EPHESIA. 167 



antemedial line black, strong, very oblique to submedian fold and 

 slightly angled inwards at vein 1, a white shade beyond it from 

 costa to median nervure ; renilbrm with its centre defined by brown 

 and with white annulus, an oblique red-brown bar above it from 

 costa ; a small white spot defined by brown and with some rufous 

 in centre below end of cell ; postmedial line blackish, bent out- 

 wards below costa, then oblique and slightly sinuous, acutely 

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

 outwards at submedian fold, where there is a black streak on it, and 

 angled inwards on vein 1 to the antemedial line, a rufous band 

 beyond it ; subterminal line white, dentate, oblique from costa to 

 below vein 6 ; the terminal area with slight dark streaks on the 

 veins and in the interspaces and a slight oblique shade from termen 

 below apex ; a series ef slight blackish points just before termen. 

 Hind wing orange-yellow, the inner area suffused with red-brown ; 

 a dark brown fascia in submedian fold to the obliquely curved 

 black medial band from costa to vein 1, its inner edge incurved at 

 end of cell and its outer edge excurved at vein 5 ; a black terminal 

 band, its inner edge incurved at vein 2 and excurved at submedian 

 fold ; the termen with small yellow patch at apex followed by 

 slight marks in the interspaces ; cilia whitish, chequered with 

 brown at veins 6 to 2 and towards tornus. Underside of fore wing 

 white, the basal half tinged with yellow, an oblique brown ante- 

 medial shade from costa to submedian fold, an obliquely curved 

 blackish medial band, its inner edge incurved at end of cell, ter- 

 minal area blackish shading to grey at termen, its inner edge 

 curved ; hind wing as above but the basal and postmedial costal 

 areas and the apical patch whitish, 



Ab. 1. hlandula. Larger ; fore wing with almost the whole 

 basal area dark brown, a brighter red-brown band beyond the post- 

 medial line. 



Ab. 2, mira. Fore wing without brown suffusion on basal and 

 inner areas and with slight rufous band beyond the postmedial 

 line. 



Hah. Canada (Saunders), 2 (^ type, Ontario, Orillia (BusJi), 1 cJ ; 

 U.S.A., Northern, Eastern, and Southern States, 'New York (Double- 

 day), 1 c? , 1 5 , Evans Center {Orote), 4 cJ , 5 5 , Florida, Kansas 

 (Snoiv), 2 (S , 2 2 , type mira, New Mexico, Albuquerque {Oslar), 

 1 S , Arizona, Nogales (Oslar), 2 d ,2 $ . Exjy. 44-45 millim. 



Larva. Saunders, Can. Ent. yiii. p. 72. 



Greenish ash-colour, varying considerably ; warts generally 

 tipped with red ; 8th somite with a dull red prominence ; fringes 

 rosy. Eood-plant, Crataegus. 



7285. Ephesia pretiosa. (Plate CC. fig. 17.) 



Catocala pretiosa, Lintn. Can. Ent. yiii. p. 121 (1876); Smitb, Cat. JSoet. 

 N. Am. p. 334. 



Head and thorax white mixed with some red-brown and black ; 

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



