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costa to siibmedian fold, where there is a short black streak beyond 

 it ; antemedial line double, black, with blackish suiFusion before it, 

 oblique, waved, a dark fascia beyond it in submedian fold and a 

 white shade except at inner margin ; reniform incompletely defined 

 by black and its centre by fuscous, an oblique black bar above it 

 from costa and the veins beyond it with strong black streaks ; 

 a triangular spot defined by black below end of cell ; postmedial 

 line black slightly defined on outer side by white, bent outwards 

 below costa, then obliquely downeurved, acutely angled outwards 

 above and below vein 5, then inwardly oblique and dentate, ex- 

 curved at submedian fold ; subterminal line white defined on outer 

 side by black, dentate, oblique from costa to below vein 7, a series 

 of black streaks beyond it in the interspaces ending in points 

 before termen defined on outer side by white. Hind wing yellow, 

 the inner area tinged with red-brown, a dark streak in base of 

 submedian fold ; a narrow black medial band, oblique to submedian 

 fold, then slightly bent inwards and ending at vein 1 ; a black 

 terminal band narrowing to tornus, its inner edge oblique to vein 4 

 and incurved at vein 2 ; the termen Avith some yellow towards 

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

 at base, whitish at tips. Underside of fore wing pale yellowish, 

 an oblique brown antemedial shade, an obliquely curved black 

 medial band narrowing to inner margin, the terminal area black, 

 its inner edge waved and curved, cilia white with some brown at 

 tips ; hind wing as above, but the costal area Avhitish tinged with 

 yellow, the medial band extending indistinctly to inner margin. 



Ab. 1. itmbrat(f. Eore wing more uniformly suflTused with fuscous. 



If<tb. S. France; Afstria, Tirol ; IIfngary, Mutzell and D'Em- 

 mich Colls. ; Spain, Andalusia ; Sicily ; Dalmatia, Frey and Leech 

 Colls. ; Balcan States ; Khurdistan ; Asia Minor, Bithynia ; 

 Stria, 1 c? , Leech Coll. Exp. 42-46 millim. 



Larva. Kirby, Butt. & Moths Eur. p. 277; Hffin. Eaiip. p. 150. 



Rufous variegated with brown ; dorsal line yellowish edged with 

 black; lateral line black; warts black; some yellowish spots at 

 sides; no prominences. Food-plant, Oak. 5. 



7312. Ephesia disjiiiicta. 



Noctua disjuncta, Geyer, Eur. Schraett., TSToct. if. 741-2 (1833) ; Dnp. Lep. 



Fr. Suppl. iii. p. 548, pi. 4(1. f. 3; Herr.-Seliaff. Schinett. Eur., Noet. 



ff. 236-7 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 250. 

 'Noctua separata, Frr. Neue Beitr. vi. p. 43, pi. 508. f. 4 (1852). 

 Catocala luctuosa, Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 250 (1901). 



Head and thorax grey-white mixed with dark red-brown ; frons 

 with lateral black bars; tegulse with black bands at middle and 

 near tips; prothorax with narrow black b.ind ; patagia with some 

 black scales near edges ; tarsi blackish ringed with white ; abdomen 

 pale rufous, the ventral surface whitish mixed with brown. Fore 

 wing grey-white irrorated and in parts suffused with red-brown ; 

 subbasal line black, exeurved below costa and ending at submedian 

 fold ; antemedial line strong, black, exeurved below ccsta and 



