MACROSHACHIA; PHALERA. By M. Gaede. 
II. P a 1 p i longer. Antennae of $ with stiff pectinations. 
R. striata Hmps. Forewing light brown with dark brown clouds, especially towards the apex. Above striata. 
veins 6 and 4 black streaks. The exterior indistinct band at vein 3 incurved to the base of the inner margin. 
From the centre of the distal margin to the inner margin before the angle a dark band; on its outside dark 
grey. Hinclwing similar to plumosa. $ 75 mm. Sikkim. 
R. nodyna Sivh. Thorax light and dark brown. Forewing dark brown, hued with violet. Interior line nodyna. 
very indistinct and obliquely from the costal margin to vein 2 behind the centre and to vein 1 sharply inwards. 
Above the centre of the inner margin and vein 4 one dark streak each, in the lower cell-end a light streak. 
Exterior line very indistinct, obliquely inwards to the interior line at vein 2, then outwards, marked by black 
and ochreous streaks. Submarginal line ochreous brown. Hindwing brown. <$ 70 mm. Khasia Hills. 
18. Genus: Macroshacliia Mats. 
M. lineata Mats. The figure exhibits a slight resemblance to Rachia plumosa Mr. of which no $is before me. lincata. 
19. Genus: Phalera Hbn. 
Palpi short. Forewing elongated, vein 5 above the centre of the cross-vein, 6 from the accessory cell, 
10 —p 7 —|— 8 —[— 9 from its apex. In the hindwing veins 6 7 on a long stalk. Type: bucephala L. from Europe. 
— As to the European species cf. Vol. II, p. 311; as to the African species cf. Vol. XIV, p. 417. 
I. Antennae of d strongly tufted almost to the tips. In the hindwing v e i n 5 
above the centre of the cross-vein. 
Ph. parivala Mr. (80 a). Frons and mesothorax wood-coloured yellow, abdomen dark brown. Forewing parivala. 
dark red-brown, at the base whitish. The brown submarginal band is narrow, on both sides luniformly notched, 
extending to vein 3. Hindwing brown. 70 -85 mm. Sikkim, Siam. 
Ph. sangana Mr. (81 a). Easily discernible by the white frons. Thorax dark, abdomen blackish-brown, sangana. 
with light rings. On the forewing the short submarginal band is very dark, almost darker than the costal 
margin; its interior border is very indistinct, notched. Before the anal angle blackish. — stigmigera Btlr. is 
only separated by a white reniform macula and a darker anal angle, — arenosa Btlr. by the yellow frons. 
75—80 mm. Sikkim. The figure in Vol. II, pi. 47 c is probably a dark procera Fldr., so that this would be also 
palaearctic. 
Ph. torpida Wkr. (81 a). Uniformly faded red-brown, only the interior and exterior lines distinct, torpida. 
Subapical spot pale, narrowly extending to vein 4; on its outside some pale yellow submarginal spots. Abdomen 
without light segmental margins. 60 -75 mm. Sikkim. 
Ph. procera Fldr. (= bobi Swh.) (81 b). Frons white, abdomen as in sangana. The red-brown forewing procera. 
at the inner margin mostly greyer and, in this case, before the interior line a distinct black spot. Apical spot 
large, inside rounded and intensely edged with black, at the costal margin with a short inward point, outside 
slightly notched, in a bow to below the apex. At the anal angle no dark spot. Two $$ from the Kina Balu 
exhibit a very large, very dark brown apical spot edged with a broad black shadow. 70—90 mm. Sikkim, 
Burma, Malacca, Borneo. 
Ph. goniophora Hmps. Similar to procera (81 b). Apical spot reddish ochreous-brown, edged with yellow, goniopliora 
with 3 dark streaks from the costal margin to vein5. From this spot the exterior line proceeds almost vertically 
to the inner margin, behind it black dots. 60 mm. Pundjab. - Larva gregarious, black with brown rings which 
are interrupted on the dorsum. 8 white dorsal and lateral lines. Hair-tufts arranged in rings, brown with 
white tips. On Quercus serrata. 
Ph. raya Mr. (= grotei Mr., cossoides Wlcr.) (81 a, b). Frons yellow wood-colour, abdomen light or raya. 
dark ochreous brown, forewing greyish-white, at the costal margin red-brown, sometimes with numerous dark 
undulate lines. Apical spot mostly broadly edged with white, often somewhat brownish instead of yellow and 
inside often notched. A series of black submarginal spots, the spot above vein 2 being especially distinct. 
Exterior line at the inner margin with a dark spot. — amboinae Fldr. only differs in the lighter base of the 
forewing. 55—70 mm. North India, South China. — Larva bluish-white with a few hairy subdorsal tubercles, 
laterally yellow with a red line, stigmata black. After the last moult the ground-colour turns white. — acuta acuta, 
form. nov. On the apical spot the interior edge is almost invariably notched; as its course is steeper, the lower 
end of the spot is more pointed. Java, Sarawak. - obscura Wilem. The description corresponds rather well to 
all the species of Phalera. Judging from its size, it may be merely raya. Formosa. 
Pb. javana Mr. (81 b). Similar to raya. On the forewing a black spot at the inner margin before the javana. 
interior line, no spot behind the exterior line. The apical spot terminates more pointedly at vein 4. 65—80 mm. 
Java. — amplificata form. nov. In the typical form the apical spot only projects strongly distad at vein 6, amplificata 
