10 



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abdomen with large dor.siil crests except on terminal segnienls. Fore wing 

 with the apex rectangular, the terinen evenly curved, crenulate ; veins 3 and 

 6 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 

 8 to form the areole ; 11 trom cell. Hind wing with the cell nearly half the 

 length of wing ; veins 3, 4 from angle; 5 fully developed from just above 

 angle ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



7128. Euparthenos nubilis. 



Parthenos nuhilis, Hiibn. Samml. Ex. Schmett. ii. Lep. iv. Noct. iii. (1816) ; 



Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 3M0. 

 Parthenos apache, Poling, Can. Enfc. xxxiii. p. 129 (1901). 

 Catocala fasc-iaia, Eeutenm. Bull. Am. Mus. IN'at. Hist, xxiii. p. 150 (1907). 



Head and thorax red-brown mixed with grej' ; tegulae and pro- 

 thoracic crest with dark lines defhied by white at tips ; patagia 

 with white lines at middle and tips ; tarsi dark brown ringed with 

 whitish ; abdomen rufous, the crests tipped with grey, the ventral 

 surface Avhitish tinged with rufous. Foi'e wing brownish grey 

 srifFused with fuscous brown; subbasal line double, blackish, 

 dentate, from costa to vein 1 ; antcmedial line double, blackish 



Fig. 2. — Euparthenos nubilh, (^ . \. 



filled in with whitish, oblique, sinuous, angled iuAvards at vein 1, 

 excurved above inner margin along which it is bent inwards and 

 then forming a hoop-shaped mark enclosing a brown spot on the 

 margin ; a black point in middle of cell ; reniform obscurely 

 defined by blackish, a narrow oblique lunule often with its lower 

 point much dilated ; postmedial line very indistinctly double, filled 

 in with white towards costa, oblique and sinuous to vein 4, below 



