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Genus Marasmarcha Meyrick 

 Logotype Alucita lunacdactyla Haw. 



Manuinanha Meyrick, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 11, 1886. 



Id., op. cit. 488, 1890. 



Id., Handbook 437, 1895. 



Hofmann, Deutsch. Pter. 48, 115, 1895. 



Tiitt. Pter. Brit. 81, 1896. 



Id., Ent. Rec. XVII, ib, 1905. Fixes type. 



Meyrick, Gen. Ins. C, 17, 1910. 



Id., Wagner's Lep. Cat. pars 17, 26, 1913. 

 Front sometimes with a tuft of scales. Ocelli absent. Palpi moderate, 

 slender, oblique or upturned. Primaries bifid, cleft about two-fifths; vein 

 Cu, from near angle, Cu^ and M^ connate or stalked, R„ and R^ stalked, 

 Rj absent. Secondaries trifid, Cu., from near middle of cell, Cu^ and M 

 connate or stalked. (See pi. XLVIII, fig. 8.) 



This genus has previously been recorded only from the Old 

 World but putnilio is certainly a true Marasmarcha. We are reassured 

 in this conclusion by the fact that Mr. Meyrick has recently com- 

 municated to us by lei tor the same opinion, intlependently reached. 



1. Marasmarcha pumilio Zeller. Pi. XLII, fig. 7. PI. XLIX, fig. 



13, 

 Mhncseoptilus pumilio Zeller, Verb. z.-b. Ges. Wien, XXIII, 324, 1873. 

 Marasmarcha liophancs Meyrick, Trans. Ent. .Soc. Lond. 1886, 19. 



Id., Gen. Ins. C, 18, pi. fig. 15, 1910. 

 StcHoptilia pumilio Fernald, Smith'sList Lep. N. A. 87, 1891. 



Id., Pter. N. A. 58, 1898. 



Id., Bull. 52 U. S. N. M. 447, 1902. 



Mejrick, Gen. Ins. C, 18, 1910. 



Id., Wagner's Lep. Cat. pars 17, 28, 1913. 



Barnes & McDunnough, Check List 151, 1917. 

 ixllimaescpptiliis gilvidorsis Hedmann (not Zcll.), Stett. ent. Zeit. LVII, 8, 1896 



(in part, fide Wlsm.). 

 Stenopiilia ? pumilio Walsingham, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1897, 58. 

 griscodactylus Pagenstecher, Zoologica XXIX, 240, 1900 {fide Mey- 

 rick). 

 Head light brown, conocoloroiis with anterior half of thorax. Antennae 

 with a dark line above. Palpi slender, second joint oblique, third porrect, the 

 sides dark. Posterior half of thorax and abdomen pale yellow, the latter be- 

 coming more brownish behind. Abdomen with a brown dorsal and paired ven- 

 tral lines, inconspicuous, and several others very faint. Fore and middle legs 

 white, striped with brown inside; hind pair whitish, brown without. 



