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iTitersected with black at the veins. Underside of fore wing yellow, 

 an oblique black postraedial baud narrowing to inner margin, the 

 terminal area black shading to greyish at termen ; hind wing with 

 the costal area brownish white, on postmedial area extending to 

 vein 3, the streak in submediau fold absent, the medial band not 

 extending to eosta. 



Hah. IJ.S.A,, Missouri, Louisiana, Exp. 37 millim. This 

 species is unknown to me. 



7291. Ephesia puella. 



Catoc'xla'puella, Leech, P. Z. S. 1889, p. 651, pi. 53. f. 6. 



cJ . Head and thorax grey mixed with fuscous ; pectus and legs 

 whitish tinged with brown ; abdomen grey dorsally suffused with 

 ochreous yellow and irrorated with fuscous, the ventral surface 

 white. Eorc wing grey suffused and slightly irrorated with 

 fuscous ; subbasal line black, excurved below costa and ending at 

 submedian fold ; antemedial line black, excurved in cell and sub- 

 median fold; reniform incompletelj' defined by black and with 

 some blackish in centre ; postmedial line black, bent outwards 

 below costa, then oblique to above vein 5 where it is angled out- 

 wards, then curved downwards to below vein 3 and upwards to 

 median nervure near origin of vein 2, then oblique and angled 

 outwards in submedian fold, some pale grey in its sinus below end 

 of cell ; a very indistinct grey subterminal line, oblique from costa 

 to below vein 6 ; a series of slight blackish spots before termen. 

 Hind wing orange-yellow ; a diffused brown streak in base of sub- 

 median fold; a narrow black medial band oblique towards costa, 

 interrupted just above lower angle of cell, expanding into a spot at 

 vein 6, then curved and ending at vein 1 ; terminal area black, its 

 inner edge incurved at vein 2 and angled inwards at vein 1 ; the 

 termen narrowly yellow at apex ; cilia yellow at base, white at tips. 

 Underside of fore wing yellow, a black-brown medial band slightly 

 incurved at discal fold, the terminal area grey-brown narrowing to 

 tornus ; hind wing as above, but without the streak in submedian 

 fold. 



Hah. CoEEA, Gensan {Leecli), 1 ,S fype. Exp. 48 milim. 



7292. Ephesia andromache. (Plate CCI. fig. 4.) 



Catocala andromache, H. Edw. Ent. Am. i. p. 50 (1885) ; Smith, Cat. 

 Noct. N. Am. p. 336. 



S . Head and thorax red-brown mixed with black and some 

 whitish scales ; pectus brownish white ; legs whitish and brown, 

 the tarsi black ringed with whitish ; abdomen yellow tinged with 

 brown, the ventral surface white tinged with ochreous. Pore wing 

 grey thickly irrorated with dark brown and tinged in parts with 

 ochreous ; subbasal line black, from costa to submedian fold ; 

 antemedial line double, blackish, oblique, sinuous ; reniform defined 



