24 KOcruiDji;. 



band oblique anrl sinuous from costa to vein 4 and ending on 

 termen just above tornus; cilia chequered with brown from below 

 apex to vein 2. 



Ab. 1. iiwrlermi. Much smaller, 74 millim. ; hind wing with the 

 pale postmedial band showing faintly on uppersidc. 



Jhth. U.S.A., Pennsylvania, Central and Soulhern States, Texas, 

 Dallas (Boll), 2 J , 1 $ . E.rp. 94-100 millim. Type t J mochrua 

 \n JMus. Roemer. 



Larva. Eood-plant: Walnut. 



7141. Catahapta retecta. (Plate CXCIII. fig. 2.) 



Catocala refectUj Grote, Tran?. Am. Erit. Soe. iv. p. 4 (1872) ; Streck. Lep. 



Khop. & Het. p. 71, pi. ix. t. 2 ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 351. 

 Catocala luctuosa, Hiilst, Bull. Brook! vii Ent. Soc. TJi. p. 5o (1884). 



Head and thorax grey-white tinged with reddish brown ; palj)i 

 white at base, the 2Md joint towards extremity and sides of irons 

 dark brown 5 tegulce with black line at middle and brown line near 

 tips ; patagia with black line close to edges ; pectus white ; legs 

 white irrorated with brown, the fore tibife at extremity and mid 

 libise at middle with black bands, the tarsi banded black and white ; 

 abdomen greyish brown, the ventral surface brownish white. Fore 

 wing pale grey tinged in parts with red-brown, especially on post- 

 medial area, and irrorated with black-browni ; a black streak in 

 submedian fold from base to the antemedial line; subbasal line 

 fine, black, excurvcd below costa and ending at submedian fold ; 

 antemedial line double filled in with whitish, the inner line brown, 

 the outer black, slightly angled outwards below costa, then oblique 

 and sintlous, a rather oblique black streak beyond it beloAV the cell ; 

 reniform large with reddish brown centre and white annulus defined 

 by blackish, rather irregularly elliptical ; an oblique dark line from 

 middle of costa to the reniform ; a curved white mark defined by 

 black below end of cell formed by a sinus of the postmedial line, 

 which is black slightly defined on outer side by white, bent out- 

 wards 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, strongly angled outwards in submedian 

 fold and inwards on vein 1, a, black streak in sublnedian fold from 

 it to the subtermiual line, which is white slightly defined on outer 

 side by brown, waved, oblique from costa to below vein 6 ; a series 

 of blackish points before termen ; the veins of terminal area streaked 

 with black. Hind wing black-brown ; cilia pure white. Underside 

 of fore wing black-brown, the apex grey, the basal area and basal 

 half of costa Avhitish, an oblique whitish medial patch from sub- 

 costal nervure to vein 2, a white postmedial band, oblique from 

 costa to vein 4 and obsolescent towards inner margin ; hind wing 

 with the basal and inner areas w^hitish, the rest of wing black- 

 browm, a w^hite postmedial band oblique from costato vein 4, then 

 rather maculate and ending on inner margin just above tornus. 

 Ab. 1. luctmsa. Fore wing more strongly tinged with rufous. 



