158 



NOCTTJIDiE. 



vein 5 wliifce irroratei with brown, a slight browa spot' on upper 

 discocellular, the terminal band shading to whitish irrorated with 

 brown towards costa and at termen, a fine dark terminal line, 



Ab. 1. votlva. Hind wing yellowish tinged with red. — IN'ew 

 Mexico, Arizona. 



Hah. U.S. A., Texas, 2 S tj^pe, Colorado, California ( WalsingJiam) , 

 1 d", Humbolt Co., 1 J , New Mexico, Albuquerqne (Oslar), 3 c? , 

 1 §, Arizona, Yavapai Co., Prescott {Kunze), 1 J*, 1 $. Exjp. 

 46-54 millim. 



Larva. Food-plant, Scrab Oak. 



*7274. Ephesia verneri. (Plate CC. fig. 11.) 



Catocala werneri, Biederman, Ent. News Philad. xx. p. 76 (1909). 

 Catonala beutenmullei'i, Barnes, Cau. Ent. xlii. p. 251 (1910). 



d . (beutenmullen.) Head and thorax pale blue-grey mixed with 

 red-brown ; palpi white mixed with red-brown ; frons with lateral 

 black bars ; antennae blackish and with a blackish line between their 

 bases ; tegulse with black lines near base and at tips and red-brown 

 band at middle ; patagia with some black scales on edges ; pectus and 

 legs white and brown, the tarsi black ringed with white ; abdomen 

 pale crimson, grey tinged with brown at base and extremity, the 

 ventral surface white tinged with red-brown. Pore wing pale 

 blue-grey tinged with red-brown and slightly irrorated with dark 

 brown; a black streak below base of cell; subbasal line black, 

 M^aved, from eosta to subraedian fold; antemedial line double, 

 blackish, filled in with white towards costa and with some red- 

 brown on its costal half, bent outwards towards costa, then oblique, 

 sinuous, and angled inwards at vein 1 ; reniform with whitish 

 annulus, its centre slightly defined by brown, its outer edge rather 

 irregular, an oblique black striga above it from costa ; a whitish 

 spot faintly defined by brown below end of cell ; postmedial line 

 blackish defined on outer side by whitish and with slight red-brown 

 band beyond it, strongly bent outwards below costa, then obliquely 

 downcurved, angled outwards above and below, vein 5, then in- 

 curved and slightly waved to submedian fold, and very strongly 

 angled inwards at vein 1 ; subterminal line indistinct, whitish, 

 waved, oblique to below vein 6 ; the veins of terminal area streaked 

 with black and a slight oblique dark shade from termen below apex ; 

 a series of black points faintly defined on outer side by whitish 

 before termen; cilia intersected with blackish at the veins. Hind 

 wing crimson ; a narrow obliquely excurved black medial band 

 from costa to vein 1, expanding somewhat below the costa ; a 

 terminal black band not reaching. the tornus, its inner edge oblique 

 to vein 4 then sinuous ; the termen narrowly crimson towards apex 

 and in submedian interspace and with small spots between veins 6 

 and 2 ; cilia white, chequered with black at veins 6 to 1. Underside 

 of fore wing crimson, an oblique brown shade from costa before 

 middle to the obliquely curved black postmedial band at inner 

 margin, the terminal area black, narrowing to tornus, cilia chequered 



