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inner margin, its outer edge angled outwards at vein 5; a curved 

 black subterminal band, its outer edge crenulate and produced to 

 termen at veins 6 to 2. at submedian fold reduced to a blnck 

 line ; cilia chequered with blackish at middle. Underside of fore 

 wing orange-j'ellow with an oblique fuscous antemedial shade from 

 below costa to vein 1, an obliquely curved m.edial black band, its 

 outer edge slightly an;^led outwards at vein 5, a curved subterminal 

 band, the apical area ochreous white with a series of black points 

 before termen ; hind wing as above. 



Hah. U.S.A., Arizona, Pinal Co,, Sta. Catalina Mts., 1 cJ. Exi^. 

 6t) millim. 



Larva on Scrub Oak. 



7299. Ephesia separans. 



Catocala separcms, Leech, P. Z. S. 1889, p. 552, pi. 53. f. 6. 



(S . Head and thorax grey-white mixed with reddish brown find 

 black-brown ; palpi with the 2nd joint blackish towards extremity ; 

 frons with lateral black bars, a black bar between antennas ; tegulse 

 with black-brown medial band, the prothorax with black-brown 

 band, the patagia with black lines near edges; pectus and legs 

 ochreous white, the latter irrorated with brown; abdomen yellow 

 tinged with rufous, the ventral surface brownish white. Fore wing 

 grey-white thickly irrorated with dark brown ; subba.sal line repre- 

 sented by black spots at costa and below the cell ; some black- 

 brown suffusion before middle of the antemedial line, which is 

 double, the inner line indistinct, the outer strong, black, rather 

 irregularly sinuous and somewhat oblique ; reniform whitish defined 

 by black and with a brown striga in centre, an oblique dark bar 

 above it from costa ; a small rather irregular white spot defined by 

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

 below costa, then obliquely downcurved, acutely angled outwards 

 above vein 5, then inwardly oblique, minutely dentate and strongly 

 angled inwards at vein 1 ; subterminal line greyish defined on each 

 side by brown, strongly dentate, somewhat oblique from costa to 

 below vein 6, with slight dark streaks in the interspaces from it to 

 the series of black points before termen which are defined on outer 

 side by whitish points. Hind wing golden yellow ; a brownish 

 streak in base of submedian fold ; a narrow obliquely curved black 

 medial band from costa to submedian fold with a dark spot below it 

 on vein 1 ; a black terminal band narrowing to tornus, its inner 

 edge slightly waved and angled inwards at vein 1 ; the termen with 

 small yellow patch at apex followed by slight marks in the inter- 

 spaces ; cilia white, chequered with brown at veins 6 to 2 and 

 brown towards tornus. Underside of fore wing with the basal half 

 yellow, a brown antemedial shade and fascia on inner area, an 

 obliquely curved black medial band narrowing to inner margin, its 

 outer edge somewhat excurved at vein 5, followed by a white band, 

 the terminal area blackish, its inner edge curved, the termen 



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