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a rather narrow blackish medial band, excurved below vein 5 ; a 

 terminal blackish band from costa to just below vein 2 and a patch 

 at vein 1 ; a yellow apical patch, followed by a series of points in 

 the interspaces to vein 2 ; cilia yellowish, chequered with brown at 

 veins 6 to 2 and at vein 1. Underside of fore wing with the basal 

 half yellow, an obliquely curved blackish medial band, its inner edge 

 incurved at end of cell and its outer edge excurved at middle, 

 followed by a yellowish white band, a curved blackish subterminal 

 band, the termen whitish ; hind wing as above but the postmedial 

 area to vein 5 and the apex pale yellowish, 



Ab. 1. parvula. Fore wing tinged with brown, the inner area 

 except at base suffused with black-brown. 



Ab. 2. mellitala. Fore wing with the inner half of medial area 

 red-brown, the antemedial area blackish, the reniform obsolete, the 

 spot below end of cell annulate, the postmedial and terminal areas 

 darker than the medial area, with some white before the sub- 

 terminal line except towards costa. 



Hah. U.S.A., Eastern and Middle States, 2 S , Kentucky, 1 S -, 

 1 $ . Exjj. 44-46 millim. 



Larva. French, Can. Ent. rsvii. p. 331 ; Dodge, Can. Ent. xxsiii. p. 222. 



Brownish black, with a paler dorsal stripe and broad whitish 

 patches on dorsum of somites 4, 7, 8, the patch on somite 4 usually 

 W-shaped ; warts white in front, black behind, followed by black 

 patches, on anal somites the dorsal warts large and reddish brown ; 

 somites 8 and 9 with velvety black bands ; somite 8 with a high 

 ridge inclined backwards and tipped with white or with white 

 flecks ; filaments very slight ; ventral surface greenish yellow with 

 large black spots ; head dusky in front, black behind with a small 

 pale spot near top of each lobe. Food-plants : GlecUtschia triacanthos, 

 Honej^-Locust. 5. 



*7279. Ephesia olivia. (Plate CC. fig. 15.) 



Catocala olivia, H. Edw. Bull. Brooklyn Eut. Soc. ii. p. 95 (1880) ; Smith, 

 Cat. Noet. N. Am. p. 331. 



2 . Head and thorax grey- white ; palpi with black spot on 1st 

 joint, broad band on 2nd joint, and some black on 3rd ; frons with 

 lateral black bars ; antennae brown ; prothorax with some red- 

 brown ; legs irrorated with brown, the tarsi banded with brown ; 

 abdomen pale rufous, the ventral surface white. Fore wing grey- 

 white slightly irrorated with brown ; subbasal line slight, brown, 

 sinuous, from costa to submedian fold; antemedial line black, 

 slightly waved, oblique to submedian fold, then inwardly oblique ; 

 a deep chocolate-brown patch from the cell and vein 2 to inner 

 margin extending from the antemedial to the subterminal line ; 

 reniform with very faint white annulus, a faint oblique brown striga 

 above it from costa ; postmedial line blackish, slightly bent outwards 

 below costa, then obliquely downcurved and slightly waved, strongly 

 angled outwards above vein 5 and less strongly below it, then in- 

 curved and slightly dentate, excurved in submedian interspace ; 



