EPHEsiA. iy7 



Ab. 2. hero. Fore wing with a large white patch on basal half 

 of medial area from costa to median nervure and ou the wholo 

 medial area below the cell and vein 2. 



Ab. 3. timandra. Fore wing dirty white, the basal area oliva- 

 ceous, the lines distinct; hind wing with the medial baud 

 narrower. 



Ab. 4. ouvah. Fore wing with a diffused dark fascia along median 

 nervure only separated from the oblique fascia from termen below 

 apex by the pale spot below end of cell, 



Ab. 5. gisela. Fore wing suffused with black to the postmedial 

 line. 



Hah. Canada; U.S.A., Massachusetts, New York (Mc^ke), 2 J, 

 Rhode I., Illinois, Georgia, Florida, 1 J , Kansas (Snow), 2 cj" , 2 $ , 

 Texas, Dallas (Boll), 3 2 ■> Colorado, California, Arizona. E.vp. 

 52-54 millim. 



Larva. Coquillet, Papilio, i. p. 7, 



Ash-grey ; dorsal area dark grey defined by a series of piliferous 

 spots ; a stigmatal series of black spots ; 8th somite with a slight 

 prominence ; two anterior pairs of prolegs smaller than the others; 

 head pale grey edged above and at sides by black. Food-plants, 

 Live and Burr Oak. 



7308. Ephesia connexa. (Plate CCI. fig. 13.) 



Caiocala connexa, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1881, p. 196. 



J . Head, thorax, and abdomen grey-white mixed with fuscous ; 

 palpi white at base and in front, the 2iid and 3rd joints black at 

 sides ; frons white with a pair of black spots above ; tegulae with 

 blackish band near tips ; iDcctus and legs white, the tibiae and tarsi 

 irrorated with fuscous and banded with black; abdomen yellow- 

 brown with slight pale segmental lines, the ventral surface pale 

 yellow, white at base. Fore wing purplish grey thickly irrorated 

 with black-brown ; an oblique sinuous blackish subbasal line from 

 costa to submedian fold; antemedial line blackish, waved, angled 

 inwards on median nervure and vein 1, a waved dark brown shade 

 before it from costa to vein 1 ; reuiform with black-brown centre 

 and ochreous annulus defined by rather diffused black-brown, a 

 rather diffused black-brown medial line interrupted by the reni- 

 form ; postmedial line blackish, bent outwards below costa, then 

 oblique and sinuous to below vein 6 where it is acutely angled 

 outwards, then incurved and dentate, some ochreous white before 

 it beyond the cell and beyond it between veins 4, 3 ; a dentate 

 black-brown subterminal line somewhat oblique from costa to below 

 vein 7 ; a waved dark line just before termen with a series of 

 ochreous white points beyond it ; cilia fuscous brown at base, 

 yellowish white at tips. Hind wing orange-yellow ; diffused 

 black-brown fasciae in submedian interspace and on inner margin ; 

 a black-brown medial band oblique from costa to submedian fold, 

 then bent inwards to inner margin, its outer edge somewhat angled 



