£PHES1A. 185 



black medial band narrowing to inner margin, its outer edge 

 excurved at vein 5, terminal area blackish, its inner edge curved, 

 the apex with some yellowish white, the interspaces towards 

 termen with slight whitish streaks, the cilia whitish at base ; hind 

 wing as above, but the basal costal area tinged with brown, the 

 fascia in submedian fold obsolescent, the medial band not reaching 

 inner margin. 



Hah. CoEEA, Gensan {Leech), 1 c? , 1 $ t}pe. Fxp. 58 millim. 



7£06. Ephesia persimilis. (Plate CCI. fig. 11.) 



Catccala persimilis, Warr. P. Z. S. 1888, p. 314; Hmpsn. Mollis Ir.cl. ii. 

 p. 440. 



2 . Head and thorax grey mixed with black and brown ; palpi 

 whitish at base ; pectus and legs brownish white, the tibipfi irro- 

 raied with black, the tarsi black ringed with white ; abdomen pale 

 reddish brown, the ventral surface whitish. Fore wing grey tinged 

 with brown and irrorated with blackish; subbasal line black, 

 excurved below costa and ending at submedian fold ; antemedial 

 line double, the inner line indistinct, oblique, waved, an oblique 

 whitish shade from beyond it at costa to the postmcdial line at 

 vein 2 followed by a fuscous shade, then a whitish patch before the 

 angle of the postmedial line; reniform indistinctly defined by 

 black, irregular, its outer edge dentate ; an obliquely curved 

 whitish spot below end of cell, defined by black and confluent 

 with the postmedial line, which is black defined on outer side by 

 whitish, bent orilwards below costa, then oblique and slightly 

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

 dentate, at vein 2 forming the sinus below end of cell and angled 

 outwards at submedian fold ; an obscure blackish wedge-shaped 

 mark from costa before the very indistinct whitish subterminal 

 line defined on outer side by blackish and somewhat oblique from 

 costa to below vein 6 ; a waved blackish line before termen with 

 slight whitish spots beyond it; a fine w'hitish line at base of cilia. 

 Hind wing yellow, the basal and inner areas suffused with brown ; 

 a black medial band oblique from costa to submedian fold, then 

 bent inwards to inner margin, its outer edge angled outwards at 

 vein 5 ; a subterminal black band, broad at costa, its inner edge 

 oblique to below vein 4, angled inwards at vein 2, the band inter- 

 rupted at submedian fold and followed by a patch at tornus, its outer 

 edge waved to termen between veins 6 and 2 leaving small yellow 

 spots on the termen ; cilia chequered yellow and black between 

 veins 6 and 2. Underside of fore wing yellow, the costal and 

 inner areas whitish to beyond middle, an oblique brownish ante- 

 medial shade from below costa to vein 1, an obliquely curved black 

 medial band narrowing to a point at inner margin, the terminal 

 area blackish with some grey on apical area and termen ; hind wing- 

 as above, but the costal area whitish to beyond middle. 



Bab. Punjab, Thundiani {Yerhury), 1 $ type. Exp. 60 millim. 



