] 78 NOCTUIDiE. 



sinuous, acutely angled outwards above and below vein 5, then 

 inwardly oblique, dentate, excurved in aubmedian fold and strongly 

 angled inwards at vein 1 ; the terminal area more strongly tinged 

 with red-brown ; subterminal line rather diffused, grey, waved, 

 oblique from costa to below vein 6 ; a series of blackish points 

 before termen. Hind wing golden yellow, the hair on inner 

 margin brownish ; a diffused red-brown fascia in submedian fold 

 to the rather narrow black medial band, which is oblique to sub- 

 median fold, then bent inwards and ending at vein 1 ; a black 

 terminal band from costa to just below vein 2 and a patch at 

 vein 1, the inner edge of the band oblique to vein 4 and incurved 

 at vein 2 ; a small yellow patch at apex ; cilia yellow chequered 

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

 the costa brown, an oblique brown antemedial shade from below 

 costa to vein 1, an oblique black medial band, bent inwards and 

 narrowing to inner margin, its outer edge excurved at vein 5, the 

 terminal area blackish, its inner edge curved, the apex slightly 

 greyish ; hind wing as above, but the inner area tinged with 

 red-brown, the terminal band conjoined to the patch at vein 1. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing wholly suffused with fuscous brown. 



Hah. jST.W. China, Wei-cheng, 1 S ) W. China, Omei-shan, 

 1 c? , 1 $ , Pu-tsu-fang, 1 J , 1 $ , Nitou, 2 $ , Kwei-chow, 1 6 , 

 1 2 , Ta-chieii-lu (Pratt), 2 2 • K^^T- 54-66 millim. 



7298. Ephesia desdemona. (Plate CCI. fig. 7.) 



Catoeala desdemona, H. Edw. Papib'o, ii. p. 15 (1882) ; Smitli, Cat. Noct. 

 N. Am. p. 337. 



J. Head and thorax red-brown mixed with blackish, gre}', and 

 some white ; pectus brownish white; legs brown and whitish, the 

 tarsi blackish with pale rings ; abdomen fulvous yellow, the anal 

 tuft tinged with rufous, the ventral surface ochreous white. 

 Fore wing ochreous white tinged in parts with pale greenish and 

 thickly irrorated with dark brown and red-brown ; subbasal line 

 black, waved, from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line double, 

 the inner line red-brown, the outer black and expanding into a spot 

 at costa, oblique, sinuous ; reniform with red-brown centre and 

 whitish annulus defined by black, a dark shade above it on costa ; 

 an oblique elliptical whitish spot tinged with rufous and defined by 

 black below end of cell ; postraedial line black, bent outwards 

 below costa, then oblique and almost straight, acutely angled 

 outwards above and below vein 5, then incurved, waved, at vein 1 

 angled inwards and produced to a short streak, a red-brown shade 

 beyond it ; subterminal lino blackish, dentate, oblique to below 

 vein 6 and forming stronger teeth above and below vein 5 ; a series 

 of black striae before termen defined on outer side by whitish and 

 with a short streak before the striga below vein 7 ; cilia brown 

 mixed with whitish. Hind wing orange-yellow ; a narrow black 

 medial band, oblique to below vein 2, then bent inwards to near 



