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along the costa and exterior border ; the extreme costal edge yellowish ; a trans- 

 verse curved antemedial and an irregular interrupted postraedial black denticulated 

 line, and a curved streak at end of the cell; both lines dilated at the costal end : 

 hindwing with the extreme base bluish purplish-brown; a slender bent streak at end 

 of the cell, and an interrupted discal line ; apical border and marginal line also 

 tinged with bluish purplish-brown. Cilia cinereous-brown, whitish posteriorly, and 

 with a dark brown inner line. Thorax, head, and palpi above purplish-brown ; palpi 

 beneath white; abdomen ochreous-yellow towards the end, with anal and subanal 

 brown-bordered bands ; legs whitish ; fore tibise with brown bands. 

 Expanse 1 inch. 



Genus MARASMIA. 

 Marasmia, Lederer, Pryal. Wien. Ent. Monat. vii. p. 385 (18G3). 



Wings somewhat narrower than in Cnaphalocrocis. Male : forewing with an 

 elongated oval glandular pouch situated below the first subcostal and occupying the 

 upper exterior half of the cell, the pouch being covered above by a tuft of long coarse 

 curved scales, which project backward from the costal vein ; the subcostal is curved 

 below the pouch and thence upward to near end of the cell, the second and third 

 branches being emitted close to the end, and fifth from the end ; upper radial from 

 near middle of discocellular ; lower median at one-fourth before end of cell : hindwing 

 with similar venation to Cnaphalocrocis, and a lanuginous costal patch before the 

 apex. Abdomen with a slender pointed anal tuft, and a villose tuft on the two sub- 

 anal segments ; palpi porrect, broad, pointed in front, clothed with long decumbent 

 hairy scales, truncate above, third point concealed ; maxillary j^alpi dilated with 

 scales at the lip ; antenna submoniliform ; legs slender, fore tibife tufted. 



MARASMIA RURALIS. 



Bofi/s ruralis. Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xviii. p. 666 (1859); id. xix. p. 994. 

 Marasmia cicatricosa, Lederer, Pyral. Wien. Ent. Monat. vii. p. 386, pi. 12, fig. 8 (1863),^. 



Pale yellow ; forewing with a costal and exterior marginal purplish cinereous- 

 brown band ; some prominent black dots, about ten in number, along middle of the 

 costal edge ; crossed by an inwardly- oblique brown antemedial line, and an irregular 

 discal line, the latter bent inward to below the cell and almost touching a lunule at 

 end of the cell : hindwing with a brown line from end of the cell, and a discal line, 

 both ending at anal angle ; beyond which is a broad purplish-cinereous marginal 

 band. Cilia whitish, with a brown inner line. Thorax in front, head, palpi above, 

 and fore tibi^ cinereous-brown ; palpi beneath and legs whitish. Male with an 

 elongated oval glandular pouch extending below the costa to near the median vein, 

 the pouch covered above by a tuft of long coarse blackish-cinereous scales, which 



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