MARATHYSSA. 



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red bands and slight black segmental bars, the ventral surface 

 fuscous mixed with grey. Fore wing purplish grey suffused with 

 brown ; some rufous suffusion before the antemedial line, which is 

 black, slightly waved and interrupted from costa to vein 1 and 



-F).g. 35. — Marathyssa inficita, ^^ . \. 



bent inwards to inner margin; the medial area with more or less 

 prominent whitish streaks except on costal area ; a small triangular 

 black spot defined by white at upper angle of cell ; postmedial 

 line indistinct, double, blackish filled in with white, interrupted at 

 discal and submedian folds, bent outwardsbelow costa, then sinuous, 

 some white points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line slight, 

 whitish, dentate, defined on inner side by an oblique rufous band 

 from costa to below vein 7; a terminal black-brown line; cilia 

 white with two slight brown lines through them and fuscous brown 

 patches at apex and middle. Hind wing white suffused with 

 brown especially on terminal area, the submedian fold whiter; 

 a blackish terminal line ; cilia white with a brown line through them 

 and fuscous patches at middle aud tornus ; the underside white 

 irrorated with brown, a large blackish discoidal spot and indistinct 

 diffused curved postmedial and subterminal lines. 



Uab. Canada ; U.S.A. {Douhleday, Grote), 5 c? , 4 5 type, south 

 to Texas and west to Nebraska, Kansas? and Colorado. Eay. 

 26-34 millim. 



Sect. III. Antennse of male ciliated. 



A. Abdomen with dorsal white spot on 4th segment ciincata. 



13. Abdomen without dorsal white spot on 4th segment. 



a. Fore wing witli wliite patches before and beyond the reiii- 



t'orm which is slight albidisca. 



b. Fore wing with ochreous patches before and beyond the 



renif orm which is well developed cisicUairix. 



6304. Marathyssa cuneata. 



Eutelia cuvcata, Saalm. Lep. Madag. p. 381, f. 179 (l'^91). 

 Kuielia cyanoiopha, Hmpsn. A. M, IN. H. (7) xvi. p. 384 (1905). 



J . Head and thorax rufous mixed with some whitish ; tegulse 

 with blackish medial line and dark tips ; metathorax with pair of 

 blue-black spots ; abdomen whitish dorsally suffused with rufous, 

 the 1st segment with pair of blue-black spots, the 4tb with dorsal 

 white spot. Fore wing rufous suffused with greyish ; the cell from 



