MAEATHYSSA. 89 



with brown except in submedian interspace ; a slight discoidal 

 spot, indistinct medial line and postmediai and subterminal black 

 striae at vein 2 and inner margin ; cilia ochreons white at base, 

 rufous at tips ; the underside with large blackish discoidal spot, 

 the medial and postmediai lines more distinct, a diffused subter- 

 minal band and terminal series of small black lunules. 



2 . Fore wing with red-brown band before the antemedial line. 

 JJnb. SiKHiM, 1800' {Dudgeon), 1 J type; Madeas, Kilgiris, 

 Coonoor {Lindsay), 1 $ . 



B, Palpi with the Srd joint moderate. 



a. Hind wing with bright rufous patch on termen and cih'a 



at vein 2 hasalis. 



b. Hind wing without rufous patch on termen and cilia at 



vein 2 angustipennis. 



6301. Marathyssa basalis. 



Marathyssa basahs, Wlk. sxxiiii. 1034 (18G5). 



Marasmalus ventilcdor, Grote, Trans. Am. Eiit. Soc. iv. p. 89 (1872) ; 

 Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 239. 



6 ■ Head and thorax white mixed with fiery red and red-brown ; 

 pectus and legs white, the tibia; and tarsi banded with blackish ; 

 abdomen white mixed with red-brown and black, the basal segments 

 with white subdorsal streaks and segmental lines. Pore 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 witli fiery red and 

 black spot defined by white beyond it ; antemedial line indistinctly 

 douhle, blackish filled in with white, interrupted, strongly escurved ; 



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Fig. 34. — Marathyssa basalis, i^ . {, 



traces of a curved brown medial line interrupted in cell and sub- 

 median fold I reuiform white with blackish points in upper and 

 low^er extremities, narrow, the upper extremity rather produced ; 

 postmediai line indistinctly double filled in with white, bent 

 outwards below costa, obliciue 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 si;ffusion 

 before it, incurved at discal fold ; a terminal series of black strite ; 

 cilia white with black spots at base from apex to vein 3 and black 



