152 NOCTUID^. 



beyoud it from below costa to veiu 2, tbe termon grey, broadly 

 towards apex ; hind wing with the costal area white irrorated with 

 brown to the terminal band, the medial band ending above vein 1. 

 Hah. U.S.A., Texas, 1 S . Exp. 74 millim. 



7268. Ephesia coccinata. (Plate CC. fig. 5.) 



Caiocala coccinata, Grote, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. iv. p. 6 (1872) ; Streck. 

 Lep. Ehop. & Het. p. 21, pi. 3. f. 9; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 338. 

 Catocala sinuosa, Grote, Bull. Brooklyn Ent. Soc. i. p. 77 (1879). 



Grey-white mixed with some brown and black ; palpi with black 

 patch at side of 2nd joint ; frons with lateral black bars ; tcgulae 

 with two black medial lines, the prothorax with red-brown bar, 

 the patagia with black line near edges, the metathoracic crest 

 tinged with rufous ; pectus and legs white and brown, the iivcsi 

 banded blackish and white ; abdomen grey-brown tinged with 

 rufous, the ventral stirface brownish white. Fore wing bluish 

 grey mixed with some whitish and irrorated with black, the veins 

 streaked with black ; subbasal line black, angled outwards below 

 costa and ending at submedian fold ; antemedial line rather 

 indistinctly double, black, oblique and sinuous to submedian fold, 

 then strongly angled inwards at vein ] ; reniform with its centre 

 defined by brown and with whitish annulus defined on outer side 

 by black and somewhat dentate, an oblique dark bar above it from 

 costa ; a rather triangular white spot tinged with brown and 

 defined by black below end of cell ; postmedial line black slightly 

 defined on outer side by whitish, bent outwards below costa, then 

 oblique, very acutely angled outwards above and below vein 5, 

 angled outwards above vein 2, bidentate at submedian fold, then 

 with black streak on it and angled inwards at vein 1 to near ante- 

 medial line, a whitish patch tinged with red-brown beyond it between 

 veins 4 and 3 ; subterminal line whitish defined on outer side by 

 fuscous, dentate, oblique from costa to below vein 6; an oblique dark 

 shade from termen below apex and a diffused dark streak at vein 2, 

 the veins of terminal area finely streaked with black ; a series of 

 black points defined on outer side by whitish before termen. Hind 

 wing bright crimson, the hair on inner margin grey-brown, some 

 dark hair in base of submedian fold; medial band black, broad, 

 obliquely curved, its inner edge incurved at submedian fold and its 

 outer edge excurved at vein 5, terminating at vein 1 towards 

 which it narrows; terminal area black, narrowing to tornus, its 

 inner edge incurved slightly at vein 2; cilia brown at base, white 

 at tips, almost wholly white towards apex. Underside of fore 

 wing crimson, some g'rey-brown at base, an oblique black-brown 

 shade from costa before middle to the oblique black postmedial 

 band at vein 1, the postmedial area with white spot at costa, the 

 terminal area black, the apex and termen to vein 2 sufi'used with 

 grey, cilia chequered white and brown ; hind wdng as above but 

 the basal costal area pale grey-brown, the medial band extending 

 almost to inner margin where it is angled inwards, the narrow 



