] 'Jo NOCTDID.^. 



by white points before termeii and a series of black striae on tcrmcii ; 

 cilia rufous mixed with white. Hind wing golden yellow, the 

 inner area sufFased with rufous ; a narrow black medial band oblique 

 to submedian fold, then bent inwards, its outer edge excurved at 

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

 a patch at vein 1, the inner edge of the baud incurved at vein 2; 

 the termen narrowly yellow towards apex ; cilia whitish, chequered 

 with brown at veins 6 to 2 and towards tornus. Underside of 

 fore wing with the basal half yellow, a faint brown auteraedial 

 shade from below costa to submedian fold, an oblique blackish 

 medial band, bent inwards and narrowing to inner margin, its 

 inner edge incurved at end of cell and its outer edge excurved at 

 vein 5, the terminal area blackish, its inner edge curved, the apex 

 Avhite, a series of slight white marks in the interspaces before 

 termen, cilia chequered white and blackish ; hind wing as above, 

 the costal, basal and postmedial areas white, the medial band with 

 its inner edge incurved at discocellulars and ending at submedian 

 fold, the terminal band confluent with the patch at vein 1, the 

 apical patch white. 



Ab. 1. virens. Fore wing with the medial area white, some 

 olive-green suffusion on antemedial area at costa and inner margin, 

 below end of cell, and on terminal area. 



Bab. U.S.A., New York, Illinois, Georgia, 1 $ , Kansas (Snow), 

 1 c?. Exp. 46-52 millim. 



Larva. Food-plant, Pride of India or Oak. 



7317. Ephesia connubialis. (Plate COI, fig. 17.) 



Caiocala connubialis, Guen. Noct. iii. p. 105 (1852); Sraitb, Cat. Noef:. 



N. Am. p. 334. 

 Catocala amasia, Streck. Lep. Rhop. & Het. p. 77, pi. ix. f. 12 (nee Smith 



& Abb.). 

 Catocala scmcta, Hulsfc, Bull. Brooklyn Ent. Soc. vii. p. 38 (1884). 



Head and thorax white mixed with some pale brown and black ; 

 palpi white with black patches at sides of joints ; frons with lateral 

 black bars ; an angled black line between antennae; tegula3 with 

 blackish medial band, the prothorax with narrow black band, the 

 patagia with some black scales near edges, the metathorax with 

 bla^k patch ; pectus and legs white, the fore and mid tibiae slightly 

 irrorated with brown and with black bars near base and extremities, 

 the tarsi black ringed with white ; abdomen yellow tinged with 

 rufous, the ventral surface vvhite. Fore wing white slightly 

 irrorated with red-brown, the antemedial and terminal areas 

 suffused with red-brown; a small black spot at base of cell; sub- 

 basal line black, from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line 

 strong, black, waved, slightly oblique ; reniform blackish with 

 white annulus incompletely defined by black, its outer edge some- 

 what dentate, a blackish and brown patch above it on costa ; 

 a white spot defined by black below end of cell, its outer edge 



