CATOCALA. 25 



CATOCALID^. 



CATOCALA, Ochs. 

 Catocala bella. (Plate XLVI. fig. 10.) 



Catocala bella, Butler, Cist. Ent. ii. p. 242. u. 4 (1877). 



Allied to C. neogama; primaries slightly narrower, of a more slaty-gi-ey tint, with the outer 

 border dusky and tinted with reddish ; secondaries with a broader black central band, a 

 broader black outer border, and with the apex and fringe white instead of ochreous ; outer 

 border whitish ; secondaries below with the anterior half of the bands, the apex, and fringe 

 white instead of ochreous ; body below white. Expanse of wings 2 inches 6 lines. 



Yokohama (Jonas). 



Catocala praegnax. (Plate XLVI. fig. 11.) 

 Catocala praegnax, WalJcer, Cat. Lep. Het. xiii. p. 1213 (1857). 



Allied to C. esther (111. Lep. Het. pi. xxxiii. fig. 9), but smaller and paler; primaries 

 with the markings less defined, the whitish borders of the central lines browner ; the outer 

 line without the deep indentation near the inner margin ; the annular reniform spot at the 

 base of the first median interspace much larger : secondaries with the hairy brown streak 

 parallel to the abdominal margin abbreviated, the fringe of the abdominal margin yellower, 

 tlie central belt not reaching the abdominal margin; the external border narrower; body 

 rather paler : under surface with the postmedian transverse brown belt broader. Expanse of 

 wings 2 inches 3 lines. 



North China [Fortune) . 



Catocala zalmiuma. (Plate XLVII. fig. 3.) 

 Catocala zalmunna, Butler, Cist. Ent. ii. p. 241. n. 1 (1877). 



Closely ailed to C. electa, but much larger, the primaries of a more silver-grey tint ; the 

 reniform spot large and yellowish, the black markings finer; secondaries above more 

 distinctly shot with lilacine, the angular belt with its inferior half narrower; outer border 

 more narrowly white : primaries below with the white discal band narrower and more angular, 

 the white border confined to the apex and fringe ; secondaries with the black band more con- 

 stricted in the centre. Expanse of wings 3 inches 5 lines. 



Yokohama (Jonas); Hakodate (Whitely). 



