CATOCALA. EPHESIA. 143 



with ved-brown except at the band, a blackish discoidal lunule 

 confluent with the medial band. 



Hah. U.S.A., Ohio, 1 J , 2 5 type, Illinois, Nebraska, Kansas 

 {Snow), 1 c? , 1 $ . Exp, 46-52 millim. 



7261. Catocala nuptialis. (Plate CC. tig. 2.) 



Catocala nuptialis, Wlk. x. 1206 (1857) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. 



p. 335. 

 Catocala myrrlia, Streck. Lep. Rhop. & Het. p. 97, pi. xi. f. 12 (1874). 



Head and tegulae rufous, the latter deep rufous at tips ; thorax 

 grey suffused with rufous ; pectus brown and grey ; legs red-brown, 

 the tarsi ringed with white ; abdomen rufous, the ventral surface 

 grey-brown. Fore wing grey suffused with red-brown and slightly 

 irrorated with dark brown ; subbasal line black, exciirved below 

 costa and ending at submedian fold ; antemedial line indistinctly 

 double, brown filled in with whitish, obliqiiely curved and slightly 

 sinuous, the outer line strong at costa ; reniform a black-brown 

 lunule with its upper extremity produced to a point; an oblique 

 brown striga above it from costa ; a brown spot defined by some 

 blackish scales below end of cell ; postmedial line slight, black- 

 brown, angled inwards below costa, then bent outwards, oblique 

 and slightly sinuous to above vein 5, where it is angled outwards, 

 then inwardly oblique and minutely waved, a rufous band beyond 

 it defined by the rather diffused grey subterminal line which is 

 obliquely incurved from costa to below vein 6 ; the terminal area 

 suffused with rufous except at costa ; a series of slight dark strife 

 before termen. Hind wing golden yellow ; an oblique black medial 

 band excurved below vein 5 and ending at vein 1 ; a broad terminal 

 black band narrowit)g to tornus, its inner edge slightly incurved at 

 vein 2 ; the termen very narrowly yellow towards apex, then with 

 slight yellow marks in the interspaces ; cilia brown at base, Avhitish 

 at tips. Underside of fore wing with the basal half yellow, the 

 costa brown, an oblique brown antemedial shade, an oblique black 

 medial band narrowing to inner margin followed by a rather narrow 

 pale yellowish band arising just below costa, the terminal area 

 broadly black-brown, its inner edge curved ; hind wing as above 

 but the costal area whitish thickly irrorated with red-brown, the 

 medial band arising at subcostal nervure. 



Hah. TJ.^.A.. (Douhleday), I 2 type, Illinois, Nebraska to Texas, 

 Kansas (Snow), 4 (5 , 1 $ , Colorado. Kvp. 52-56 millim. 



Genus EPHESIA. 



Type. 



Ephesia, Hiibu. Verz. p. 278 (1827) fulminea. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to about 

 middle of frons and rather broadly scaled, the 3rd moderate ; frons smooth, 

 with tuft of hair ; eyes large, round ; antennte of male ciliated ; thorax typi- 

 cally clothed with hair and hair-like scales, the pro- and metathorax with 

 spreading crests, the mesothorax with small paired crests; tibiiie moderately 



