EPnEsiA. 157 



11th somite with a reddish limule. Food-plants : "Wild Cherry, 

 Plum, Dog-wood and Live Oak. 



7273. Ephesia verilliana. (Plate CC. fig. 10.) 



Catocala verilliana, Grote, Can. Ent. vii. p. 185 (1875) ; Smith, Cat. Noet. 



N. Am. p. 337. 

 Catocala votiva, Hulst, Bull. Brooklyn Ent. Soc. vii. p. 41 (1884). 



Head and thorax brown mixed with white and some black ; palpi 

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

 bars ; vertex of head with V-shaped black mark ; tcgulie with 

 brown medial line and blackish tips, the prothorax with narrow 

 dark band, the patagia with black line near edges ; pectus whitish 

 tinged with brown ; the legs irrorated with blackish, the tarsi black 

 ringed with white ; abdomen reddish ochreoiis, the basal crests 

 brown and grey, the extremity tinged with brown, the ventral 

 surface white irrorated with ochreous brown. Pore wing pale grey 

 tinged in parts with red-brow]i and irrorated with dark brown ; 

 subbasal line black, angled outwards below costa and ending at 

 submedian fold, a diffused black fascia beyond it below the cell to 

 the antcmedial line, which is double filled in with whitish, the inner 

 line angled inwards below costa and at median nervure, the outer 

 line strong and oblique to submedian fold, incurved at vein 1 ; 

 reniform with its centre defined by brown and white annulus 

 defined by brown, an oblique blackish bar above it from costa; a 

 small rounded whitish spot defined by black below end of cell ; a 

 faint oblique brown line beyond the cell from vein 6 to submedian 

 fold ; postmedial line black defined on outer side by rufous, bent 

 outwards below costa, then obliquely downcurved, acutely angled 

 outwards above and below vein 5, slightly excurved above and 

 below vein 2, acutely angled inwards and with hlack streak on it 

 above vein 1 ; subterminal line indistinct, pale, angled inwards 

 below costa, then oblique to below vein 6, then waved; a slight 

 oblique brown shade from termen below apex ; a series of black 

 stria? slightly defined on outer side by whitish before termen ; cilia 

 with dark line near base and intersected with blackish at the veins. 

 Hind wing pale scarlet, the hair on inner mai'gin tinged with brown, 

 some brownish hair in base of submedian fold; a narrow oblique 

 black medial band, excurved beyond lower angle of cell and ending 

 at vein 1 , a dark point between it and inner margin; a terminal 

 black band, narrowing to tornus, the termen narrowly red towards 

 apex and in submedian interspace and with series of small spots 

 between veins 6 and 2; cilia white, chequered with black-brown 

 between veins 6 and 2 and at vein 1 . Underside of fore wing pale 

 scarlet, an oblique brown shade from costa before middle to vein 1, 

 above which it extends to near base and to the oblique postmedial 

 black band narrowing to inner margin and with its outer edge 

 excurved at vein 5, terminal area black-brown shading to grey 

 irrorated with brown towards costa and apical part of termen ; hind 

 wing as above but the basal costal area and the postmedial area to 



