186 NOCTUlDiE. 



7307. Ephesia micronympha. (Plate CCI. fig. 12.) 



Catocala m'wromjmpha, Guen. Noct. iii. p. 102 (1852); Smith, Cat. Noct. 



N. Am. p. 332. 

 Catocala fratercida, Grote & Rob. Proc. Ent. Soe. Pliil. y\. p. 24, pi. iv. 



1". 3 (1866j ; Streck. Lep. Rliop. & Het. p. 37, pi. v. f. 8. 

 Catocala atarali, Streck. Lep. B,hop. & Ilet. p. 97. pi. xi. ff. 10, 11 (1874). 

 Catocala gisela, Meyer, Bull. Brooklyn Ent. Soc. ii. p. 96 (1880). 

 Catocala jacquenetta, II. Edw. Bull. Brooklyn Ent. Soc. iii. p. 60 (1880). 

 Catocala timandra, H. Edw. Bull. Brooklyn Ent. Soc. iii. p. 60 (1880). 

 Catocala hero, H. Edw. Papilio, iv. p. 125 (1884). 

 Catocala ouwah, Poling, Can. Ent. xxsiii. p. 128 (1991). 



Head and thorax wbite mixed with rufous ; palpi black and 

 white ; frons with lateral black bars ; antennse blackish ; pectus 

 and legs white, the tibiae irrorated with brown, the fore and mid 

 tibiae with black streak at base and bars near extremities, the tarsi 

 black ringed with white ; abdomen rufous, the ventral surface white 

 tinged with rufous. Fore wing whitish suflused with rufous and 

 irrorated with black-brown, the veins of terminal half slightly 

 streaked with blackish ; subbasal line black, excurved below costa 

 and ending at vein 1 ; antemedial line indistinct, blackish, oblique 

 and sinuous to submedian fold, incurved at vein 1, an oblique 

 whitish shade beyond it from costa to median nervure defined on 

 outer side by black; reniform very indistinctly defined by blackish; 

 an oblique whitish spot defined by blackish below end of cell ; 

 postmedial line black with a whitish patch before it beyond the cell, 

 slightly bent outwards below costa, then obliquely downcurved, 

 acutely angled outwards above and below vein 5, then inwardly 

 oblique and minutely waved, angled outwards at submedian fold 

 and inwards at vein 1 ; subterminal line whitish, minutely waved, 

 somewhat incurved below costa ; a slight oblique dark shade from 

 termen beloAV apex ; a series of black points before termen defined 

 on outer side by whitish. Hind wing golden yellow; blackish, 

 fasciae on costal area, in submedian fold, and on inner margin to 

 the blackish medial band, which is oblique from costa to submedian 

 interspace, then bent inw^ards to inner margin, its outer edge 

 slightly incurved at vein 5 ; terminal area black from costa to 

 submedian fold where it is usually connected by a slight bar with 

 a patch at vein 1, its inner edge angled inwards at vein 2; the 

 termen very narrowly yellow tow^ards apex, then with slight 

 yellow marks in the interspaces ; cilia white chequered with brown 

 at veins 6 to 2. Underside of fore wing with the basal half yellow, 

 the costa and a slight fascia below the cell brownish, an obliquely 

 curved black medial band narrowang to inner margin and with its 

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

 with yellow on inner half, terminal area blackish, its inner edge 

 curved, some whitish at apex, cilia chequered white and blackish ; 

 hind wing as above, but the fasciae on basal area obsolescent, the 

 basal and postmedial costal areas whitish irrorated with brown. 



Ab. 1, jacquenetta. Fore wang tinged with olive, the lines indis- 

 tinct, a dark apical shade. 



