88 .  NOCTUID®. 
Genus MARATHYSSA. 
Type. 
Marathyssa, Wik. xxxili. 1033 (18G5) ...........0.000-seecereree basalis. 
Marasmalus, Grote, Trans. Am. Ent. Soe. iv. p. 89 (1872)... basalis, 
Schazama, Scbhaus, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus, xxx. p. 108 (1906)... angustipennis. 
Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned, the 2nd joint reaching 
about to vertex of head and nioderately scaled, the 3rd typicalls moderate ; 
frons smooth, with large tuft of scales; eyes large, round ; antenne with tuft 
ofscales on basal joint, of male typically bipectinate with rather long branches, 
the apical part ciliated; build slender; thorax clothed almost entirely with 
scales, the prothorax with speading crest, the metathorax with paired 
crests; tibi slightly fringed with hair; abdomen with dorsal crests on 
basal and terminal segments, the latter typically large, lateral tufts of 
hair and small paired anal tufts. Pore wing narrow, the apex somewhat 
produced, the termen obliquely curved and not crenulate; veins 3 and 5 from 
near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to 
form the areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of 
cell; 5 fully developed from above angle; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anasto- 
mosing with the cell near base only. 
Secr. I. Antenne of male bipectinate with moderate branches to beyond 
middle, the «pex ciliated ; abdomen with the crests on terminal segments 
large. 
A. Palpi with the 3rd joint very long. 
6300. Marathyssa harmonica. 
Eutelia harmonica, Hmpsn. J. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soe. xi. p- 403, pl. A. f. 4 
(1897). 
3. Head, thorax, and abdomen ochreous white mixed with 
dark brown; frontal tuft and the tuft on basal joint of antenne 
black-brown ; tegule with pair of black spots at middle; tarsi 
brown with pale rings; ventral surface of abdomen red-brown, 
Fig. 33.— Marathyssa harmonica, d. +. 
Fore wing ochreous white tinged with red-brown; a black patch 
on costa before the dentate brown antemedial line: a black 
discoidal Spot ; medial line oblique from costa to reniform, inwardly 
oblique and somewhat dentate from lower angle of cell to inner 
margin; postmedial line double, bent outwards below costa. then 
minutely dentate, exeurved to vein 4, then oblique, some oblique 
white striae beyond it from costa ; subterminal line formed of 
slight dentate ochreous marks defined by brown; a fine waved 
black terminal line and ochreous line at base of cilia, Hind 
wing ochreous white tinged with brown, the terminal area suffused 
