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marks on terrKeniii the interspaces to vein 2 ; cilia j^ellowish white 

 with brown marks at veins 6 to 2. Underside of fore wing yellow, 

 the costa brown, an oblique brown shade from costa before middle 

 to vein 1, a blackish medial band narrowing to inner margin and 

 with its outer edge excurved at vein 5, terminal area brown with 

 curved inner edge ; hind wing as above. 



IJah. Kashmir (Pileher), 1 d" ; Punjab, Kulu, Sultanpur (G. 

 Young), 1 S , Simla {Harford), 2 c? type. Exj). 64-66 millim. 



7294. Ephesia butleri. (Plate CCI. fig. 6.) 



Ccdocala hutleri. Leech, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1900, p. 534. 



cJ . Head and thorax dark brown mixed with reddish brown and 

 grey; palpi whitish at base ; frons with blackish bar; pectus and 

 legs white tinged with brown, the fore tibise at extremity and the 

 tarsi banded black and white; abdomen yellow-brown, the extremity 

 grey-brown. Fore wing grey tinged with greenish and irrorated 

 slightly with white, the terminal area purplish grey tinged with 

 brown ; the basal area with some black-brown suffusion ; subbasal 

 line black, waved, from costa to subraedian fold, a slight white 

 streak below it on vein 1 with black mark above it; antemedial 

 line black defined on inner side by whitish, oblique, sinuous ; 

 reniform slightly defined by blackish and with black mark on its 

 outer edge ; a pale oblique shade from middle of costa to submedian 

 fold, with an irregular spot slightly defined by blackish on it below 

 end of cell with a sinuous line from it to inner margin ; postmedial 

 line black, defined on outer side by whitish at costa and towards 

 inner margin, bent outwards below costa, then oblique and sinnous, 

 acutely angled outwards above and below vein 5 with a prominent 

 black mark in the lower tooth, then incurved and waved, at vein 2 

 connected with the spot below end of cell ; subterminal line double, 

 dark, dentate, oblique from costa to below vein 6 ; a series of 

 blackish points betore termen. Hind wing orange-yellow ; a dif- 

 fused black-brown fascia in submedian fold to the medial band and 

 the hair on inner margin brown ; a black band oblique from middle 

 of costa to submedian fold, then bent inwards to inner margin, its 

 outer edge excurved below costa and angled outwards at vein 5 ; 

 terminal area black, its inner edge excurved at vein 4 and sub- 

 median fold, angled inwards at vein 2 and incurved at vein 1, the 

 yellow of postmedial area being almost broken up into three 

 patches ; a small yellow apical patch followed by a series of yellow 

 points on termen with the cilia whitish beyond them. Underside 

 of fore wing blackish brown, the basal area and costa to tlie oblique 

 yellow medial band yellow, a yellow postmedial band, oblique from 

 costa to vein 4 ; hind wing as above but the black markings reduced 

 especially the fascia in submedian fold, the medial band not reaching 

 inner margin. 



5 . Head, thorax, and fore wing darker, the last purple-brown 



