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blackish and oblique to reniform, indistinct, inwardly oblique, and 

 sinuous from cell to inner margin ; postmedial line black, with 

 small spot at costa, bent outAvards below costa, then minutely 

 dentate, oblique to vein 6, then incurved and excurved at sub- 

 median fold ; subterminal line grey-white, waved, somewhat 

 oblique to vein 6 ; an indistinct crenulate dark terminal line with 

 small yellowish spots beyond it in the interspaces ; cilia chequered 

 brown and whitish. Hind wing deep yellow ; the inner margin 

 brownish ; a black-brown fascia in submedian fold ; an oblique 

 blackish band from costa before middle to submedian fold, then 

 bent inwards and narrow to inner margin, its outer edge excurved 

 beyond lower angle of cell; terminal area black to below vein 2, 

 then connected by a slight line with a wedge-shaped spot on vein 1, 

 its inner edge angled inwards at vein 2 ; a yellow patch at apex, 

 then small spots in the interspaces ; cilia yellow. Underside of 

 fore wing yellow, an oblique brown antemedial shade from costa 

 t.o submedian fold, an oblique black postmedial band from costa to 

 submedian fold where it is slightly curved inwards, its outer edge 

 incurved below costa ; terminal area black, its inner edge oblique 

 to vein 4, the costa yellow at apex. 



Hah. Japan, Hondo, type t $ in Coll. Wileman. Exp. 62 

 millim, 



7302. Ephesia iiiconstans. 



Catocala iiiconstans, Eutl. 111. Het. B.M. vii. p. 76, pi. 132. ff. 2, 3 (1889); 

 Hnipsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 439. 



Head and thorax grey mixed with brown, the head tinged with 

 black ; palpi whitish in front towards base ; frons white at sides 

 and with black lateral bars; teguhe with black medial liue : pectus 

 brownish white, the tarsi blackish ringed with white ; abdomen 

 grey-brown, the ventral surface whitish tinged with brown. Fore 

 wing grey tinged with red-brown and irrorated with blackish, the 

 antemedial and terminal areas rather browner ; subbosal line black, 

 sinuous, from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line double, the 

 inner liue indistinct, the outer black, oblique and rather diffused 

 to submedian fold and angled inwards at vein 1 ; the medial area 

 saflused with whitish except towards inner margin ; reniform 

 defined by black and with some red-brown in centre, its outer edge 

 dentate, a dark striga above it from costa; a large whitish spot 

 defined by black below end of cell; postmedial line black, bent 

 outwards below costa, then oblique and slightly sinuous, acutely 

 angled outwards above and below vein 5, then oblique and dentate, 

 at vein 1 angled inwards as a strong black streak to near ante- 

 medial line ; subterminal line whitish slightlj" defined on outer 

 side by brown and on both sides towards costa, obliquely down- 

 curved from costa to below vein 7, then waved ; a faint oblique 

 dark shade from tcrmen below apex and slight black spots below 

 veins 7 and 6 ; a series of black striae before termen slightly 

 defined on outer side by whitish ; a fine whitish line at base of 



