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at base, an oblique medial white patch from below costa to vein 2, 

 postmedial band white, oblique to vein 4 and obsolescent towards 

 inner margin, the apex greyish, cilia Avhite, brownish at tips ; hind 

 wiug with the basal and inner areas white tinged with brown, the 

 rest of wing black-brown, postmedial baud white, oblique and 

 sinuous to vein 4 and ending at tornus. 



Ab. 1. curvata. Pore wing with sinuous black fascia below the 

 cell to near middle of wing. 



Hah. U.S.A., Eastern, Middle, and Central States, New York, 

 2^,25, Illinois, Mississippi. Exp. 74 millim. 



7144. Catabapta badia. (Plate CXCIII. fig. 5.) 



Catocala hadia, Grote & Eob. Proc. Ent. See. Phil. vi. p. 22, pi. iv. f. 1 



(1866) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 348. 

 Catocala 2iha-be, H. Edw. Papilio, iv. p. 12.5 (1884). 



Head and thorax bright rufous ; antennae tinged with fuscous ; 

 abdomen pale rufous. Pore wing rufous tinged with greyish ; a 

 sinuous red-brown subbasal line from costa to submedian fold ; a 

 bright rufous shade from subcostal nervure to vein 1 before the 

 antemedial line, which is red-brown^ obliquely curved from costa to 

 submedian fold, incurved at vein 1 ; a broad bright rufous shade on 

 outer part of medial area and beyond the postmedial line ; reniform 

 faintly paler obscurely defined by red-brown and its centre defined 

 by red-brown ; postmedial line red-brown, indistinct, slightly beiit 

 outwards below costa, then minutely waved and excurved, between 

 veins 3 and 2 forming a sinus below end of cell, then escUrved 

 at submedian fold and incurved above vein 1 ; subterminal line 

 represented by an oblique pale shade. Hind wing orange, this 

 basal and inner areas with some red-brown suffusion ; a curVed 

 black medial band with irregularly sinuous edges ; a broad blackish 

 terminal band, its inner edge minutely waved ; the termen narrowly 

 orange towards apex ; cilia brown, yellowish towards tornus. 

 Underside of fore wing yellow ; an oblique blackish antemedial 

 shade from below costa before middle to vein 1, an obliquely curved 

 black medial band, a slight curved fuscous subterminal shade, the 

 terminal area red-brown ; hind wing as above, but the costal area 

 irrorated with red-brown, the costal area towards apex and the 

 termen except towards tornus red-brown. 



Hah. U.S.A., Eastertl and Middle States, 1 ^, 2 ^^ Exp. 

 60-64 millim. 



Larva. Andrews, Can. Ent. viii. p. 198. 



Marked with dark grey, the medial somites white or pale grey 

 below. Pood-plant : Myrica cerifera. 



7145. Catabapta innubens. (Plate CXCIII. fig. 6.) 



Catocala innubens, Guen. Noct. iii. p. 98 (1852) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. 



p. 348. 

 Catocala scintiUccns, Grote & Eob. Proc. Ent. Sec. Phil. vi. p. 28, pi. iii. 



f. 6 (1866). 



