166 NOCTUIDiE. 



CoKEA. ; K. China {Fortune), 1 S type; C. Chixa, Kiukiang 

 {Pryer, Pratt), 'd J,3 $ ; W. Chijta, Ta-chien-lu (Pratt), 1 cS ■ 

 Exj). 54-62 milliai. 



*72S3. Ephesia hetaera. 



Catocala hetcera, Stand. Eom. Mem. vi. p. 592, pi. 12. f. 4 (1892) ; id. Cat. 

 Lep. pal. p. 249. 



Head and thorax brown mixed with grey ; abdomen brownish 

 ochreous. Fore wing grey irrorated with brown, the basal area 

 suffused with brown to the aniemedial line leaving the veins grey ; 

 subbasal line represented by black strife from costa and cell ; ante- 

 medial line blackish defined on inner side by grey, oblique, waved ; 

 reniform whitish defined by brown and with striga in centre, large 

 and irregularly rounded, an oblique brown bar alDove it from costa; 

 a small bifid whitish spot defined by dark brown below end of cell ; 

 postmedial line black defined on outer side by grey, strongly bent 

 outwards below costa, then oblique and sinuous to below vein 6, 

 then rather oblique and dentate, at vein 1 angled inwards to near 

 middle of wing ; subterminal line greyish defined on inner side by 

 brown, strongly dentate ; a terminal series of minute pale spots 

 defined on inner side by brown. Hind wing yellow ; a brown 

 fascia on inner area ; a brown fascia in submedian interspace from 

 base to the medial blackish band, which is oblique to vein 5, then 

 excurved, and terminates at submedian fold ; terminal area black- 

 brown leaving a yellow patch at apex, its inner edge oblique to 

 vein 3 and angled inwards at submedian fold; cilia yellowish 

 white, chequered with brown at veins 6 to 2. 



Hah. E. Siberia, Amurland. Exp. 54 millim. This species is 

 unknown to me. 



7284. Ephesia crataegi. (Plate CC. fig. 16.) 



Catocala cratcpgi, Saunders, Can. Ent. viii. p. 72 (1876) ; Smith, Cat. 



Noct. N. Am. p. 3.34. 

 Catocala mira, Grote, Can. Ent. viii. p. 230 (1876); id. 111. Essay, p. 70, 



pi. 4. f. 43 ; Smitli, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 335. 

 Catocala blandula, Hulst, Bull. Brooklyn Ent. Soc. \ii. p. 38 (1884). 



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

 the 2nd joint blackish except at tip ; frons with lateral black bars; 

 tegula3 with red-brown band near tips, the patagia with blackish 

 lines near edges ; pectus and legs white, the fore and mid tibire 

 with black bars near extremities, the tarsi blackish ringed with 

 white; abdomen grey suffused with rufous, the ventral surface 

 white. Pore wing grey-white suffused in parts with rufous and 

 slightly irrorated with black, the antemedial area with oblique band 

 of rufous suffusion ; subbasal line black, angled outwards below 

 costa and ending at subbasal fold where there is a slight wedge- 

 shaped black mark beyond it followed by a slight black streak ; 



