170 NOCXUIDiE. 



inner margin ; subbasal line slight, brown, angled outwards below 

 costa and ending at submedian fold; antemedial line double, dark 

 red-brown, oblique to submedian fold and incurved at vein 1 ; 

 reniform with white annulus, its centre faintly defined by brown, 

 an oblique dark shade above it from costa and some dark suffusion 

 beyond it; a white spot faintly defined by brown below end of cell ; 

 j)ostmedial line indistinct, red-brown, slightly bent outwards below 

 costa, then obliquely downcurved, slightly angled outwards above 

 and below vein 5, then incurved, and excurved in submedian inter- 

 space ; subterminal line white, defined on inner side by red-brown 

 and on outer by the red-brown suffusion, waved, rather oblique 

 from costa to vein 6 ; the veins of terminal area with slight dark 

 streaks ; a slightly sinuous brown line just before termen ; cilia 

 intersected with brown at the veins. Hind wing yellow ; a brown 

 fascia in submedian fold from base to the obliquely curved rather 

 2iarrow black medial band which does not reach the inner margin, 

 expanding below costa, and with its outer edge excurved at vein 5 ; 

 a terminal black band from costa to submedian fold connected by 

 a slight bar with a patch at tornus, its inner edge incurved 

 at vein 2 ; the termen yellow towards apex ; a slightly sinuous 

 black line just before termen except towards apex leaving the 

 termen narrowly yellow ; cilia white, chequered with brown at 

 veins 6 to 2. Underside of fore wing yellowish white, a faint 

 oblique brown antemedial shade, a dark brown postmedial band 

 oblique to submedian fold, then bent inwards and narrow to inner 

 margin, the terminal area brown narrowing to tornus ; hind wing 

 with the medial band obsolescent towards costa, the termen with 

 some yellowish white suffusion. 



The right tibia with a single spine between the medial and 

 terminal spurs. 



Hah. U.S.A., Ohio, Illinois, Quincy {Poling), in Coll. "W. Barnes. 

 Exp. 46 millim. 



7288. Ephesia grynea. (Plate CCI. fig. 2.) 



Phalcena grynea, Oram. Pap. Exot. iii. p. 29, pi. 208. f. H (1782) ; Smith, 



Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 332. 

 Catocala polygn.ma, Giien. Noct. iii. p. 10.5, pi. 16. f. 2 (1852). 

 Catocala nuptula, Wlk. xiii. 1205 (1857). 

 Catocala constatis, Hulst, Bull. Brooklyn Ent. Soc. vii. p. 36 (1884). 



Head and thorax greenish grey ; palpi rufous ; frons whitish 

 tinged with rufous above ; tegulse rufous except at base, the pro- 

 thorax with narrow rufous band, the metathorax with rufous patch ; 

 pectus and legs white, the tibiae tinged with brown, the tarsi 

 blackish ringed with white ; abdomen rufous, the ventral surface 

 white. Fore wing greenish grey slightly tinged in parts with pale 

 rufous ; subbasal line blackish, angled outwards below costa and 

 ending at submedian fold ; antemedial line represented by a series 

 of blackish points with some rufous at costa, excurved at middle 

 and above inner margin where there is some rufous before it ; a 



