176 NOCTTJID^, 



with hardly any greoiiish suffusion, the medial shade pure white 

 except at costa, the postmedial lino defined on outer side by pure 

 white at costa and towards inner margin. 



Hah. W. China, Kwei-chow, 1 d" type, Pu-tsu-fang, 1 § . Exp. 

 74 millim. 



*7295. Ephesia eminens. 



Catocala eminens, Stand. Rom. Mem. vi. p. 594, pi. 12. f. 5 (1892) ; id. 

 Cat. Lep. pal. p. 249. 



Head and thorax brown mixed with greyish ; abdomen brownish 

 ochreous. Fore wing brownish ochreous suffused with brown ; 

 subbasal line represented by blackish striae from costa and cell ; 

 antomedial line double, brown filled in with brownish ochreous and 

 defined on inner side by dark brown suffusion, strongly excurved 

 in the interspaces and angled inwards on the veins, excurved to 

 middle of inner margin ; an oblique dark brown shade from middle 

 of costa to the postmedial line between veins 6 and 3 ; reniforra 

 indistinctly defined by blackish, large ; an oblique sinuous line from 

 origin of vein 2 to inner margin ; postmedial line blackish defined 

 on outer side by whitish, strongly bent outwards below costa, then 

 highly dentate to vein 3, then bent inwards to origin of vein 2 

 where it is bidentate, then very strongly angled outwards in sub- 

 median fold and slightly excurved above inner margin ; a pale 

 curved subterminal line with brown spots beyond it in the inter- 

 spaces. Hind wing orange-yellow, the inner margin dark brown ; 

 a black-brown fascia in submedian interspace from base to the 

 medial black-brown band, which is oblique from costa to sub- 

 median fold then bent inwards and ending at vein 1, its outer edge 

 excurved below vein 5 ; terminal area black-brown, its inner edge 

 excurved at middle and slightly angled inwards at veins 2 and 1 ; 

 cilia yellowish white chequered with brown at veins 6 to 2 and 

 brown towards tornus. 



Hah. E. Siberia, U^suri. Exp. 70 millim. This species is un- 

 known to me. 



7296. Ephesia miriflca. 



Catacola mmficx, Biitl. Cist. Ent. ii. p. 243 (1877) ; id. 111. Het. B.M. ii, 

 p. 39, pi. 33. f. 7. 



Head and tegulse grey mixed with black-brown, the thorax 

 grey-white tinged with red-brown ; palpi dark brown, white at 

 base and at extremity of 2nd joint; frons white below and with 

 black medial line ; tegulae with slight dark line near base and 

 red-brown lines at middle and tips, the prothorax with narrow 

 red-brown band ; pectus and legs white tinged with yellow, the 

 tibiae irrorated with brown, the tarsi blackish ringed with white ; 

 abdomen yellow tinged with rufous, the ventral surface yellowish 

 white. Fore wing grey-white slightly tinged with red-brown and 



