. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Supplement. Moths. MAEATnYSSA. 89 with brown except in submedian interspace ; a slight discoidal s})ot, indistinct medial lino and postmedial and subterminal black strias at vein 2 and inner margin ; cilia ochreons white at base, rufous at tips ; the underside with large blackish discoidal spot, the medial and postmedial 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. JJab. SiKHiM, ]800' {Dudr/eon), 1 c? ^Jpe; Madius, Nilgiris,
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Supplement. Moths. MAEATnYSSA. 89 with brown except in submedian interspace ; a slight discoidal s})ot, indistinct medial lino and postmedial and subterminal black strias at vein 2 and inner margin ; cilia ochreons white at base, rufous at tips ; the underside with large blackish discoidal spot, the medial and postmedial 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. JJab. SiKHiM, ]800' {Dudr/eon), 1 c? ^Jpe; Madius, Nilgiris, Coonoor {Lindsay), 1 $ . B, Palpi with the 3rd joint moderate. a. Hind wing with bright rufous patch on termen and cilia at vein 2 hasalis. h. Hind wing without i-uibus patch on termen and cilia at vein 2 cniffusiijjcnnis. 630 ], Marathyssa basalis. MarathysHi. basalis, Wlk. xxxiiii. 1034(1865). Mcirasmaliis vcntilaiur, Grote, 'J'rans. Am. Ent. 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 tibioo and tarsi banded with blackish ; abdomen white mixed with red-brown and black, the basal segments with white subdorsal streaks and segmental lines. Fore wing white suffused with red-brown, the costal area to bejond middle and the submediau fold whiter; subbasai line represented by a white striga from costa defined on outer side by black and with fiery red and black spot defined by white beyond it; antemedial line indistinctly double, blackish filled in with white, interrupted, strongly excurvcd ;. \'my^J Fig. 34.—Marailnjssa bosalis, (^. \. traces of a curved brown medial line interrupted in cell and sub- median fold ; reuiform white with blackish points in upper and lower extremities, narrow, the upper extremity rather produced ; postmedial line indistinctly double filled in with white, bent outwards below costa, oblique to vein 6 where it is angled, then inwardly oblique and sinuous
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