194: NocTuiDji:. 



then slightly sinuous ; a crenulate blackish tcrmiual line ; a dark 

 line near base of cilia. Hind wing golden yellow, the inner area 

 slightly suffused with brown ; a rather narrow black medial band, 

 oblique to submedian fold, then bent inwards to inner margin, its 

 outer edge slightly excurved at vein 5 ; a terminal blackish band 

 from costa to just below vein 2, where it is connected by a slight 

 bar with a patch on vein 1 ; a yellow patch at apex ; cilia yellowish 

 with a brown line through them from apex to vein 2. Underside 

 of fore wing whitish, the costal edge brown, an oblique blackish 

 medial band, a curved blackish subterminal band, the termen with 

 brown irroration at apex ; hind wing as above but whitish, the 

 medial band obliquely waved. 



Hah. Punjab, Kulu {Hocking), 5 c? , 2 5 type, Sultanpur 

 (&'. Youvg), 3 c? , 1 ? • Exy. 50-54 millim. 



7315. Ephesia similis. (Plate CCI. fig. 15.) 



Tlialana amasia, Smith & Abbot, Ins. Georgia, ii. p. 179, pi. 90, lower fig. 



(1797). 

 Catocala similis, W. H. Edw. Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. ii. p. 511 (1864); 



Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 333. 

 Catocala formula, Grote& Eob. Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. -vi. p. 27. pi. iv. f. 5 



(1866). 

 Catocala aholah, Street. Lep. Rhop. & Het. p. 96, pi. xi. f. 8 (1874). 

 Catocala isahella, H. Edw. Bull. Brooklju Ent. Soc. iii. p. 00 (1880). 



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

 white at base and with black patch on 2nd joint ; frons with 

 lateral black bars ; an angled black-brown line between antennae; 

 tegulse with black-brown line near tips ; pectus and legs white, 

 the fore and mid tibise irrorated with brown, the tarsi black ringed 

 with white ; abdomen yellow tinged with rufous, the ventral 

 surface white. Fore wing bluish white suffused and irrorated 

 with reddish brown ; subbasal line black, excurved below costa 

 and ending at submedian fold, a black point beyond it above 

 vein 1 : a narrow rufous band before the antemedial line, which is 

 black, excurved, incurved at vein 1 and again excurved above 

 inner margin ; reniform blue-white defined by blackish and its 

 centre by red-brown, its upper extremity produced, a dark mark 

 above it on costa ; a rather irregular spot defined by black below 

 end of cell ; postmedial line black defined on outer side by a rufous 

 band, bent outwards below costa, then slightly oblique to above 

 vein 5, where it is slightly angled outwards, then inwardly oblique, 

 excurved above and below vein 5 and angled inwards at vein 1 ; 

 subterminal line whitish defined on outer side by brown, minutely 

 dentate ; an oblique dark shade from termen below apex with 

 some white above it on costal area ; a series of small black spots 

 before termen and a terminal series of black striae ; cilia chequered 

 whitisl and brown at tips. Hind wing golden yellow, the inner 

 area with some red-brown suffusion, an obliquely curved black 

 medial band from costa to vein 1, its outer edge angled outwards 

 at vein 5 ; a terminal black band from costa to just below vein 2 



