Volume 33, Plate XXIX / Entomology (Insects)

Asthenia podaliriaria, Macrotes netrix, M. sospeta & Eumelea Rosalia

1. Asthenia poda­liriaria. A new species from Rio Janeiro expanding one inch and three-quarters, very pale cream-colour with three narrow transverse brown bars across the fore wings and a large blackish apical patch, the bars continued across the tailed hind wings to meet at the anal angle. The slender curved tail bears two black spots, the outer with an orange stripe, the antennae black and strongly bipectinated, the legs and body short and weak.
2. Macrotes netrix. A moth remarkable for the great length of its antennae, legs, and abdomen, belonging to the Geometridae with subfalcate angulated wings, the general colour pale buff with darker brown shades and dots. The hind wings bear an angulated vitreous discoidal spot margined with black, a purple costal patch, and a curved row of dark dots; expanding two inches and one-third, its locality is unknown.
3. Macrotes sospeta. A pretty Jamaican geometer about two inches and five lines across, pale yellow, the anterior wings with brown spots tending to form two irregular macular bands, the hind wings with a large transverse brown spot near the abdominal margin. The head is pale yellow, the thorax and abdomen yellow shading into brown behind, the legs yellow spotted with brown, the underside markings answering to the surface.
4. Eumelea Rosalia. A finely coloured moth remarkable for the great length of its robust legs and simple antennae, which when extended reach to the very apex of the ample rounded wings. The colour is entirely a deep rose red changing with the light and marked with many slender transverse yellowish striae, the spiral tongue developed and of some length; its locality is unknown.