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with the base aud costa tinged with brown, a black discoidal 

 point, the medial band continued obliquely to costa towards which 

 it is narrow and with oblique brownish striga from its lower ex- 

 tremity to vein 1, the terminal area fuscous brown to near tornus, 

 extending on costa to near the medial band and leaving some 

 yellowish white on termen at apex. 



Ab. 1. Hind wing aud underside whiter. — Punjab. 



Hah. Japan, Hakodate {Leech), 1 $ , Oiwake (Fryer), 2 S , Nikko 

 (Araries), 3 5 , Tokio (Penton), 2 5 , Yokohama {Jonas, Leech), 2 '^. 

 type ; W. China, Chang-yang {Pratt), 1 J ; Punjab, Thundiani 

 {Yerhury), 1 c? . Exp. 98-116 millim. 



7267. Ephesia circe. (Plate CC. fig. 4.) 



Catocala circc, Sf reck. Lep. Ehop. & Het. p. 121 (1876) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. 

 N. Am. p. 338. 



S • Head and thorax grey mixed with black and some brown ; 

 palpi with the 2nd joint mostly black at sides ; frons and vertex 

 of head with lateral black bars ; tegulae with diffused black lines 

 near base, at middle and tips; patagia edged with difPused black; 

 pectus ochreous white ; tibiae and tarsi banded with black; abdo- 

 men ochreous brown, the crests and anal tuft with some fuscous, 

 the ventral surface ochreous white. Fore wing grey-white thickly 

 irrorated and in parts suffused with fuscous brown ; subbasal line 

 black, angled outwards below costa and ending at submedian fold ; 

 a black streak above base of vein 1 and streak below median 

 nervure before the antemedial line, which is double, oblique, waved, 

 strongly angled inwards on vein 1 ; a whitish patch in and above 

 cell before the reniform, which is elliptical and obscurely defined by 

 white ; an oblique black bar from middle of costa and faint highly 

 dentate line beyond the cell between veins 7 and 2 ; a whitish and 

 ochreous brown spot defined by black below end of cell ; post- 

 medial line black, indistinctly double towards costa, bent outwards 

 below costa, then oblique and acutely angled outwards above and 

 below vein 5, then retracted and with whitish and ochreous brown 

 patch beyond it above vein 3, angled outwards above vein 2, biden- 

 tate at submedian fold and strongly angled inwards at vein 1 ; 

 subterminal line whitish slightly defined on each side by fuscous, 

 angled outwards below vein 7, then dentate; a series of black 

 points before termen defined on outer side by white. Hind wing 

 crimson-red, the costal area to beyond middle, the hair in sub- 

 median fold and on inner margin brownish ; medial band black, 

 sinuous, oblique to vein 4, slight below vein 1 and not reaching inner 

 margin ; a black terminal band broad at costa and narrowing to a 

 point near tornus, its inner edge curved, sinuous below vein 4; the 

 extreme apex pale red ; cilia white mixed with ochreous brown 

 and chequered with fuscous. Underside of fore wing fuscous, a 

 black medial band broad and oblique to below vein 2 then narrow, 

 a wedge-shaped pale crimson patch before it and curved band 



