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brown striga at middle of costa ; reniform with, ill-defined whitish 

 annulus, its centi'e defined by red-brown ; traces of a small spot 

 deKned by whitish below end of cell; postmedial line black-brown, 

 bent outwards below costa, then obliquely downcurved, acutely 

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

 at subraedian fold and very strongly incurved at vein 1 to near the 

 antemedial line, some rufous before it at inner margin and a rufous 

 band beyond it obsolescent except on inner area ; subterminal Hue 

 whitish, rather diflfused, somewhat oblique from costa to below 

 vein 6, then slightly waved ; a series of blackish points belbre 

 termen with some rufous beyond them. Hind wing orange-yellow ; 

 a diffused black-brown fascia in submedian fold to the black medial 

 band, which arises below costa and is excurved from vein 5 to sub- 

 median fold where it terminates ; a black terminal band, its inner 

 . edge oblique to vein 4, then angled inwards at vein 2 and escurved 

 at submedian fold ; the termen narrowly yellow towards apex, then 

 Avith slight yellow marks in the interspaces ; cilia white, chequered 

 with brown at veins 6 to 2. Underside of fore wing white, the 

 basal half tinged with yellow, a slight oblique antemedial brown 

 shade from costa to vein 1, an oblique blackish medial band ending 

 at vein 1, its inner edge incurved at end of cell and its outer edge 

 slightly excurved at middle, terminal area blackish shading to 

 brownish grey at termen, its inner edge oblique to vein 4, then 

 sinuous ; hind wing as above but the costal area whitish irrorated 

 with brown, the postmedial area whitish to vein 5, the termen 

 whitish irrorated with brown to vein 2. 



Ab. 1. constans. Hind wing black except a yellow sjiot at base 

 and two others at middle of wing. 



Uab. U.S.A., Eastern and Central States, Massachusetts, N^ew 

 York, 3 c? 5 3 $ , type nuptula, llhode I., 1 § , Ohio, Columbus, 1 $ , 

 Kansas (Snow), 2 c? . Exp. 46-54 millim. 



Larva. Eoebele, Bull. Brookl_yn Ent. Soc. iv. p. 22 ; Coquillet, x. p. 184. 



Silvery grey with reddish shading especially in front ; 11th 

 somite with rust-red prominence ; prolegs red above ; head dark 

 with two whitish dorsal lunules edged behind with reddish, Food- 

 plants : Apple and Plum. 



7289. Ephesia alabamse. (Plate CCI. fig. 3.) 



Catocala alabamcB, Grote, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phil. 1875, p. 427 ; Smith, 

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



Head and thorax purplish grey mixed with some rufous ; palpi 

 white towards base, the 2nd joint with black-brown band and white 

 ring at extremity ; frons with a black bar at middle ; antennae 

 blackish towards base ; prothorax with rufous bar, the metathorax 

 with rufous patch ; pectus and legs white, the tibiae irrorated with 

 brown, the tarsi blackish ringed with white ; abdomen pale rufous, 

 Avhitish at base, the ventral surface whitish tinged with rufous. 

 Fore wing purplish grey irrorated and in parts suffused with rufous ; 



