190 ifOCTriD.^. 



subbasal line black, sinuous, ending at submcdian fold ; antemedial 

 line black, defined on inner side by white with brown before it, 

 forming a small patch at costa, then oblique, sinuous, and excurved 

 above inner margin, a whitish shade beyond it except at inner 

 margin ; reniforra incompletely defined bj' black, small, an oblique 

 dark bar above it from costa ; a spot defined by blackish below end 

 of cell ; postmedial line black, bent outwards below costa, then 

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

 inwardly oblique and dentate, an obscure red-brown band beyond 

 it ; subterminal line somewhat diffused, white defined on outer 

 side by red-brown, dentate, slightly oblique from costa to below 

 vein 6 ; a series of small black spots defined on outer side by white 

 before termen. Hind wing golden yellow, some red-brown suffusion 

 in basal half of submedian fold and on inner margin ; a rather 

 narrow black medial band, obliquely curved from costa to submedian 

 fold, then bent inwards to near inner margin, its edges slightly 

 sinuous ; a black terminal band narrowing to torniis, its inner edge 

 slightly incurved at vein 2; the termen very narrowly yellow towards 

 apex, then with slight yellow marks in the interspaces ; cilia yellow 

 at base, white at tips, chequered with brown at veins 6 to 2 and 

 towards tornus. Underside of fore wing with the basal half 

 yellow, an oblique brown antemedial shade, a black medial band 

 oblique to submedian fold, its outer edge slightly excurved at 

 middle, followed by a whitish band, terminal area blackish, its 

 inner edge oblique from costa to vein 4, cilia chequered white and 

 blackish ; hind wing as above, but the costal area whitish except at 

 the bands, the fascia in submedian fold extending to the medial 

 band. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing with curved black-brown shade from middle 

 of costa to lower angle of cell and thence to termen below apex. — ■ 

 Yezo. 



Hub. Japax, Yezo {Prijer), 1 S, Oiwake {Leech), 1 c? , 1 $ , 

 Tsuruga {Leech), 1 S , Nagaharaa {Leech), 1 c? , Yokohama {Pryer), 

 1 ^ type. Evp. 50-56 millim. 



7311. Ephesia diversa. 



Noctua diversa, Geyer, Eur. Schmett., Noct. ff. 737-40 (1827) ; Frr. Neiie 



Beitr. pi. 155. ff. 1 a, h ; Stand Cat. Lep. pal. p. 250. 

 Catocala callinympha, Dup. Lep. Fr. Suppl. iii. p. 546, pi. 4fi. f. 4 (1821). 

 Catocala umbrata, Schultz, Ent. Zeit. Guben. xx. p. 100 (190G). 



Head and thorax white mixed with dark brown and black ; 

 tegulge with black band near tips, which are white ; patagia with 

 black streaks near edges ; fore tibige with black point at base and 

 black and white band at extremity, the tarsi black ringed with 

 white ; abdomen yellow tinged with rufous, some whitish at base 

 and brown irroration towards extremity, the anal tuft grey and 

 brown, the ventral surface white irrorated with brown. Fore wing 

 white irrorated and in parts suffused with dark brown and black, 

 the veins streaked with black; subbasal line black, waved, from 



