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the termen with yellow patch at apex, then with slight yellow 

 marks in the interspaces ; cilia pale yellow with faint brownish 

 marks at veins 6 to 2. Underside of fore wing yellowish white, 

 an oblique fuscous brown shade from costa before middle to the 

 obliquely curved blackish medial band with its outer edge escurved 

 at vein 5, at submedian fold, terminal area blackish with a yellow 

 patch at apex, its inner edge curved ; hind wing as above, but the 

 costal area yellowish white except at the bands, no brown on basal 

 and inner areas. 



Hah. Punjab, Murree {Harford), 1 5 ■, Simla {Harford), 2 S » 

 2 $ , Dhanusala {Hoclchuj), 3 j , 7 $ ; Sikhim, 1 S . Exp. 46-60 

 millim. Type t iu Mus. Oxon. 



Larva. Ochreous mottled with purplish red; lateral line blackish ; 

 the abdominal somites with subdorsal pairs of small pointed promi- 

 nences on anterior part of somites and pairs of larger pointed 

 prominences on posterior part of somites, the 8th somite with a 

 hump between these prominences and the 11th somite with them 

 placed on a ridge ; a sublateral line of fringes. Food-plant, 

 Quercus alba. 



7304. Ephesia mibila. (Plate CCI. fig. 9.) 

 Cutocala nubila, Butl. Trans. Eut. Soc. 1881, p. 19G. 



Head white ; palpi with blackish patch at side of 2nd joint, the 

 3rd joint blackish except at tip ; frons with lateral blackish bars ; 

 vertex of head with blackish patch ; antennae brown ; tegulse brown 

 with white bands at middle and tips ; thorax brown mixed with 

 greyish, the prothorax with whitish band; pectus and legs white, 

 the tibise and tarsi banded with blackish ; abdomen yellow tinged 

 with red-brown, the ventral surface white tinged with red-brown 

 towards extremity. Pore wing grey-white suffused with red- 

 brown, the veins with blackish streaks ; subbasal line blackish, 

 excurved below costa and ending at submedian fold ; antemedial 

 line brown, double, with blackish patch at costa, oblique, sinuous, 

 a slight whitish shade beyond it from costa to median nervure; 

 reniform obscurely defined by blackish and with some brown in 

 centre, an obliqne dark bar above it from costa ; an irregular spot 

 obscurely defined by brown below end of cell ; postmedial line 

 blackish, bent outwards below costa, then oblique and slightly- 

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

 inwardly oblique, dentate, and strongly angled inwards at vein 1 ; 

 subterminal line diffused, whitish defined on each side by red- 

 brown, dentate, slightly incurved below costa; a series of blackish 

 points before termen defined on outer side by yellowish ; cilia 

 whitish at base and tips. Hind wing yellow, diffused brownish 

 fasciae on costal area, in submedian interspace and on inner margin 

 to the blackish medial band, which is oblique to submedian fold, 

 then narrow and bent inwards to above inner margin, its outer 

 edge angled outwards at vein 5 ; a blackish subterminal band, its 

 inner edge incurved at difecai fold, angled inwards at veins 2 and 1 



