90 NOCTUIDiE. 



tips at apex and middle. Hind wing white suffused with reddish 

 brown ; an indistinct interrupted waved white subterminal line 

 with a fiery red patch beyond it and on base of cilia at vein 2, 

 then becoming terminal ; a white striga at inner margin before 

 toraus with black striga before it and patch beyond it; a terminal 

 series of dark striae from apex to vein 2 ; cilia Avhite with a brown 

 line through them ; the underside white irrorated with brown and 

 black, a black discoidal spot and diffused medial, postmedial, and 

 subterminal bands. 



Hah. Canada; U.S.A., 2 J, Grote Coll., Massachusetts, New 

 York and south to Texas and west to Nebraska, Kansas, and 

 Colorado ; hab. ign. 2 6 type. Exi). 36 millim, 



6302, Marathyssa angnstipennis. (Plate CLXXVI. fig. 8.) 



Schazama angustipennis, Schaus, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mas. xsx. p. 109 (IQOfi). 



S . Head grey with some rufous between antennse ; tegulse grey 

 with some rufous at tips ; thorax rufous with diffused black bands 

 at middle and behind ; abdomen grey tinged with red-brown, 

 Poi^e wing grey- white irrorated with brown, the costal, inner, and 

 terminal areas suffused with red-brown, leaving thinly scaled 

 whitish fasciae in and beyond cell and in submedian interspace ; 

 subbasal line represented by a curved black striga from costa, the 

 anteroedial line by a black point on costa and oblique black bar 

 from submedian fold to inner margin ; a small black spot defined 

 by whitish at upper angle of cell ; postmedial line double towards 

 costa, excurved below costa then single and obsolescent, bent 

 inwards at vein 5 and at lower angle of ceil to origin of vein 2, 

 then obliquely incurved to inner margin where there is a small 

 blackish spot, some whitish streaks beyond it between the veins of 

 costal area. Hind wing white slightly irrorated with pale brown 

 and with wedge-shaped brownish streaks on terminal area at 

 discal and submedian folds and tornus ; a fine blackish terminal 

 line ; cilia rufous with a dark line through them from apex to 

 submedian fold, then whitish ; the underside white sparsely irro- 

 rated with black, a blackish discoidal spot and postmedial series of 

 minute black streaks on the veins. 



Hah. Brazil, Castro Parana, in Coll. D. Jones. Exp. 32 millim. 



Sect. IT. Antenna of male serrate and fasciculate ; abdomen with the crests 

 on terminal segments sliglit. 



6303. Marathyssa inficita. 



EiitcUa injicita, Wlk. xxxiii. 818 (1865) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 239. 

 Marasmalus hidrio, Grote, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. iv. p. 297 (1872). 



Head and thorax brown mixed with grey, the frons, ridge of scales 

 between antennae, tips of tegulse and base of patagia fiery red ; tarsi 

 brown ringed with white ; abdomen grey with dorsal brown and 



