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On new species o/"Catocala a7id Sypna from Japan; by Arthur 

 G. Butler, F.L.S. 



CATOCALID^. 



1. Cafocala Zalmunna, n. sp. 



Closely allied to C. electa, but much larger, the primaries of 

 a more silver-grey tint ; the renif orm 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 rather 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 constricted in the centre. Expanse 3 inches 

 5 lines. 



Yokohama (Jonas) ; Hakodate (Whitely). P.rit. Mus. 



2. Catocala nivea, n. sp. 



Primaries grey, striated with greyish-brown, three angulated 

 transverse brownish belts, the outer and inner ones interrupted 

 at both extremities by irregular black lines bordered with 

 greenish- white, the central one also interrupted by the reniform 

 spot Avhich is cream colour bordered with greenish-white, veins 

 spotted with black and white ; an undulated brownish discal 

 belt, a marginal series of black edged quadrate white spots, the 

 third of which is connected with the black line on the outer 

 transverse angulated belt by a longitudinal jet-black stripe ; 

 secondaries white, with an abbreviated angiilated band just 

 beyond the end of the ceil, an irregularly arched discal band 

 a series of convex submarginal hturas, and a /\ shaped markhig 

 near the apical margin, black : head white ; collar bi-own, white 

 in front, crossed by two dark brown lines ; thorax white speckled 

 with grey and black, abdomen grey : wings below white, with 

 irregular central black belt ; base grey ; a broad blackish discal 

 band ; outer border of primaries greyish-brown, fi'inge white ; 

 secondaries with a grey spot at the end of the cell ; outer border 

 sparsely speckled with brown, more densely on the upper dis- 

 coidal interspace : body below Avhity-brown. Expanse 4 inches 

 3 lines. 



Yokohama (Jonas). Brit. Mus. 



A marvellously distinct species. 



