180 NOCTUIDiR. 



grej'ish except towards tornus ; hind wing as above, but without 

 the brown streak in submedian fold, a black spot on upper 

 discocellular conjoined to the medial baud, the apical patch white. 

 Hah. Japan-, Fushiki {Leech), 1 J type, Nagahama (Leech), 1 d" . 

 Exp. 54-60 millim. 



*7300. Ephesia davidi. 



Catocala davidi, Oberth. Et. Ent. vi. p. 22, pi. Vm. f. 7 (1881). 



Head and thorax brown mixed with grey ; abdomen jellowish. 

 Fore wing grey suffused with brown and with slight dark irro- 

 ration ; antemedial line double, brown filled in with ochreous, 

 oblique, sinuous ; an oblique dark striga froni middle of costa ; 

 reniform faintly defined by blackish, small; an indistinct spot 

 defined by blackish below end of cell ; postraedial line blackish, 

 slightly bent outwards below costa, then oblique to below veiu 6, 

 then somewhat inwardly oblique and dentate, a diffused pale shade 

 tinged with red-brown beyond it ; a series of dark points just 

 before termen. Hind wing orange-j-ellow ; blackish fasciae in 

 submedian interspace and above inner margin from near base to 

 the medial black band, which is formed by a fascia below antemedial 

 part of costa, then interrupted at discal fold below which there is a 

 patch with a band from it to above inner margin ; terminal area 

 black from costa to vein 2 leaving some yellow at apex, and a 

 patch at vein 1. ; cilia chequered witli brown at veins 6 to 2 and at 

 vein 1. Underside of fore wing yellow with oblique sinuous black 

 medial band from below costa to submedian fold, and terminal band 

 broad at costa narrowing to tornus and interrupted at submedian 

 fold ; hind wing with black spot below middle of costa connected 

 with a discoidal spot, band just beyond the cell from vein 5 to 1 

 and clavate mark above inner margin. 



Hah. K. China {David). Exp. 54 millim. This species is 

 unknown to me. 



*7301. Ephesia rutha. 



Catocala rutha, Wileiuan, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1911, p. 239, jdI. 30. f. 3. 



5 . Head and thorax dark brown mixed with grey-white ; palpi 

 white at base and with the 2nd joint white in front ; frons with 

 white lines at sides ; tegulse with white medial line ; pectus and 

 legs yellowish white, the tibiae irrorated with brown and with 

 black bands at extremities, the tarsi banded with black; abdomen 

 yellowish, dorsally suffused with red-brown. Fore wing grey- 

 white irrorated with dark brown, the base and terminal area 

 suffused with dark brown ; subbasal line diffused, dark, excurved 

 below costa and ending at submedian fold ; antemedial line blackish, 

 waved and somewhat oblique, expanding into a small spot at costa, 

 a diffused waved dark band before it from costa to vein 1 ; reniform 

 defined by blackish and with blackish lunule in centre ; medial line 



