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two linear marks also above tlie anterior and posterior spiracle ; liead with transverse 

 black lines ; middle and liind feet reddish-brown. Pupa ferruginous-brown. 

 " Feeds on Diospyros." {Dr. Thtvaites.) 



HYPOCALA ANGULIPALPIS (Plate 160, Fig. 4, ^). 

 Hypocala angulipalpis, Gucuee, Noct. iii. p. 77 (1852). 



Male : forewing pale brownish-cinereous, sparsely speckled with indistinct black 

 scales ; an obsolescent transverse antemedial, and a postmedial zigzag brownish line, 

 a more or less prominent blackish streak below base of the cell, and a transverse 

 submarginal pale ochreous-bordered angulated line with a contiguous outer purplish- 

 brown lunular line ; a slender black marginal line ; a black more or less indistinct 

 orbicular spot and reniform mark ; the costal area from base to the obsolescent discal 

 line beyond the reniform mark more or less pale ochreous : hindwing ochreous-yellow, 

 with senescent-black streaks from the base, a broad confluent spot at end of the cell, 

 and an irregularly-angulated outer band which is excavated and disconnected from 

 the margin for some distance from the anal end ; cilia yellow. Thorax, head, palpi, 

 and legs brownish-cinereous, legs with darker bands ; abdomen yellow, with dorsal 

 black bands. 



Expanse Ito inch. 



Family CATOCALIDiE. 



Imago with ample, broad wings : hindwing gaily coloured and with dark bands. 

 In repose the wings form a very flat roof. Antennae long ; thorax and abdomen 

 slightly crested. 



Larva with sixteen legs, looping the anterior segments when walking ; elongated, 

 flattened beneath; with lateral fleshy filaments above the legs. Pupa generally 

 efl[lorescent, enclosed in a slight cocoon of silk spun amongst leaves or bark. 



{Stainton.) 



Genus CATOCALA. 



Catocala, Sehrank, Fauna Boica, ii. 2, p. 158 (1802) ; Oehs. Sclimett. Eur. iv. p. 94; Guenee, Noct. 

 iii. p. 80 ; Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xiii. p. 1179. 



Wings ample : forewing elongate, trigonate ; costa arched, apex obtusely 

 pointed, exterior margin obUque, scalloped, posterior margin convex at base ; cell 

 extending half the length ; first subcostal emitted at two-fifths before end of the cell, 

 second at one-sixth, trifid, fifth from end of the cell and touching third close to its 

 base ; discocellular bent near each end, concave in middle, radials from the angles ; 

 middle median from angle close to end of the cell, lower at two-fifths ; submedian 

 slightly recurved : hindwing broad, exterior margin convex, scalloped, angular at 

 end of the submedian ; cell extending two-fifths the length ; two subcostals from 



