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costa, oblique, sinuous, some white suffusion beyond it from eosta 

 to below the cell ; reniform obscurely defined by blackish and with 

 an oblique blackish bar above it from costa; a somev/hat triangular 

 white spot defined by black below end of cell ; postmedial line 

 black slightly defined on outer side by white and with some whitish 

 suffusion before it beyond the cell, bent outwards below costa, then 

 obliquely downcurved, angled outwards above vein 5, then inwardly 

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

 line whitish, minutely dentate, slightly oblique from costa to below 

 vein 7; a series of blackish points before termeri with yollow 

 points beyond them on termen ; cilia with yellow lines at base and 

 tips. Hind wing yellow, the inner area tinged with red-brown ; 

 an obliquely curved blackish medial band, ending above inner 

 margin, its outer edge excurved at vein 5 ; a blackish terminal 

 band from costa to just below vein 2, often connected by a slight 

 bar in submedian interspace with a blackish patch at vein 1, its 

 inner edge excurved at middle and incurved at vein 2; the termen 

 with a yellow apical patch, then slight yellow marks in the inter- 

 spaces ; cilia yellowish white chequered with brown between 

 veins 6 and 2. Underside of fore wing pale yellow, an oblique 

 brown shade from costa before middle to vein 1, an obliquely 

 curved blackish medial band ending above vein 1, its outer edge 

 excurved at vein 5, the terminal area brown, ending at vein 1, its 

 inner edge curved ; hind wing as above but pale yellowish, the medial 

 bund more oblique to submedian fold, the terminal band obsolescent. 



H((h. France, Pyrenees, Leech Coll, ; Germany ; Spain, Leon, 

 Piedrahita {Chapman), Andalusia, Leech Coll.; Cente. Italy; 

 Algeria; Dalmatia, Leech Coll.; Armenia, Caucasus, 1 c? , 1 $. 

 Leech Coll.; Asia Minor, Eifchynia, Lydia, Taurus; CypPvUs, 

 Nicosia {Biwhiill), 1 S ■ Exp. 42-62 millim. 



Larva. Kirby, Butt. & Moths Eur. p. 277; Hffm. Eaup. p. 150, pi. 37. 

 f. ]6. 



Yellowish brown mottled with red-brown ; stigmatal line dark 

 grey ; ventral surface yellow with pale red spots between the 

 claspers; warts and lateral fringes yellowish ; head red-brown 

 mottled with yellow. Food-plants : Quercus suber, ilex, etc. 



7310. Ephesia duplicata. (Plate CCI. fig. 14.) 

 Ccdocala duplicata, But!. Cist. Ent. iii. p. 135 (1885). 



Head and thorax grey-white mixed with black-brown ; palpi 

 with the 1st and 2nd joints white, the latter with black band 

 towards tips ; frons white below and with black bar above : tegulae 

 with blackish medial band; pectus and legs white, the tibise 

 irrorated with brown, the fore and mid tibias with some black 

 at base and bars near extremities, the tarsi black ringed with 

 white ; abdomen pale rufous, the ventral surface white tinged with 

 rufous. Pore wing bluish white thickly irrorated with iron-brown, 

 the antemedial area with some brown suffusion on costal half; 



