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outwards at vein 5 ; a subtermiual black-browii band, expanding at 

 costa, its inner edge oblique to vein 4, expanding into patches 

 at veins 2 and 1 connected with the medial band, its outer edge 

 waved to termen between veins 8 and 2. Underside of fore wiug 

 pale j'ellow, an oblique antemedial brown shade from below costa 

 to vein 1, a medial blackish band oblique to submedian fold and 

 narrowing to inner margin, terminal area blackish, its inner edge 

 oblique to vein 4, some yellowish on costa towards apex; hind 

 wing as above, but without brown on inner margin, the termen 

 with more yellow and the subtermiual and medial bands not 

 connected at vein 2. 



Hab. Japan, Tokio (Maries), 1 c? type. Exj>. 58 millim. 



7309. Ephesia nympliaBa. 



Nuct'ua nymphcsa, Esp. Schmeft. iv. pi. 105. f. 4 (1787) ; Hilbn. Eur. 

 Schmett., Noct. f. 339; Diip. Lep. Fr. Suppl. iii. p. 543, pi. 46. f. 2; Herr.- 

 SchJifF. Schmett. Eur., Noct. ff. 589, 590; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 249. , 



Noctua vestaMs, Geyer, Eur. Schmett., Noct. ff. 841-3 (1841). 



Catocala conjux, Frr. Neue Beitr. vi. p. 137, pi. 569. f. 2 (,1852). 



Catocala thalamos, Schultz, Ent. Zeit. xxii. p. 169 (1909). 



Head and thorax red-brown mixed with whitish and black 

 palpi ochreous white at base ; frons with lateral black bars ; pectus 



Fig. 6. — Ephesia nymphcEa, (^ . \. 



ochreous white ; tarsi blackish ringed with white; abdomen yellow 

 tinged with rufous, the ventral surface ochreous white. Fore wing 

 grey-white suffused with red-brown and irrorated with fuscous ; 

 subbasal line blackish, excurved below costa and ending at sub- 

 median fold ; antemedial lino black, indistinctly double towards 



