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vein n, a short blackisli streak beyond it below vein 7; a series of 

 minute black spots defiaed on outer side by whitish before termen. 

 Hind wing orange-yellow, the basal and inner areas suffused with 

 red-brown ; an obIi(]uely carved medial black band from costa to 

 above inner margin, its inner edge waved, its outer edge angled 

 outwards at vein 5 and excurved at submedian fold ; terminal area 

 black, its inner edge incurved at vein 2 ; the termen narrowly 

 yellow towards apex, then with series of slight spots in the inter- 

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

 veins 6 to 2. Underside of fore wing yellow, an oblique irregular 

 brown antemedial shade from below costa to vein 1 , an obliquely 

 curved medial black band narrowing to inner margin, a curved 

 fuscous subterminal shade with the area beyond it grey-brown ; 

 hind wing as above, but the costal area slightly irrorated with 

 brown, the medial band narrower and more iriegular, the terminal 

 area fuscous brown. 



Hah. U.S.A., East of Rocky Mts., 1 $ , Ohio, 1 c? , 1 $ , Kansas 

 {Snow), 1 c? , 1 $ , Texas, Dallas {Boll), 1 $ . Exp. 80-88 millim. 



Larva. Food-plants : Walnut, Hickory, and Persimmon. 



7155. Catal3apta dionyza. (Plate CXCIV. fig. 4.) 



Catocala dionyza, H. Edw. Papilio, iv. p. 124 (1884) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. 



N. Am. p. 350. 

 Catocala neogama, Dnice, Biol. Centr.-Am., Ilet. ii. p. 512 (nee Smith & 



Abbot). 



Head and thorax brown mixed with whitish ; frons with lateral 

 black bars; tegulse with some black; prothorax with blackish 

 band ; patagia with diffused black lines near edges; tarsi blackish 

 Avith pale rings ; abdomen yellowish rufous, the extremity with 

 some brown, the ventral surface brownish white. Fore wing grey - 

 white mixed with red-brown and black-brown, the veins streaked 

 with black ; an oblique subbasal black bar from costa ; the ante- 

 medial area suffused with black except towards costa; antemedial 

 line black defined on inner side slightly by whitish, forming a spot 

 at costa, then oblique to submedian fold and incurved at vein 1, 

 an oblique white shade beyond it from costa to below the cell ; 

 reniform large, obscurely defined by black and with some whitish 

 in centre, its outer edge dentate, placed on an oblique, diffused 

 blackish patch extending from costa to below angle of cell; a 

 triangular whitish spot defined by black below end of cell ; post- 

 medial line black, bent outwards below costa, then oblique, slightly 

 sinuous and with whitish suffusion before it, very acutely angled 

 outwards above and below vein 5, then oblique, dentate, strongly 

 excurved at submedian fold and angled inwards at vein 1 ; sub- 

 terminal line whitish, waved, oblique from costa to below vein 6 ; 

 an oblique dark shade from termen below apex ; a series of small 

 black spots defined on outer side by white before termen ; cilia 

 chequered brown and whitish at tips. Hind wing orange-yellow ; 

 an qbliquely curved medial black band from costa to inner margin 



