,36 N0CTUID2E, 



there is a black streak on it, strongly angled inwards at vein 1 ; 

 subterminal line indistinct, pale, slightly defined on outer side by 

 red-brown on the pale area, dentate, oblique from costa to below 

 vein 6 ; a slight oblique blackish shade from termen below apex ; 

 a series of black strise before termen with slight pale marks on 

 their outer sides. Hind wing orange-yellow, the basal and inner 

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

 band from costa to above inner margin, its inner edge sinuous and 

 its outer edge angled outwards at vein 5 ; terminal area black, its 

 inner edge minutely waved and incurved at vein 2 ; the termen 

 with yellow patch at apex, then with slight yellow marks in the 

 interspaces ; cilia yellow with slight dark marks at veins 6 to 2, 

 dark towards tornus. Underside of fore wing yellow, some brown 

 in middle of cell and an oblique patch below middle,_ an oblique 

 medial black band narrowing to inner margin, its inner edge 

 sinuous, a curved subterminal black band arising below costa, the 

 area beyond it irrorated with brown and with series of black points 

 before termen ; hind wing as above, but the medial band narrower, 

 tlie termen yellow irrorated with brown and with series of blackish 

 points just before it. 



Hab. U.S.A., Middle and Central States, 1 $ , Grote Coll., New 

 York {DouhJeday), 1 S . Exp. 92 millim. 



7154. Catabapta piatrix. (Plate CXCTV. fig. 3.) 



Catocala 'piairiw, Grote, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. iii. pp. 88, 632, pi. iii. 

 f. ,3 (18t)5); Street. Lep. Rhop. & Het. p. 74, pi. ix. f. 8; Smith, Cat. 

 Noct. N. Am. p. 350. 



Head and thorax grey mixed with red-brown ; frons with black 

 lateral bars ; tegulse with two black medial lines ; patagia with 

 diffused black lines near edges; pectus and legs whitish suffused 

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

 red-brown, the ventral surface white tinged Avith red-brown. Fore 

 wing grey, suffused with red-brown and irrorated with black, the 

 veins streaked with black ; subbasal line black, slightly angled out- 

 wards below costa and ending at submcdian fold ; some black 

 suffusion in and below the cell before the antemedial line, which is 

 double, the inner line indistinct on costnl half, slightly angled out- 

 wards below costa, then excurved to submedian fold and incurved at 

 vein 1, an oblique whitish shade beyond it from costa to below the 

 cell; reniform deiined by blackish and with its centre defined b)^ 

 blacldsh, some dark suffusion beyond it and an oblique dark bar 

 above it from costa ; an oblicjue w^edgc-shaped whitish spot defined 

 by black 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, waved, excurved at submedian fold and 

 strongly angled inwards at vein 1 ; subterminal line grey defined 

 . on each side by blackish, wayed, oblique from costa to below 



