia. 
cosmiana. 
fraterna. 
flavina. 
signata. 
sericea. 
hamaia. 
unicolor. 
ceylonica. 
parasina. 
716 MACROPLECTRA. By Dr. M. Hering. 
N. subrosea Wil. (89 f). Body ochreous, chiefly suffused with pink. Forewing pale ochreous, with a 
pinkish-red subbasal band, 3 pinkish-red antemedian spots, 2 broad median bands, a large dark cross-vein 
spot; then follows towards the margin a postmedian band which is bent round the cell-end, and a more brownish 
subterminal band. Fringe yellowish, speckled with blackish basally. Hindwing dark grey, suffused with pink, 
the yellow fringe with dark basal spots at the tornus. Expanse of wings: 20 mm. Formosa. — Its habitus 
resembles that of Arbelarosa (p. 677, pi. 86 c, d). 
79. Genus: Macroplectra Hmps. 
Palpi long, porrect. Posterior tibia with 2 pair of long spurs. Forewing: 7 separated from the stalk of 
8 —)— 9, 10 almost invariably stalked with 8 + 9. Hindwing: 6+7 from the same basis, or stalked. Antennae 
of $ long bipectinated. Very difficult to separate from Darna (p. 718). 
M. pulverulenta sp. n. (89 f). Vein 8 of hindwing connected with the anterior edge of the cell by a cross¬ 
vein only after the middle. Forewing grey, dusted with brown, but glossy. The dusting is condensed into a 
broad median shadowy band and a submarginal band. Hindwing much paler, brownish ochreous. $ with a more 
indistinct marking. Expanse of wings: 18—20 mm. Khasis, in June and September. $ and $ types from 
Shillong (British Museum). 
M. minutissima Swh. (89 f). Ochreous, forewing with a dark line before the apex to the tornus. Hind¬ 
wing paler. Expanse of wings: 12 mm. India. 
M. gigantea sp. n. (89 f). Body dark brown, abdomen more grey. Forewing brownish ochreous, but 
densely dusted with brown, with a dark oblique line shortly before the apex to the inner margin beyond the 
middle. One indistinct dark dot each at the lower cell-end and obliquely below it. Hindwing blackish-grey. 
Under surface of the ground-colour of the forewing. Expanse of wings: 28 mm. Kwang-tung, in May. $ type 
from Lung-tao-shan (Berlin State Museum). 
M. nararia Mr. (89 f). Forewing and body brownish ochreous, with a brown central dot and a brown 
transverse line between the latter and the margin, parallel to the margin. — In f. cosniiana Swh. ( = suffusa Mr.) 
the marginal area beyond this line is pale yellow, the rest of the wing dusted with brownish. Expanse of wings: 
15—20 mm. India. 
M. fraterna Mr. (89 f) is quite similar, but the brown transverse line begins nearer at the apex and is 
therefore divergent with the margin towards the inner margin. Hindwing dark grey, pale yellow in nararia. 
Expanse of wings: 20 mm. — Larva pink beneath, green above, with a pale red dorsal line edged with yellow, 
with 4 rows of green, spined appendages. India, Ceylon. 
M. flavina sp. n. (89 g). Pectinations of $ antenna decreasing much in length towards the base. Thorax 
and forewing brownish-yellow, hindwing blackish-grey, all the fringes yellow. Expanse of .wings: 22 mm. 
Sambawa, in September. $ type in the British Museum. 
M. signata Mr. (89 g). A forewing varies from ochre to brown, with a dark transverse line which is 
nearer to the margin than in the preceding species and edged with whitish distally. Marginal area and more or 
less also the inner margin dusted with whitish, central dot blackish. Hindwing pale yellow 7 . $ monotonously 
brown as far as the transverse line, marginal area whitish. Expanse of wings: 15—20 mm. Larva yellowish- 
green, dorsum with some dark streaks, with 4 green, red-dotted spined appendages, the anterior and posterior 
ones prolonged. Ceylon. 
M. sericea Hmps. (89 g) differs from signata in the whitish ochreous ground-colour, forewing with an 
indistinct pale reddish-brown submarginal line. Expanse of wings: 20 mm. Ceylon. I range herewith also a $ 
from Ceylon in the Tring Museum, which resembles that of signata, though the ground-colour of its forewing 
is pale ochreous. 
M. hamata sp. n. (89 g). Body and forewing brownish-grey, forewing with a black hook-shaped streak 
at the cross-vein, and a dark grey submarginal line almost parallel to the margin and with a somewhat ochreous 
proximal border. Hindwing dark grey. Expanse of wings: 12 mm. Forewing: 10 on a long stalk with 8 + 9, 
7 very distantly separated from the stalk. Hindwing: cross-vein between 8 and the anterior edge of the cell 
beyond the centre of the cell. Kwang-tung, in September. <$ type from Lung-tao-shan (Berlin State Museum). 
M. unicolor Mr. Unicoloured pale reddish-brown, prothorax and metathorax with blackish dots. 
Expanse of wings: 24 mm. — Larva green, with a pale blue dorsal line, with 4 rows of spined appendages, 
the lateral ones yellow. India. 
M. ceylonica Hmps. Yellowish-brown, dusted somewhat blackish. Forewing with an indistinct 
transverse line before the centre from the cell to the inner margin, an indistinct post median line from vein 
8 to vein 3. Hindwing blackish-brown, fringe yellowish-brown. Expanse of wings: 16 mm. Ceylon. 
M. parasina sp. n. (89 g). Hindwing: 8 connected with the cell bv cross-vein only shortly before the 
cell-end, 6 + 7 from the same basis. Forewing greyish ochre, more or less dusted with purple brown. An 
