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Genus MARATHYSSA. 



Type, 



il/«rfl//«?/s.sff, Wlk. xxxiii. 1033 (I860) hasalis. 



Marasmalus, Grote, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. iv. p. 89 (187^)... hamlis. 

 Sckasama, Sebaus, Pr. U.S. Wat. Mus. xxx. p. 108(19U(>) ... anguaiipennis. 



Proboscis fully deToloped ; palpi obliquely upturned, tlie 2nd joint reaching 

 about to -Nertex of head and moderately scaled, the 3rd typicalh moderate ; 

 frons smooth, with large luft of scales; e5'es large, round ; antennae with tul't 

 of scales on basal joint, of male typically bipeetinate with rather long branches, 

 the apical part ciliated; build slender; thorax clothed almost entirely with 

 scales, the protborax with speading crest, the metathorax with paired 

 crests; tibiae 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. Fore wiug narrow, the apex somewhat 

 produced, tlie 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 ; 0, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anasto- 

 mosing with the cell near base only. 



Sect. I. Antenn£e of male bipeetinate with moderate branches to beyond 

 middle, the npex ciliated ; abdomen with the crests on terminal segments 

 large. 

 A. Palpi with the 3rd joint very long. 



6300. Marathyssa harmonica. 



Eutelia harmonica, Hmpbn. J. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc. xi. p. 453, pi. A. f. 4 



(1897). 



J . Head, thorax, and abdomen ochreoiis white mixed with 

 dark brown ; frontal tuft and the tuft on basal joint of antennae 

 black-brown; tegnla? with pair of black spots at middle; tarsi 

 brown with pale rings ; ventral surface of abdomen red-brown. 



Fig. 33. — Marathyssa harmonica, d". j. 



Pore wing ochreous white tirtged with red-brown ; a black patch 

 on costa before the dentate brown antemedial line ; a black 

 discoidal spot ; medial line oblique from costa toreniform, inwardly 

 oblique and somewhat dentate from lower angle of cell to inner 

 margin; postmedial line double, bent outwards below costa, then 

 minutely dentate, excurved to vein 4, then oblique, some oblique 

 white strioe 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 



