202 



KOCi'UID.E. 



7323. Ephesia fulminea. 



Phalmna fidminca, Scop. Eut. Carn. p. 206 (1763) ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. 



p. 249. 

 yoctua paranympha, Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. xii. p. 842 (1767) ; Esp. Schmett. 



iv. pi. 105. ff. 1-3 ; Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. ff. 336, 601 ; Godt. Lep. 



Fr. V. p. 84, pi. 49. f. 3 ; Fr. Neue Beitr. pi. 527. 

 Cafocala pi-utonymfha, Boisd. Gen. & Ind. Meth. p. 168 (1840) ; Guen. 



Noct. iii. p. 103, pi. 15. f. 12. 

 Catocala koreana, Staud. Eom. Mem. Vi. p. 587 (1892). 



Head and thorax violaceous grey suffused with red-brown ; 2nd 

 joint of palpi with some blackish towards extremity ; irons with 

 lateral black bars ; tegulse whitish with two black-brown medial 

 bands, the prothorax with black-brown band; pectus and legs 

 whitish tinged with red-brown, the tibiae irrorated with brown, the 

 fore tibias Avith black and white band at extremity, the tarsi 

 blackish ringed with white ; abdomen rufous, the Tentral surface 

 whitish tinged Avith rufous. Fore wing violaceous grey tinged 

 with red-brown, the basal area suffused with red-brown deepening 



towards the antemedial line, the outer part of medial area with a 

 red-brown shade ; subbasal line black, angled outwards below costa 

 and ending at submedian fold ; antemedial line black with a white 

 striga before it at costa, diffused, oblique and slightly sinuous to 

 submedian fold, then waved, an oblique whiter shade beyond it 

 from costa to below the cell ; reniform rather narrow, with red- 

 brown centre and grey annulus defined by black, two short black 

 streaks beyond it and an oblique black bar above it from costa ; a 

 small whitish spot defined by black below end of cell connected by 



