BED UNDERWING. 



Catocala Nupta. 

 PLATE XXVI. Fig. 2. 



Phal. Noct. Nupta, Linn. ; Don. vii. PL 224 Red Under- 



wing, Harris'' Aurel. PI. 18 Hemigeometra Nupta, //in- 



worth, 268. 



EXTENT of the wings about three inches or up- 

 wards; the surface of the upper pair dark grey, 

 with transverse waved streaks and spots of brown 

 and obscure yellow, the hinder border with a series 

 of transverse lunulated spots, and two waved dusky 

 lines on the fringe. The underwings are of a deep 

 and beautiful blood-red inclining to carmine, with 

 a curved sinuated band of deep black near the 

 middle, which tapers and disappears before reaching 

 the inner edge of the wing, and a broad marginal 

 band sinuated internally; the fringe pure white, 

 with vestiges of ferruginous spots at the base. The 

 thorax and abdomen are brownish-grey above, but 

 white beneath ; the legs brown, ringed with white 

 on the tarsi. The under side of the upper wings is 

 black, with a faint bluish play of colour, and three 

 white transverse bands, the central one abbreviated, 



