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white. Fore wing bluish white tinged in parts with rufous, the 

 veins with slight blackish streaks ; subbasal line slight, dark, 

 angled outwards below costa and ending at submediau fold, where 

 there is a slight wedge-shaped dark patch beyond it ; some ruious 

 on inner margin before the antemedial line, which is double, rufous 

 and black-brown, obliqiie and slightly sinuous to submedian fold 

 and incurved at vein 1 ; a dentate red-brown striga from middle of 

 costa ; reniform with white annulus defined by brown, its centre 

 defined by red-brown; a Mhitish spot faintly defined by brown 

 below end of cell ; postmedial line red-brown, bent outwards below 

 costa, then obliquely downcurved, acutely angled outwards above 

 and below vein 5, then incurved, angled outwards at submedian fold 

 and inwards at vein 1 , a rufous band beyond it obsolescent at middle ; 

 subterminal line blue-white and rather ditfused, obliquely incurved 

 from costa to below vein 6, then slightly waved; an oblique red- 

 brown shade from teimen below apex; a series of black-brown 

 strife before termen. Hind wing orange-yellow ; a diffused red- 

 brown fascia in submedian interspace to the blackish medial band 

 which arises below costa, is incurved below the cell, then excurved 

 to submedian fold and bent inwards to vein 1 where it terminates ; 

 a blackish terminal band from costa to below vein 2 and a patch at 

 vein 1, the inner edge of the band angled inwards at vein 2 ; the 

 termen narrowly yellow towards apex, then with slight yellow 

 marks in the interspaces ; cilia white, chequered with brown at 

 veins 6 to 2. "Underside of fore wing whitish, tinged with jellow 

 on basal half, a black-brown medial band oblique to submedian 

 fold where it is angled outwards, then bent inwards and narrowing 

 to inner margin, terminal area black-brown shading to whitish at 

 termen, its inner edge curved; hind wing as above, but paler, the 

 costal area slightly irrorated with brown, the fascia in submedian 

 fold obsolescent. 



Ab. 1. manitoha. Pore wing somewhat browner. 



Bah. Camada, Manitoba, Cartwright (Neath), 1 c5" , Westbourne 

 (WalHs), 1 J, 2 $ , Stoney Mts. {WciUis), 1 $ ; U.S.A., Eastern 

 States, New York, 3 d , 4 $ . Ecej). 44-50 millim. 



*7287. Ephesia dulciola. (Plate CCI. fig. 1 .) 



Caiocala dulciola, Grote, Papilio, i. p. 5 (ISSl) ; Smith, Cat. Ncct. N. Am. 

 p. 334. 



5 . Head and thorax white mixed with deep red-brown ; palpi 

 with red-brown patch at side of 2nd joint ; autennse red-brown 

 with a blackish line between their bases ; tegular with black line 

 near base and red-brown band near tips ; pectus and legs white 

 mixed with red-brown, the tarsi brown ringed with white ; abdo- 

 men whitish, dorsally suffused with pale red-brown. Fore wing 

 white irrorated with red-brown, the medial area with some faint 

 greenish suffusion, the terminal area suffused with red-brown ; a 

 black-brown streak above base of vein 1 and a subbasal mark on 



