EPHESIA. 165 



lunule conjoined above to the medial band which is narrower 

 towards costa. 



Hab. Japan, Fushiki {Leech), 1 $ , Nikko {Leech), 1 $ , Yoko- 

 hama {•Jonas, Friier), 2 cJ , 3 5 type, Exjp. 70-78 millim. 



7282. Ephesia praegnax, 



Catocala 2:)r(Bgnaa:, Wlk. xiii. 1213 (1857) ; Eutl. 111. Het. B.M. iii. p. 25, 



pL46. f. 11. 

 Catocala obllterata. Men. Euuin. Mus. Imp. Petrop. p. 1.59, pi. 17. f. 3 



(1857); Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 249. 

 Catocala esther, Eutl. Cist. Ent. ii. p. 243 (1877); id. 111. Het. B.M. ii. 



p. 40, pi. 33. f. 9. 



Head and thorax bright red-brown mixed with some ochreous ; 

 pectus greyish tinged with red-brown ; tarsi ringed with white ; 

 abdomen orange-yellow, the crests and anal tuft tinged with rufous, 

 the ventral surface ochreous white. Fore wing white tinged with 

 yellow and thickly irrorated with red-brown, the antemedial area 

 suffused with black ; subbasal line rather diffused, dark brown, 

 curved, from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line indistinctly 

 double, dark brown filled in with white at inner margin, sinuous 

 and somewhat oblique ; reniform defined by black and with red- 

 brown centre, a dark red-brown shade above it on costa ; a small 

 spot defined by black below end of cell, its outer edge somewhat 

 excised, a brown line from it to inner margin ; postmedial line 

 black, slightly defined on outer side by white towards costa and 

 inner margin, bent outwards below costa, then obliquely incurved 

 and sinuous, angled outwards above vein 5, then inwardly oblique, 

 dentate and angled inwards at vein 1 ; subterminal line rather 

 diffused, grey defined on each side by dark brown, waved, some- 

 what oblique from costa to below vein 6 ; a crenulate dark brown 

 terminal line defining slight yellow spots on the termen. Hind 

 wing golden yellow, the hair on inner margin brown, a brown 

 streak in base of submedian fold ; a rather narrow obliquely curved 

 black medial band from costa to vein 1, its outer edge escurved at 

 vein 5 and submedian fold ; a black terminal band, its inner edge 

 incurved at veins 2 and 1 ; the termen narrowly yellow towards 

 apex, then with slight yellow marks in the interspaces ; cilia yellow, 

 chequered with brown at veins 6 to 2. Underside of fore wing 

 yellow, an oblique antemedial brown shade from costa to vein 1, 

 an oblique black medial band narrowing to inner margin, its outer 

 edge slightly excurved at vein 5, terminal area fuscous brown 

 shading to greyish at termen, its inner edge curved ; hind wing as 

 above, the basal costal area tinged with rufous, the medial band 

 oblique to submedian fold, the apical patch whitish. 



Ab. 1. oblitenda. Fore wing with more or less white suffusion 

 on medial area except at middle of costa. 



Hab. E. Siberia, Amurland, Ussuri ; Japan, Yezo {Fryer), 1 S , 

 Shimonoseki {Leech), 1 J , 1 ?, Tokio {Penton), 2 J, 1 $, 

 Yokohama (./onfTs, /S<r?cW«nr?), 1 d,3 ? type<'5)'7ter, Kiushiu, 1 6 \ 



