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black and white; hind wing with the basal costal area white 

 suffused with red-brown, the postmedial area white irroratcd with 

 red-brown to discal fold. 



Ab. 1, verneri. Pore wing with saddle-shaped black-brown 

 patch on inner half of medial area from the antemedial to the 

 subterminal line, its outer edge produced upwards towards apex, 

 reniform with three triangularly placed black spots on it. 



Hab. U.S.A., Utah, Provo in Coll. W. Barnes, Arizona, Huachuca 

 Mts. Exj:). 54 millim. 



7275. Ephesia intacta. (Plate CC. tig. 12.) 



Catocala intacta, Leec-b, P. Z. S. 1880, p. 548, pi. 53. f. 7. 



5 . Head and thorax reddish brown mixed with grey-white ; 

 palpi white towards base and at extremity of 2nd joint; pectus 

 white ; legs white irrorated with brown, the tarsi ochreous 

 banded with fuscous ; abdomen whitish suffused with brown. Pore 

 wing white with a faint bluish tinge and irrorated with brown, the 

 terminal area more suffused with brown; subbasal line blackish, 

 excurved below costa and ending at submediau fold ; antemedial 

 line double, brown filled in with white, the inner line diffused, the 

 outer strong and black from costa to submedian fold, oblique, 

 sinuous ; a diffused dark brown discoidal spot connected with a 

 patch on costa ; an irregular spot defined by brown below end of 

 cell, connected with the postmedial line, which is brown defined on 

 outer side by white, bent outwards below costa, then oblique and 

 minutely waved, angled outwards above and below vein 6, then 

 incurved and dentate, at vein 2 forming the sinus below end of cell ; 

 a dentate whitish subterminal line defined on each side by brown, 

 oblique from costa to below vein 6 ; a series of blackish points 

 before termen. Hind wing very pale yellow, the basal area tinged 

 with brown, the veins of postmedial area streaked with brown ; an 

 obliquely curved medial brown band ; the terminal area black- 

 brown, broadly at costa and narrowing to toruus ; a yellow apical 

 patch followed by slight yellowish marks on termen ; cilia yellowish 

 white chequered with brown. Underside of fore wing yellowish 

 white with a broad brown fascia in submedian interspace from base 

 to the brown postmedial band which expands into a discoidal patch, 

 terminal area black-brown expanding towards costa ; hind wing as 

 above but with more yellowish white on termen from apex to 

 vein 4. 



Hab. Japan, Nagahama {Leech), 1 $ type, Exp. 66 millim. 



7276. Ephesia ella. 



Catocala ella, Butl. Gst. Ent. ii. p. 242 (1877) ; id. 111. Het.B.M. ii. p. 39, 



pi. 33. f. 5; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 249. 

 Catocala nutruv, Gra:;s. Berl. Ent. Zeit. sxxii. p. 374 (1888). 



Head and thorax grey mixed with black-brown; palpi white 

 towards base ; sides of head white, the frons with black lateral 



