20 NOCTL'IDj;. 



outer side by daik brown and oblique from eosta tc vein 6 ; a series 

 of blackish points before termen defined on outer side by white 

 i:)oints. Hind wing blaclc-brown with some greyish hair on basal 

 and inner areas ; cilia creamy white intersected with brown. 

 Underside of fore wing black-brown, the basal area whitish, an 

 oblique whitish medial patch from subcostal nervure to vein 2, a 

 narrow whitish postmcdial band oblique from eosta to vein 4 and 

 obsolete below submedian fold, terminal area greyish, the cilia with 

 a series of white spots at base ; hind wing black-brown, the basal 

 and inner areas whitish, a narrow sinuous whitish postmedial band, 

 obli(]ue from eosta to vein 4, some whitish at extreme apex. 



Ab. 1. suhvirklis. Head and thorax more strongly irrorated 

 Avith white ; fore wing suffused with bronze-green and without any 

 of the red-brown tones, the spot below end of cell small and 

 separated from the postmedial line. 



Hah. U.S.A., Middle and Southern States, Texas (Bel/rage), 2 6 , 

 1 5 , Dallas (Boll), 1 d type subviridis. Exp. 82 millim. 



7137. Catabapta lacrymosa. (Plate CXCII. fig. 8.) 



Caiocala lacrymosa, Guen. Noct. iii. p. 93 (1852); Streek, Lep. Rhop. & 



Het. p. 18, pi. iii. f. 3; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 3,92. 

 Caiocala ulalume, Streek. Lep. Rhop. & BTet. p. 132 (1877). 

 Caiocala 'paulina, H. Edwards, Bull. Brooklyn Ent. Soc. iii. p. 54 (1880). 

 Caiocala eveliria, French, Papilio, i. p. 110 (1881). 

 Caiocala zelica, Fr» ncli, Papilio, i. p. Ill (1881). 

 Caiocala emilia, H. Edwards, Papilio, i. p. 117 (1881). 



Head and thorax black-brown mixed with white and some red- 

 brown ; palpi white at base; tegulie with dark lines at middle and 

 tips; pectus white ; legs white irrorated with red-brown, the fore 

 tibife and the tarsi banded with blackish ; abdomen reddish brown 

 tinged with grey, the ventral surface white except at extremity. 

 Fore wing grey-white, thickly irrorated and in parts suffused with 

 red-brown ; subbasal line black slightly defiued on outer side by 

 white, angled outwards below eosta and ending at submedian fold; 

 antemedial line double, black-brown filled in with whitish, the 

 outer line with dark brown spot at eosta, oblique, waved, angled 

 inwards at vein 1 ; reniform large, with red-brown centre with 

 whitish lunule on it and Avliite annulus defined by black-brown, its 

 outer edge irregular; a small elliptical whitish spot defined by 

 black-brown below end of cell ; postmedial line black slightly 

 defined on outer side by white, bent outwards below eosta, then 

 oblique and sinuous, acutely angled outwards above and below 

 vein 5, then dentate and strongly angled inwards above vein 1, the 

 area beyond it red-brown to the subterminal line, which is whitish 

 defined on outer side by black-brown, oblique and sinuous to vein 6, 

 then dentate ; a series of black points before termen defined on 

 outer side by white ; cilia red-brown intersected by whitish at tips. 

 Hind wing black-brown, the hair at base and on inner area greyish ; 

 cilia pure white except towards tornus, intersected with black- 



