28 NooTUinjj. 



Catocala Jlavklalis, Grote, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. v. p. 95 (1874). 

 Catocala hinda, French, Papilio, i. p. Ill (1881). 



Head and thorax red-brown mixed wibh grey-white ; frons with 

 dark lateral bars ; teguloe with red-brown medial line and slight 

 Avhite tips : pectus Avhite tinged with red-brown, the tarsi fuscous 

 rino-ed with white ; abdomen rufous, the ventral surface white 

 tinged with rufous. Fore wing grey sui¥used with red-brown and 

 dark brown ; a curved blackish shade from base of costa to terraen 

 below apex, diffused above, extending on antemedial area to costa 

 and beyond the reniform to below costa, the costal area with a 

 whitish patch towards apex ; a sinuous black subbasal line from 

 costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line double filled in with grey, 

 angled outwards below costa and cell aud inwards in cell, a slight 

 whitish shade beyond it from costa to beloAV the cell ; reniform 

 defined by blackish and its centre by red-brown, its outer edge 

 somewhat dentate, an oblique dark striga above it from costa; a 

 small white spot defined by black l>e]ow end of cell ; postmedial line 

 black slightly defined on outer side by whitish, bent outwards beloAv 

 costa, then oblique and slightly ainuous, acutely angled outwards 

 above and below vein 5, then iuwardly oblique, dentate, and angled 

 inwards at vein 1 ; subterminal line whitish slightly defined on 

 outer side by brown, obliquely downcurved from costa to below 

 vein 7, then waved ; the veins of terminal area streaked with 

 blackish ; a series of blackish stride slightly defined on outer side 

 by whitish before termen. Hind wing deep orange, the basal and 

 iiiner areas suffused with red-brown ; an obliquely curved medial 

 black band from costa to submedian fold where its inner edge is 

 incurved, its outer edge excurved at vein 5 ; terminal area black, 

 its inner edge slightly incurved at vein 2 ; the termen narrowly 

 yellow towards apex, then with slight yellow marks in the inter- 

 spaces to vein 2; cilia yellowish white, chequered with brown at 

 veins 6 to 2, brown towards iornns. Underside of fore wing with 

 the basal half pale yellow with an oblique brown antemedial shade 

 from costa to vein 1, an obliciiie medial black band narrowing to 

 inner margin followed by a narrow yellowish white band, terminal 

 area black shading to brown at termen and white at apex ; hind 

 wing as above but the basal costal area brownish white, the post- 

 medial area white to vein 5. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing without blackish suffusion from base of costa 

 to termen below apex. 



Ab. 2. scintiHans. Fore wing suffused Avith black-brown from 

 base to subterminal line except at base of inner area. 



Ab. 3. flavidalis. Hind Aving clear yellow. 



Nab. Canada; U.S.A., Eastern, Middle, and Central States, 1 S, 

 1 5 , New York (Doubleday), 1 $ , Ohio, 1 c^ , 4 $ , Columbus, 2 d' , 

 1 2 5 Wisconsin, Illinois, loAva, Keokok, 1 2 , Kansas (Snoiu), 1 $ , 

 Texas, Dallas (Boll), 1 J , 1 $ • E.vj'. 68-76 millim. 



Larva. French, Can. Ent. xx. p. 170. 

 - Dirty white faintly tinged with green; seven very faint purplish 

 stripes at sides defined by blackish dots most distinct at inter- 



