200 NociuiD^r. 



7321. Ephesia xarippe. 



Catocala xarippe, Butl. Cist. Ent. ii. p. 243 (1877); id. III. Het. B.M. ii. 

 p. 39, pi. 33. f. 8 ; Siaud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 249. 



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

 with the 2ud joint black, white in front towards base and at 

 extremity ; frons white with lateral black bars ; tegulae with 

 blackish lines at middle and tips, the prothorax with dark bar; 

 pectus white tinged with yellow ; legs irrorated with brown, the 

 fore and mid tibise with black streaks at base and bars near 

 extremities, the tarsi blackish ringed with white ; abdomen rufous, 

 the ventral surface white tinged with rufous. Fore Aving white 

 suffused in parts with red-brown and irrorated with dark brown, 

 the veins of terminal area with slight blackish streaks, the basal 

 area suffused with red-brown deepening to black-brown before the 

 antemedial line; subbasal line black, excurved below costa and 

 ending at vein 1 ; antemedial line black, expanding into a patch at 

 costa, then oblique, sinuous, angled outwards above inner margin, 

 an oblique white shade beyond it from costa to below the cell ; 

 reniform rather narrow, defined by black and its centre by brown, 

 an oblique dark shade above it from costa and a black patch beyond 

 it; a spot defined by black below end of cell connected by a sinus 

 on vein 2 with the postmedial line, which is black, forming a spot 

 defined on outer side by white at costa, bent outwards below costa, 

 then obliquely downcurved, very acutely angled outwards above 

 a.nd below vein 5, then inwardly oblique, dentate, excurved at 

 submedian fold and strongly angled inwards at vein 1, a blackish 

 patch beyond it on costa ; subterininal line rather diffused, white, 

 incurved below costa, dentate above and below vein 5, then 

 minutely waved, an oblique dark shade from termen below apex 

 with blackish streaks on the veins ; a crenulate black terminal line. 

 Hind wing yellow, the hair on inner margin brown ; a brown 

 fascia in submedian interspace to the obliquely curved blackish 

 medial band from costa to submedian fold, its outer edge angled 

 outwards at vein 5 ; terminal area black, its inner edge oblique to 

 vein 4 and incurved at veins 2 and 1 ; the termen narrowly yellow 

 at apex, then with slight yellow marks in the interspaces ; cilia 

 white, chequered with brown at veins 6 to 2. Underside of fore 

 wing with the basal half yellowish white, an oblique brown 

 antemedial shade from below costa to vein 1, an oblique black 

 medial band, narrowing to inner margin, its outer edge strongly 

 excurved at middle, terminal area blackish, its inner edge oblique 

 to vein 4, the apex whitish, cilia white at base ; hind wang as 

 above but whitish, the inner area tinged Avith yellow, the costal 

 area irrorated with brown, the fascia in submedian interspace 

 obsolescent. 



Hah. jArA]sr, Hakodate, 1 5 type.; Kioto (Lewis), 1 2 > J^agahama 

 (Leech), 2^,1$, Sendai (Leech), 1 c?, Yokohama (ManUy), 

 1 9. Exio. 00-66 millim. 



