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to 2. Underside of fore wing brownish white, an oblique brown 

 antemedial shade, a blackish medial band incurred below costa, then 

 obliquely excurved, the terminal area gre3f-brown with a blackish 

 shade on its inner edge from below costa to vein 4 ; hind wing 

 whitish, the basal area suffused with brown, the medial and sub- 

 terminal bands fuscous brown and ending at vein 1. 



Hah. E. Siberia, Amurland, 2 cf, 2 5 ; Japa^t, 0\wake (Prijer), 

 1 $ . E^p. 46-54 millim. 



7281. Ephesia jonasi. 



Ccdocala jonasH, But). Cist. Ent. ii. p, 242 (1877) ; id. III. Het. B.M. ii. 

 p. 39, pi. 33. f. 6. 



Head and thorax grey-white mixed with dark brown and 

 blackish, the head and tegulse rather darker ; palpi black, whitish 

 towards base ; frons with lateral black bars ; pectus brownish 

 white ; legs white irrorated with fuscous, the tarsi blackish ringed 

 with white ; abdomen ochreous suffused with grey-brown, the ventral 

 surface brownish white. Fore wing grey-wbite irrorated with 

 dark brown; subbasal line slight, black, sinuous, from costa to 

 submedian fold ; antemedial line black slightly defined on inner 

 side by white, strong and oblique to submedian fold, then slighter 

 and slightly incurved at vein 1 ; a minute orbicular defined by 

 brown suffusion ; reniform defined by blackish and with blackish 

 centre, its outer edge somewhat dentate, a dark striga above it from 

 costa ; a small irregular white spot defined by black below end of 

 cell : postmedial line black defined on outer side by white, strongly 

 bent outwards below costa, then oblique and minutely dentate, 

 acutely angled outwards above and below vein 5, then incurved, 

 minutely dentate and angled outwards at submedian fold ; sub- 

 terminal line white defined on outer side by blackish, forming a 

 diffused white patch at middle, oblique and slightly sinuous from 

 costa to below vein 7 where it is met by a slight dark shade from 

 termen, then minutely dentate ; a series of black strise before 

 termen. Hind wing yellow, the hair on inner margin brownish, 

 the base and submedian fold to the medial band with some brown 

 suffusion ; an obliquely curved black medial band from costa to 

 vein 1 and a slight spot above inner margin, the band expanding 

 below costa and with its outer edge angled outwards at vein 5 ; 

 terminal area black, narrowing to tornus, its inner edge excurved 

 at middle and angled inwards at vein 2; the termen with a small 

 yellow patch towards apex and narrow sinuous band below vein 4; 

 cilia yellowish white. Underside of fore wing white, faintly tinged 

 with yellow on basal half, an oblique black-brown band from costa 

 before middle to vein 1, an obliquely curved black medial band, 

 narrowing to inner margin and with its outer edge excurved at 

 vein 5, terminal area blackish, its inner edge oblique to vein 4, a 

 small white apical patch, cilia white ; hind wing white, the inner 

 area suffused with yellow and brownish, a slight brown discoidal 



