. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. MARATHYSSA. 91 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,
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. MARATHYSSA. 91 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 ; {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 reniform 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 thora
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