MARATHYSSA, 89 
with brown except in submedian interspace; a slight discoidal 
spot, indistinct medial line and postmedial and subterminal black 
strie at vein 2 and inner margin; cilia ochreous white at base, 
rufous at tips; the underside with large blackish discoidal spot, 
the medial and postmedial lines more distinct, a diffused subter- 
minal band and terminal series of small black lunules. 
©. Fore wing with red-brown band before the antemedial line. 
Hab. Stxuim, 1800' (Dudgeon), 1 gS type; Mapras, Nilgiris, 
Coonoor (Lindsay), 1 2. 
B. Palpi with the ard joint moderate. 
a. Hind wing with bright rufous patch on termen and cilia 
at vein 2...... poonoodaaadondnadopEs osodonctoonisosceseoneannoanasode basalis. 
6, Hind wing without rufous patch on termen and cilia at 
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6301. Marathyssa basalis. 
Marathyssa basalis, Wk. xxxiiii. 1034 (1865), 
Marasmalus ventilator, Grote, Trans. Am, Ent. Soe. iv, p. 89 (1872); 
Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 289. 
3. Head and thorax white mixed with fiery red and red-brown ; 
pectus and legs white, the tibizs and tarsi banded with blackish ; 
abdomen white mixed with red-brown and black, the basal segments 
with white subdorsal streaks and segmental lines. Fore wing white 
suffused with red-brown, the costal area to beyond middle and the 
submedian fold whiter; subbasal line represented by a white striga 
from costa defined on outer side by black and with fiery red and 
black spot defined by white beyond it; antemedial line indistinctly 
double, blackish filled in with white, interrupted, strongly excurved ; 
Fig. 34.—Marathyssa basalis, $. }. 
traces of a curved brown medial line interrupted in cell and sub- 
median fold; reniform white with blackish points in upper and 
lower extremities, narrow, the upper extremity rather produced ; 
postmedial line indistinctly dceuble filled in with white, bent 
outwards below costa, oblique to vein 6 where it is angled, then 
inwardly oblique and sinuous, another whitish line defined on outer 
side by some black scales beyond it, forming a triangular spot on 
costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved; subterminal line white, 
excurved at vein 7 and middle and with some black suffusion 
before it, Incurved at discal fold ; a terminal series of black striz ; 
cilia white with black spots at base from apex to vein 3 and black 
