BrHESIA, 153 



postmedial area whitish to vein 5, cilia ^vhite chequered •with 

 black between veins 6 and 2. 



Ab. 1. siniiosa. Hind wing with the medial band reduced to a 

 line arising at vein 6, excurved at vein 5 and ending above vein 1, 

 no brown suffusion on basal area ; underside of fore wing Avith the 

 crimson area much larger, the medial black band reduced to a line. 



Ilah. Canada, Manitoba, Westbourue ( Wallis), 3 J , 1 § ; U.S.A., 

 Eastern and Central States, New York, 3 J, Illinois, Florida, 1 J 

 type siiiuosa. Exp. 70-74 niillim. 



Larva. Ooquillet, Papilio, i. p. 66. 



Dark grey ; 8th somite with a protuberance, the 11th somite 

 with two slight protuberances ; head grey edged with black. Food- 

 plant, Oak. 



7269. Ephesia Ophelia. (Plate CC. fig. 6.) 



Catocala o-phclia, H. Edw. Bull. Brooklyn Ent. Soc. ii. p. 95 (1880) ; 



Smitb, Oat. No(;t. N. Am. p. 337. 

 Catocala dollii, Beutenm. Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist, xxiii. p. 940 (1907). 



J . Head and thorax red-brown mixed with grey-white ; frons 

 dark brown at sides ; tegula3 with black Hues near base and at 

 tips, a red-brown medial shade ; patagia with some black scales 

 near upper edge; pectus white; legs whitish irrorated with red- 

 brown, the fore tibise with black band near extremity, the tarsi 

 ringed with white; abdomen pale fulvous brown, the crests tipped 

 with white. Fore wing violaceous grey irronited with red-brown ; 

 subbasal line blackish, angled outwards below costa and ending at 

 submedian fold ; antemedial line double, tilled in with grey and 

 with some red-brown suffusion before it, the outer line black and 

 strong from costa to submedian fold, obliquely excurved from costa 

 to submedian fold, then sinuous ; reniform with red-brown centre 

 and whitish annulus slightly defined by brown, its outer edge 

 dentate ; a blackish bar from middle of costa and elliptical whitish 

 spot defined by black below end of cell; postmedial line black with 

 a rufous band beyond it except at costa and inner margin, bent 

 outwards below costa, then oblique, acutely angled outwards above 

 and below vein 5 and running inwards as a streak above vein 1 ; 

 subterminal line grey-white defined on outer side by brown, 

 dentate, oblique from costa to below vein 6 ; a series of black 

 striae before termen with grey beyond them ; the veins of terminal 

 area with slight dark streaks. Hind Aving crimson, the base and 

 inner margin with some reddish brown hair ; medial band black, 

 obliquely excurved from costa to submedian fold, then bent 

 inwards and ending at vein 1 ; terminal area black narrowing to 

 near tornus where it terminates, its inner edge sinuous, some 

 crimson beyond it on termen ; cilia white tinged with crimson, 

 chequered with brown between veins 6 and 2 and brown towards 

 tornus. Underside of fore wing fuscous brown with a purplish 

 gloss on terminal half, an oblique pale crimson medial patch from 

 subcostal nervure to vein 2, postmedial band Avhitish at costa, 



