192 NOCXUID-E. 



incurved ab vein 1, some red-brown suffusion before it, a whitish 

 shade beyond it from costa to median nervure ; reniform with 

 white annulus incompletely defined by black and its centre defined 

 by brown, its outer edge somewhat dentate and with black streaks 

 beyond it on the veins, a brown shade above it from costa; a small 

 triangular white spot defined by black below end of cell ; post- 

 raedial line black, forming a small spot at costa, bent outwards 

 below costa, then obliquely downcurved, angled outwards above 

 and below vein 5, then incurved and again excurved, strongly 

 angled inwards and with a black streak on it at vein 1, a narrow 

 pale rufous band beyond it; subterminal line white, defined on 

 outer side by dark brown, obliquely incurved from costa to below 

 vein 7, then dentate, the veins and interspaces beyond it with 

 slight black streaks ; a crenulate black terminal line defining a 

 series of white points on the termen ; cilia with a brown line 

 through them. Hind wing golden yellow, the inner area tinged 

 with red-brown ; a narrow blackish medial band, oblique to sub- 

 medim fold, then bent inwards to inner margin, somewhat dilated 

 beyond lower angle of cell ; terminal area blackish brown, narrowing 

 to tornus, its inner edge angled inwards at vein 2 and outwards 

 at submedian fold ; cilia whitish chequered with brown except 

 towards apex. Underside of fore wing pale yellowish, an oblique 

 brown antemedial shade, an oblique black medial band, its inner 

 edge incurved at end of cell and its outer edge excurved at middle, 

 terminal area fuscous brown, its inner edge curved, cilia chequered 

 whitish and brown ; hind wing as above, but the costal area pale 

 yellowish irrorated with brown to the median nervure and vein 5 

 except at the bands, a brown discoidal bar. 



Ab. 1. separata. Hind wing darker. 



Ab. 2. luctuosa. Hind wing wholly suffused with fuscous. 



Hab. D.A.LM.vnA, Zeller and Mutzell Colls. ; Corfu ; Greecij}, Leech 

 Coll.; BALCA.N States; Khurdistan ; Asia Min-or, Pontus, Bithynia, 

 Lydia, Smyrna, 1 J ? 1 2 • Frey and Merlin Colls., Tanrns ; Stria, 

 Beirut, 1 c? , Zeller Coll ; Palestine. Ex^p. 40-46 millim. 



7313. Ephesia eutycliea. 



Catosala euti/chea, Treit. Scliraett. Eur. x. 2, p. 165 (1835) ; Herr.-Schaff. 



Schmett. Eur., Noct. f. 447 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 2.50. 

 Cafocala languida, Herr.-Schiiff. Schmett. Eur. ii. p. 407, Noct. ff. 238-9 



(1S52). 

 Catoca'a dotata, Herr.-Schaff. Schmett. Eur. ii. p. 407, Nocfc. ff. 585-G 



(1852). 

 Catoccda mariana, Rinbr. Cat. Lep. S. And. pi. is. f. 4 (1858). 



Head and thorax grey-white mixed with pale bi-own ; frons 

 with lateral black bars; prothorax with narrow blackish band, 

 the patagia with some black scales near upper edge; fore tibioe 

 with black bar at extremity, the tarsi blackish ringed with white ; 

 abdomen whitish tinged with rufous. Fore wing grey-white 

 suffused and irrorated with pale red-brown ; subbasal line black, 

 excurved below costa and ending at submedian fold; antemedial 



