198 NocxuiD.?;. 



*7319. Ephesia vallantini. 



Caiocala vallantini, Obertli. Et. Eut. six. p. 36, pi. vi. f. 53 (189i) ; Staud. 

 Cat. Lep. pal. p. 250. 



S . Head and thorax grey mixed with brown; abdomen yellowish 

 "■rey. Fore wing grey ; the basal area from costa before middle to 

 middle of inner margin and the terminal area purplish grey tinged 

 with red-brown ; subbasal line represented by double brown striae 

 from costa ; anteraedial line double, brown, rather oblique, with 

 an oblique dark shade on it in submedian interspace ; reniforra a 

 slight blackish lunule placed near the inner edge of a patch of 

 purple-grey suffusion extending from costa to vein 3 and defined 

 on outer side by the faint brownish postmedial line which is 

 excurved below costa and oblique below vein 4 ; subterminal line 

 indistinct, double, dark, excurved below costa, then somewhat 

 oblique ; a fine waved black terminal line. Hind wing orange- 

 yellow ; a slight dark discoidal lunule ; terminal area black, 

 narrowing to a point at tornus and leaving some yellowish on 

 termen at apex and submedian fold ; cilia ochreous white, 

 chequered with blackish at veins 6 to 4. Underside of fore 

 wing pale ochreous, a faint oblique brownish antemedial shade 

 from below costa to submedian fold, the terminal area fuscous 

 except at tornus, cilia chequered whitish and fuscous ; hind wing 

 ochreous with a faint reddish shade, the terminal area fuscous 

 narrowing to a point at vein 1, cilia chequered ochreous white and 

 fuscous. 



Hah. Ai.GEEiA, Bone; Tunis, Ain Draham (Faroult) in Coll. 

 llothschild. Exj). 44 millim. 



Sect. II. Thorax clothed with hair with a few scales mixed. 



A. Fore wing with the ground-colour leaden grey cohimhina. 



B. Fore wing with the ground-colour not leaden grey. 



a. Fore wing grey, the basal area suffusad with dark 



brown. 



ai. Foi'e wing with the antemedial line very oblique 



from costa to submedian fold, the postmedial line 



very oblique and slightly dentate between veins 4 



and 2 xarippc. 



i\ Fore wing with the antemedial line less oblique from 

 costa to submedian fold, the postmedial hne less 

 oblique and more dentate between veins 4 and 2. 

 a". Fore wing with the antemedial line strongly angled 



outwards above inner margin invasa. 



h'^. Fore wing with the antemedial line slightly angled 



outwards above inner margin fulminca. 



h. Fore wing pale ochreous, the interspaces suffused with 



red-brown except on costal area cBsiimahilis. 



