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segmental folds; somite 8 with a prominent black patch formed by- 

 three spots at e ich side separated b}' a short orange dorsal stripe ; 

 substiginatal stripe orange at somites 4 and 5 ; somites 1 to 3 with 

 the rows of spots distinct ; pilifei'ous spots small, black ; ventral 

 surface j'ellowish white, with black marks between the feet ; no 

 fringes. Pood-plants : Honey Locust and Walnut. 5. 



7146. Catabapta muliercula, (Plate CXCIII. fig. 7.) 



Cafocaki nmliercula, Guen. Noct. iii. p. 97 (1852) ; Streck. Lep. Rhop. & 



Het. p. 74, pi. ix. f. 9 ; Smith, Cit. Noct. N. Am. p. 348. 

 Catocala peramans, Hulst, Bull. Brooklyn Ent. Soo. vii. p. 50 (1SS4). 



Head and thorax red-brown mixed with rufous ; tegulse rufous 

 at base and with blackish medial line; patagia with some black 

 scales near edges ; pectus and legs red-brown and greyish, the 

 tarsi blackish ringed with white ; abdomen red-brown, the ventral 

 surface whitish tinged with rufous. Fore wing red-brown ; sub- 

 basal line double, black, waved, from costa to submedian fold ; 

 antemedial line double, the inner line indistinct, the outer black, 

 obliijue and minutely waved to submedian fold, incurved at vein 1, 

 an oblique rufous sh;ide beyond it from costa to median nervure : 

 reniform defined by black, its annnlus with some grey scales, its 

 centre defined by red-brown and black, its outer edge somewhat 

 dentate, an oblique black bar above it from costa ; an oblique grey 

 and rufous spot defined by black below end of cell, connected by a 

 sinus on vein 2 with the postmedial line which is black slightly 

 defined on outer side by greyish, bent outwards below costa, then 

 obli(pie, acutely angled outwards above and below vein 5, then 

 oblique and waved, bidentate at submedian fold and angled inwards 

 at vein 1 ; an indistinct waved whitish subterminal line, oblique to 

 below vein 6, where it is met by an oblique black shade from termen 

 below apex; the veins of terminal area streaked with blackish, 

 a series of black points before termen defined on outer side by 

 whitish. Hind wing orange, the base and inner area dark brown ; 

 an obliquely curved black medial band, its outer edge excurved at 

 vein 5 and submedian fold ; a broad black terminal band, its inner 

 edge incurved at veins 2 and 1 ; the termen narrowly yellow 

 towards apex ; cilia white towards apex, then brown slightly 

 mixed with whitish and with some yellow scales at base. Under- 

 side of fore wing orange, an oblique black-brown shade from below 

 costa before middle to vein 1, an obliquely curved black medial 

 band, terminal area blackish shading to brown, its inner edge 

 curved ; hind wing as above, but the costal area towards base and 

 on postmedial area ochreous suffused with brown, the basal and 

 inner areas without brown, the termen not yellow towards apex. 



Ab. 1. i^eramans. Fore wing darker; hind wing almost entirely 

 black, the orange bands broken up into patches. 



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