EPHESiA. 193- 



line black, slightly defined on inner side by whitish, forming a 

 small spot at costa, then obliquely excurved and incurved at vein 1 ; 

 rcniform faintly defined by blackish and its centre by brown, an 

 oblique dark bar above it from costa ; a spot faintly defined by 

 blackish below end of cell ; postmedial line blackish, bent outwards 

 below costa, then obliquely downcurved, angled outwards above 

 vein 5, then incurved and again slightly excurved, angled inwards 

 at vein 1; subterminal line very indistinct, whitish slightly defined 

 on outer side by red-brown, obliquely incurved from costa to below 

 vein 6, then waved ; a crenulate blackish terminal line; cilia with 

 a whitish line at base. Hind wing yellow, the inner area tinged 

 with red-brown, a blackish medial band, oblique from costa to 

 submedian fold, then bent inwards to above inner margin, narrowing 

 below vein 3 ; a blackish brown terminal band from costa to below 

 vein 2 connected by a slight bar on termen with a patch at vein 1 ; 

 the termen with some yellow at apex ; cilia white, chequered with 

 ])rown at veins 6 to 2 and at vein 1. Underside of fore wing 

 yellowish white, the costa brownish, a blackish medial band oblique 

 to submedian fold, then bent inwards and narrowing, its inner edge 

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

 terminal area grey-brown, its inner edge curved ; hind wing as 

 above but the costal area brownish. 



Ab. 1. dotata. Hind wing with the medial band more curved 

 and sinuous, not angled outwards in submedian fold. 



Hah. Spaiw, Andalusia ; Dalmatia ; Greece, Zeller, Frey, Mut- 

 zell, D'Emmich, and Merlin Colls. ; Naxos, Merlin Coll. ; Balcan 

 States; ? Armenia ; Asia Mis-qr, Pontus, Lydia, Taurus; Stria, 

 2 S , Leech Coll., Beirut (Lederer), 1 $ . E.vjj. 38-46 millira. 



7314. Ephesia distorta. 



Catocala distorta, Butl. 111. Het. B.M. vii. p. 77, pi. 132. f. 4 (1889) ; 

 Hmjisn. Moths lud. ii. p. 441. 



Head and thorax red-brown ; pectus with grey mixed ; tibiae 

 tinged with fuscous, the tarsi black ringed with whitish ; abdomen 

 grey-brown tinged with rufous, the ventral surface whitish. Fore 

 wing grey- white siifl"used and irrorated with red-brown, the medial 

 area rather paler ; subbasal line black, excurved below costa and 

 ending at submedian fold ; anteraediai line black, forming a small 

 patch at costa, then oblique, sinuous; reniform defined by red- 

 brown and with red-brown lunule in centre, an oblique dark bar 

 above it from costa ; a spot defined by black below end of cell, 

 connected by a rather wide sinus at vein 2 with the postmedial 

 line, which is black slightly defined on outer side by whitish, 

 forming a small spot at costa, then bent outwards, oblique to vein 5 

 where it is angled outwards, then inwardly very oblique and very 

 minutely sinuous, forming a black spot above the sinus at vein 2 

 and angled inwards at vein 1 ; subterminal line diffused, whitish 

 defined on each side by brown, with a black-brown patch on its 

 inner side at costa, obliquely incurved from costa to below vein 6, 



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