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and a patch at vein 1, the inner edge of the band incurved at 

 vein 2 ; the termen very narrowly yellow at apex, then with 

 slight marks in the interspaces ; cilia whitish, chequered with brown 

 at veins 6 to 2. Underside of fore wing yellowish white, the costa 

 irrorated with brown, some brownish suffusion before middle in 

 and below the cell, an oblique black-brown medial band, obsolete 

 at inner margin and with its outer edge excurved at vein 5, the 

 terminal area blackish, its inner edge curved, some whitish at apex 

 and a series of slight marks in the interspaces, cilia chequered 

 white and blackish ; hind wing as above, but the costal area 

 yellowish white and without the brown on inner area. 



Ab. 1. Isabella. Fore wing whiter and less suffused with brown. 



Ab. 2. aJiolah. Fore wing silvery grey, a large black patch 

 beyond the reniform confluent with the oblique apical shade. 



Hab. U.S.A., New York, 2 cJ , 2 ? , Rhode L, Texas. Kvp. 

 44-52 millim. 



Larua. Smith & Abbot, Ins. Georgia, ii. p. 179, pi. 90. 



Greenish grey with protuberance on each segment; dorsal, sub- 

 dorsal, and stigmatal dark lines ; each somite with an oblique 

 lateral line. Food-plant, Pride of India or Oak. 



7316. Ephesia amasia. (Plate CCI. fig. 16.) 



Fhalwna amasia. Smith & Abbot, Ins. Georgia, ii. p. 179, pi. 90, upper 

 fig. (1797); Westw. Jardine's Nat. Libr. xxxii. p. 205, pi. 26. f. 3; 

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



Catocala cordelia, H. Edvv. Eull. Brooklyn Ent. Soc. iii. p. 59 (1880). 



Catocala virens, French, Can. Ent. xviii. p. 162 (1886). 



Head and thorax bluish white mixed with dark red-brown ; 

 palpi with the 2nd joint dark brown except at tip ; frons with 

 lateral black bars ; tegulse with slight brown medial line, the 

 patagia with some black scales near edges ; pectus and legs white, 

 the fore and mid tibiae with black streaks near base and bars near 

 extremities, the tarsi black ringed with white ; abdomen grey 

 suffused with rufous, the ventral surface white. Fore wing bluish 

 white, the antemedial area suffused with red-brown, the medial 

 area slightly irrorated with rufous, the terminal area irrorated with 

 dark brown ; subbasal line black, excurved below costa and ending 

 at submedian fold; antemedial line black, oblique, sinuous, almost 

 obsolete in submedian interspace ; reniform defined by some black 

 scales and with its centre defined by blackish, a brown patch 

 above it on costa ; faint traces of a small spot defined by brown 

 below end of cell ; postmedial line black towards costa, then faint, 

 defined on outer side by white and with bright rufous band beyond 

 it, bent outwards below costa, then waved, obliquely downcurved 

 to above vein 5, where it is angled outwards, then inwardly 

 oblique and with black points at the veins, excurved at submedian 

 fold and angled inwards at vein 1 ; subterminal line bluish white 

 defined on outer side by black-brown, dentate, angled inwards 

 below costa ; a series of minute black spots defined on outer side 



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