376 Mr. A. E. Wileggan on New and Unrecorded Species 
Genus MARASMIA. 
Lederer, Wien. ent. Mon., 1863, p. 385; Hampson, 
Fauna Brit. India, Moths, iv, p. 275 (1896). 
393. 
Marasmia venilialis. 
Marasmia venilialis, Walk., Cat. Lep. Het., xvii, p. 378 
(1859). 
Botys ruralis, Walk., Cat. Lep. Het., xviii, p. 666. 
Botys marisalis, Walk., Cat. Lep. Het., xviii, p. 717. 
Marasmia cicatricosa, Led., Wien. ent. Mon., 1863, p. 386, 
pl. xu, fig. 8. 
Lasiacme mimica, Warr., Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. (6), 
RVI, scl ve 
Marasmia venilialis, Hampson, Fauna Brit. India, Moths, 
iv, p. 276. 
Two male specimens taken at Ibusuki, Satsuma, and 
Sakurajima, Osumi, in July, 1895. These are referable to 
the marisalis form. 
Hitherto unrecorded from Japan. 
Local distribution. KYUSHU. 
General distribution. W. and 8. AFrica; throughout 
InpIA, CEYLON and BurMa; BORNEO; AUSTRALIA; 
SoLomon IsLANDS; Fist; JAPAN. 
Collection numbers, 1728 and 17381. 
394. 
Marisnia limbalis, sp. n. 
¢. Forewings purplish brown suffused with greyish ; ante- and 
postmedial lines darker, the former slightly curved towards the 
costa and broadly bordered inwardly with pale brownish, the latter 
turned inward to lower angle of the cell, thence direct to the inner 
margin, bordered outwardly with pale brownish. Hindwings have 
the basal two-thirds pale brownish, outer third purplish brown 
suffused with greyish; two darker transverse lines, the first from 
discal lunule to anal angle and the second united with the purplish 
brown border at the costa and below the middle. Underside shining 
fuscous with traces of the transverse lines. 
Expanse 16 mm. 
Male type from Yoshino, Yamato, June, 1895. 
