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subterminal Hue whitish faintly defined on outer side by brown, 

 waved, oblique to below vein 6 ; a slight waved black line just 

 before termen with small spots in the interspaces. Hind wing 

 yellow; a short brownish fascia below base of cell; a narrow 

 obliquely excurved medial black band, arising below the costa where 

 it expands slightly, its outer edge excurved at vein 5, slightly 

 angled inwards at submedian fold and not reachiug inner margin ; 

 a terminal black band from costa to submedian fold, its inner 

 edge incurved at vein 2, and a patch at tornus ; the termen narrowly 

 yellow towards apex and with small spots between veins 6 and 2 ; 

 cilia white with faint red-brown spots at veins 6 to 2. Underside 

 of fore wing pale yellow to the obliquely curved dark brown post- 

 medial band narrowing to costa and inner margin, the postmedial 

 area yellowish white, a rather diffused curved brown subterminal 

 band leaving the costa and termen greyish brown ; hind wing 

 without the brown fascia below the cell, the medial band extending 

 from upper angle of cell to submedian fold, the subterminal band 

 obsolescent leaving the costa and termen yellowish irrorated with 

 brown. 



Hab. US A,, Texas, Springfield in Coll. W. Barnes. Exp. 

 48 millim. 



7280. Ephesia strecceri. 



Catocala streckeri. Stand. Stett. Eut. Zeit. 1888, p. 272; id. Eoiu, Mem. 

 vi. p. 697, pi. 11. f. 9 ; id. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 249. 



Head and thorax black-brown mixed with grey-white, the frons 

 with lateral black bars, the tegula3 blackish at tips ; pectus and legs 

 grey and brown, the tarsi blackish ringed with white ; abdomen 

 greyish ochreous suffused with red-brown, the crests and a streak 

 on anal tuft darker. Pore wing grey-white largely suffused with 

 dark reddish brown, the basal area suffused with black-brown ; 

 subbasal line black, excurved below costa and ending at submedian 

 fold ; antemedial line black defined on inner side by whitish, oblique 

 and sinuous to submedian fold and angled inwards at vein 1 ; 

 reniform obscurely defined by blackish and with a dark brown patch 

 above it on costa ; a small heart-shaped spot defined by blackish 

 below end of cell ; postmedial line black with some whitish suffusion 

 before it bej-ond the cell and defined by whitish at costa and inner 

 margin, bent outwards below costa, then obliquely downciirved, 

 acutely angled outwards above vein 5, then inwardly oblique, 

 minutely dentate and excurved at submedian fold ; subterminal lino 

 diffused, whitish, waved, somewhat oblique from costa to below 

 vein 6 ; a crenulate blackish terminal line defining whitish spots on 

 termen. Hind wing pale yellow, the base and inner area suffused 

 with red-brown ; a black-brown medial band, oblique to vein 5 

 where its outer edge is excurved ; a broad black-brown terminal 

 band, its inner edge incurved at veins 2 and 1 ; a small yellow 

 patch at apex followed by slight yellow spots on termen in the inter- 

 spaces to vein 2 ; cilia yellow chequered with brown at veins 6 



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