■EPHESIA. 155 



vein 5, cilia white intersected with brown at veins 6 to 2, brown 

 towards tornus. 



Hind tibiae with 2 spines between the medial and terminal spurs. 



$ . Fore wing with the spot below end of cell connected by a 

 sinus with the postmedial line. 



I/ab. U.S.A., Colorado, Arizona, Cochise Co., Palmerlee in Coll. 

 W. Barnes. Kty. d" 62, $ 70 miliim. 



7271. Ephesia herodias. (Plate CC. fig. 8.) 



Catocala herodias, Stveck. Lep. Ehop. & Ilet. p. 121 (1876) ; Smith, Cat. 

 Noct. N. Am. p. 338. 



cJ . Head and thorax red-brown mixed with grey, the meta- 

 thoraeic crest darker; pectus and legs whitish mixed wath red- 

 brown ; abdomen pale rufous, the hairy crests on basal segments 

 darker at tips, the ventral surface whitish tinged with rufous. 

 Fore wing grey suflfused with reddish brown and slightly irrorated 

 "with black ; antemedial line very indistinct and rather diffused, 

 oblique to submedian fold ; reniform with very indistinct wliitish 

 annulus and some whitish in centre ; postmedial line very indistinct, 

 dark, bent outwards below costa, oblique to vein 6, strongly angled 

 outwards above and below vein 5, then strongly dentate and very 

 strongly angled inwards on vein 1 ; the veins of terminal half 

 with slight daik streaks ; subterminal line absent. Hind wing pale 

 crimson ; a ruther narrow black medial band, oblique towards costa 

 and expanding below the costa, excurved at veins 6 and 1 and 

 angled inwards above inner margin ; a terminal black band 

 narrowing to tornus, its inner edge slightly incurved at vein 2 ; 

 the termen narrowly white tinged with crimson towards apex and 

 in submedian interspace ; cilia white, chequered with brown at 

 veins 6 to 2 and brown towards tornus. Underside of fore wing 

 white tiiiged with crimson, the costa brown, an oblique difl'used 

 brown antemedial shade from costa before middle to the obliquely 

 curved medial black band at inner margin, the latter expanding at 

 middle, the terminal area brown with curved inner edge, cilia 

 chequered white and blackish ; hind wing with the basal costal 

 area to discal fold and the postmedial area to vein 4 whitish 

 irrorated with red-brown. 



Hah. U.S.A., New York, 1 J- Exii. 60 miliim. 



7272. Ephesia ultronia. (Plate CC. fig. 9.) 



Eunetis ultronia, Hilbn. Zutr. ii. y. L'G, ff. S47-8 (1818) ; Pactarcl, Guide fo 

 Study of Insects, p. 317, pi. -viii. f. 4 ; Street. Lep. Ehop. & Het. p. 73, 

 pi. ix. f. 7 ; Smith, CiA: Noct. N. Am. p. ?38. 



Catocala adriana, H. Edw. Eull. Erookl.yn Ent. Soc. iii. p. 57 (18S0). 



Catocala celia, H. Edw. Bull. Brooklyn Ent. Soc. iii. p. 68 (1880). 



Catocala mopsa, H. Edw. Bull. Brooklyn Ent. Soc. iii. p. 68 (1880). 



Catocala lucinda, Beutenm. Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist, xxiii. p. 040 

 (1907). 



Head and thorax bright rufous mixed with some grey-white; 

 frons with blackish lateral bars ; tegulse with dark medial line, the 



