201 



7322. Epliesia invasa. (Plate CCII. fig. 1.) 



Caioccda invasa. Leech, Trans. Ent. Soc. 18C0, p. 531. 



S . Head and thorax grey tinged with brown ; palpi with the 

 2rid joint towards extremity and the 3rd joint blackish; frons 

 wath black lateral bars ; tegulse with brown medial line and tips, 

 the prothorax with narrow brown band, the patagia with some 

 brown scales near edges ; pectus ochreous white ; tibiae and tarsi 

 irrorated with fuscous and banded with blackish ; abdomen ochreous 

 brown with some dark brown at extremity, the ventral surface 

 ochreous white. Fore wing pale violaceous grey tinged in parts 

 with red-brown and slightly irrorated with dark brown ; subbasal 

 line black, angled outwards below costa and ending at median 

 nervure ; antemedial line dark brown with red-brown suffusion 

 before it, dilated at costa, very oblique and slightly sinuous, angled 

 outwards above inner margin, an oblique whitish shade beyond it 

 from costa to submedian fold and a red-brown fascia above vein 1 ; 

 reniform w'ith its centre defined by red-brown, its annulus whitish 

 defined by black, an oblique blackish bar above it from costa and 

 two black streaks bej'ond it ; a spot defined by black below end of 

 cell on the whitish area, connected by a sinus with the postmedial 

 line at vein 2; postmedial line black, bent outwards below costa, 

 then obliquely downcurved, very acutely angled outwards above 

 and below vein 5, then dentate, angled outwards at submedian fold 

 and inwards on vein 1 to near the antemedial line ; faint traces of 

 a whitish subterminal line, oblique to below vein 6, then Avaved ; 

 the veins of terminal area slightly streaked with blackish ; an 

 oblique brown shade from termen below apex ; a series of blackish 

 striae before termen slightly defined on outer side by whitish ; cilia 

 brown. Hind wing yellow; a black-brown fascia in submedinu 

 interspace from base to the black-browni medial band, which is 

 oblique from costa to submedian fold, then bent inwards and 

 ending at vein 1, its outer edge slightly angled outwards at vein 5; 

 a black subterminal band from costa to below vein 2, its outer edge 

 waved to termen between veins 6 and 2; a spot on termen at 

 vein 1. Underside of fore wdng pale yellow, an oblique brown 

 shade from below costa before middle to vein 1, an oblique black 

 postmedial band, slightly angled at submedian fold and nariowing 

 below, its outer edge angled outwards at vein 5, terminal area 

 fuscous brown with some ochreous on termen, narrowing to tornus, 

 its inner edge carved ; hind wing as above but with a dark streak 

 in cell and discoidal spot conjoined to the medial band. 



9 . Fore wing with much more red-brown suffusion before the 

 antemedial line, the area beyond the cell and postmedial line 

 suffused with browm ; hind wing with the medial band extending 

 to inner margin, the subterminal band conjoined by a slight bar to 

 the spot near tornus. 



Hah. W. Chi:na, Chang-yang {Pratt), 1 ^ , Kia-ting-fu, 1 c? <ypc. 

 E.vp. J 60, 2 68 millim. 



