276 PYRALID^E. 



SECT. I. (Marasmia). Fore wiDg of male with a very large tuft of 

 loog flattened leaden-coloured scales on upperside from below 

 middle of costa, extending across the cell, and covering a- 

 vesicular fold in end of cell. 



815. Marasmia venilialis, Wlk. Cat. xvii, p. 373 ; C.fy 8. no. 4119. 

 Botys ruralis, Wlk. Cat. xviii, p. 666 ; C. $ S. no. 4108. 

 Botys marisalis, Wlk. Cat. xviii, p. 717. 

 Marasmia cicatricosa, Led. Wien. ent. Mon. 1863, p. 386, pi. 12 r 



%. 8. 

 Lasiacme mimica, Wart: A. M. N. H. (6) xviii, p. 177. 



Ochreous ; palpi black, white below ; head and collar mostly 

 fuscous ; abdomen tinged with white towards extremity, two black 



spots on terminal segment, the 

 anal tuft striped with white. 

 Fore wing with the costal and 

 outer areas broadly fuscous, the 

 latter with curved inner edge 

 often expanding on inner area ; 

 a curved antemedial dark line ; 

 Fig.lW.-MarasmiavenUialis,^. |. a discocellular black lunule, in 



male hidden by the tuft of 



scales ; a series of black specks on medial part of costa ; a post- 

 medial line nearly straight from costa to vein 2, where it some- 

 times touches the expanded part of the marginal fuscous area, 

 then retracted to below angle of cell. Hind wing with oblique 

 line from costa before middle to anal angle ; a postmedial line from 

 costa to vein 3 ; the marginal area fuscous, tapering to anal angle, 

 expanded on vein 2, and nearly touching the postmedial line. 

 Both wings with dark line through the cilia, which are white at tips. 

 Hob. "W". and S. Africa ; throughout India, Ceylon, and Burma ; 

 Borneo ; Australia ; Solomons ; Fiji. Exp. 16-20 millim. 



4816. Marasmia latimarginalis, Hmpsn. III. Het. viii, p. 138, pi. 156, 



fig. 15. 

 Lasiacme pilosa, Warr. A. M. N. H. (6) xviii, p. 176. 



Differs from bilinealis in the whole fore wing being purplish 

 brown except a pale band beyond the postmedial line from vein 5 

 to inner margin and extending into its sinus on inner side. Hind 

 wing with the postmedial line nearer the cell ; the whole outer 

 third of wing purplish brown, narrowing towards inner margin. 



Hob. Sikhim ; Khasis ; Nilgiris. Exp. 22 millim. 



SECT. II. (Epimima). Fore wing of male without the fold and 



tuft below costa. 

 A. Maxillary palpi filiform ; fore wing short. 



4817. Marasmia trebiusalis, Wlk. Cat. xviii, p. 718. 

 Epimima stereogona, Meyr. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1886, p. 236. 

 Asopia socialis, Wlk. Cat. xxxiv, p. 1306. 



Differs from venilialis in the marginal fuscous area being much 



