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dark brown below end of cell confluent with the postmedial line, 

 which is blackish, bent outwards below costa, then oblique and 

 sinuous, acutely angled outwards above and below vein 5, then 

 waved, at vein '2 forming the sinus below end of cell and strongly 

 angled inwards at vein 1 ; subterminal line indistinct, greyish 

 slightly defined on outer side by brown, waved, oblique from costa 

 to below vein 6 where it is met by a faint oblique shade from 

 termen below apex ; a series of blackish points before termen 

 defined on outer side by white. Hind wing black-bj'own with a 

 cupreous tinge. Underside of fore wing black-brown, a bluish 

 white patch at base, a small whitish patch in and below end of 

 cell, postmedial band uarrow, pale^ whitish at costa, oblique from 

 costa to vein 4, some whitish on apical part of costa ; cilia 

 chequered whitish and browi; ; hind wing with the basal and inner 

 areas bluish white, the rest of wing black-brown, postmedial band 

 narrow, whitish, obli(]iie and sinuous to vein 4 and ending a,t 

 tornus. 



Ab. 1. edna. Fore wing with strong sinuous black streak below 

 the cell to beyond the anteniedial line. 



Ab. 2. lucetta. Similar, but fore wing with the basal streak 

 more diffused and a blackish fascia from termen below apex to the 

 reuiform, its upper edge angled at vein 6 and its lo-wer edge 

 diffused. 



Ilab. U.S.A., Middle, Central, and Southern States, JN^ew York, 

 4 cT , ^ $ type. Exp. 70-78 millim, 



Lai-va. Food-plant : Hickory, 



7134. Catahapta insolabilis. (Plate CXCII. fig, 5.) 



Catocala insolabilis, G-iien, Nopt. iii. p. 9t (1852J ; Streck. Lep. Rhop. (fc 

 Het. p. S3, pi. V. f. 1 ; Grote, Bull. Buff, Soc. Nat, Sci. iii, p. 187, pi. v. 

 f. 3 ; Smith, Cat, Noct. jY. Aid. p. 353. 



Head and thorax grey mixed with reddish brown and dark 

 brown, the tegulse whitish at base and with dark medial line ; 

 palpi fuscous white at base and with white ring at extremity of 

 2ucl joint; frons black at sides; shoulders with black streaks; 

 pectus and legs white, the latter irrorated with brown, the fore and 

 mid tibiae and the tarsi with black bands ; abdomen fuscous brown, 

 the ventral surface white. Fore wing blue-grey tinged in parts 

 with red-brown and thickly irrorated with dark brown, the inner 

 area strongly suffused with dark brown ; subbasal line black- 

 brown, excurved below costa and ending at submedian fold ; ante- 

 medial line double, the inuer line indistinct, oblique, waved ; 

 reniform small, elliptical, red-brown faintly defined by dark brown 

 and with an oblique red-brown shade above it from costa ; an 

 indistinct spot defined by dark brown below end of cell, connected 

 with the postmedial line, which is black-brown, bent outwards 

 below costa, then oblique and sinuous, acutely angled outwards 



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