30 NOCTUID^. 



Larva. Guen. Noct. iii. p. 97. 



Attenuate, narrow at extremities and dilated at middle ; reddish 

 yellow with grey subdorsal and stigraatal lines ; head with two 

 lateral white dashes. Food-plant : Myrica. 



7147. Catabapta paleogama. (Plate CXCIIT. fig. 8.) 



Catocala pahogama, Griien. Noct. iii. p. 97 (1852) ; Grote, Proc. Ent. Soc. 



Phil. iii. pp. 87, 541, pi. 3. f. 2 ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Ain. p. 349. 

 Catocala phalanga, Grote, Proc. Eat. Soc. Phil. iii. p. 86, pi. iii. f. 1 



(1865). 

 Catocala annida, Eager, Can. Ent. xiy. p. 120 (1882). 



Head and thorax grey mixed with red-brown and some blackish ; 

 palpi whitish at base and fuscous towards tips ; sides of head 

 white, the frons with lateral black bars ; tegulse with blackish 

 lines near base, at middle and near tips, the prothorax with black 

 line, the patagia with black lines near edges ; pectus white ; legs 

 white irrorated with fuscous, the tarsi black ringed with white ; 

 abdomen rufous, the crests blackish, the ventral surface whitish. 

 Fore wing pale grey tinged in parts with red-brown and irrorated 

 with dark brown ; subbasal line black, angled outwards below costa 

 and inwards in cell, ending at vein 1 ; antemedial line double filled 

 in with whitish, the inner line indistinct, oblique, irregularly 

 waved, angled inwards at vein 1 ; a slight pale shade beyond it 

 from costa to below the cell; reniform elliptical, rufous with 

 whitish annulus slightly defined by brown, an oblique dark shade 

 above it from costa ; an irregular pale spot defined by blackish 

 below end of cell ; postmedial line black slightly defined on outer 

 side by whitish, bent outwards below costa, then oblique and 

 slightly sinuous, very acutely angled outwards above and below 

 vein 5, then oblique, dentate and angled inwards at vein 1 ; sub- 

 terminal line whitish defined on outer side by blackish, angled 

 inwards below costa, then bent outwards and dentate ; the veins of 

 terminal area streaked with blackish ; a series of black points 

 before termen defined on outer side by whitish. Hind wing deep 

 orange, the basal and inner areas suffused with red-brown ; an 

 obliquely curved medial black band from costa to vein 1, expanding 

 on inner side below costa and with its outer edge angled outwards 

 at vein 5 ; a black -brown subterminal band, its inner edge angled 

 inwards at veins 2 and 1 and its outer edge emitting short streaks 

 to termen at veins 6 to 2 ; cilia orange, intersected by blackish at 

 veins 6 to 2, Underside of fore wing orange, some whitish at 

 base, an oblique irregular black-brown shade from costa before 

 middle to vein 1, an obliquely curved black medial band expanding 

 at middle and narrowing to inner margin, a curved subterminal 

 blackish band, the area beyond it grey-brown ; hind wing as above, 

 but the base whitish, the medial and subterminal bands narrower, 

 the termen irrorated with brown. 



Ab. 1. annida. Fore wing with the terminal half darker. 



Ah. 2. phalanga. Fore wing with the basal area suffused with 

 fuscous black, a fuscous black band beyond the postmedial line. 



