172 srocrinD.^. 



subbasal line black, angled outwards below cost a and ending at 

 submedian fold ; antemedial line blackish defined on inner side by 

 rufous, strong and oblique to submedian fold, emitting a minute 

 streak on subcostal nervure, on inner area slight and incurved at 

 vein 1 ; reniform defined by whitish, an oblique rufous mark before 

 it from costa ; postmedial line blackish, slightly bent outwards 

 below costa, then oblique and slightly sinuous, angled outwards 

 above and below vein 5, then incurved and slightly waved, excurved 

 at submedian fold, then strong and strongly angled inwards at 

 vein 1, a rufous band beyond it ; subterminal line rather diffused, 

 grey-white, waved, somewhat oblique from costa to below vein 6, 

 a black streak beyoiad it in submedian fold ; a series of black points 

 before termen. Hind wing orange-yellow ; some brown suffusion 

 in base of submedian interspace ; medial band black, forming a 

 patch below costa, excurved from vein 5 to submedian fold, then 

 bent inwards and ending near inner margin ; a terminal black band 

 from costa to just 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 inter- 

 spaces ; cilia yellow at base, white at tips, chequered with brown 

 at veins 6 to 2. Underside of fore wii}g with the basal half yellow, 

 the costa greyish, an obliquely curved blackish medial band, its 

 inner edge sinuous and confiuent with a discoidal luuule defined by 

 blackish, followed by a Avhitish band, terminal area blackish 

 shading to grey at termen, its inner edge curved, cilia chequered 

 white and fuscous ; hind wing as above but the postmedial area 

 whitish to vein 5, the terminal band confluent with the patch at 

 vein 1. 



Ilab. U.S.A., Alabama, 1 $ type, Texas, Springfield, 1 c? , N'ew 

 Mexico, Albuquerque (OsUir), 2 cJ , 1 $ . E.vp. 42-46 millim. 



*"7290. Epliesia titania. 



Catocala titania, Dodge, Ent. News Philad. xi. p. 472 (1900) IJyar, Cat. 

 Lep. N. Am, p. 231. 



Head and thorax greenish grey ; abdomen yellow. Eore wing 

 grey suffused with moss-green, the lines indistinct; antemedial line 

 slight, brown, oblique to median nervure, then obsolete ; two dark 

 points on medial part of costa; reniform faintly defined and placed 

 on a patch of slight dark suffusion ; postmedial line very indistinct, 

 bent outwards below costa, then oblique and sinuous, angled out- 

 wards above vein 5 and slightly below it, then incurved and strongly 

 angled inwards on vein 1 ; subterminal line very indistinct, whitish, 

 dentate. Hind wing bright yellow ; medial band narrow, black, 

 oblique to vein 5 and inwardly oblique below vein 2, meeting at 

 submedian fold a black streak from base, then slight ; a terminal 

 black band from costa to below vein 2, its inner edge excurved and 

 angled inwards at vein 2, an elliptical patch on vein 1 ; the termen 

 narrowly yellow towards apex ; cilia yellow at base, white at tips, 



