CATABAPTA. 39 



Underside of fore wing yellow, an oblique black-brown shade from 

 below costa before middle to vein 1, an irregular obliquely curved 

 medial black band, its inner edge incurved below costa and its outer 

 edge excurved at vein 5, a curved black sub terminal banrl, the 

 tor.uinal area brownish grey ; hind wing yellow, the terminal area 

 brownish grey, the black bands narrower and more irregular. 

 Ab. 1. Fore wing without the black streaks below the cell. 

 Hah. U.S.A.., Eastern and Central States, New York, Evans 

 Center (Grote), 2 c? , Kansas, 1 J, 3 $ type. E.iy. 82-100 

 millim^ 



Larva. Eood-plant, Walnut. 



7157. Catabapta habilis. (Plate CXCIY. fig. 6.) 



Catocala hahilis, Grote, Trans. Am. Ent. S'oc. ir. p. 11 (1872) ; Siuilb, 



Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 348. 

 Catocala basalts, Grote, Can, Ent. viii. p. 280 C1876). 



Head and thorax white mixed with some red-brown and dark 

 brown ; 2nd joint of palpi with black patch at side and white ring 

 at extremity ; frons black at sides ; teguhe with black medial line ; 

 shoulders with black streaks ; pectus ochreous white ; legs irrorated ' 

 with fuscous, the tarsi blackish ringed with white ; abdomen 

 fulvous brown, the ventral surface white tinged with ochreous. 

 Foie wing grey-white tinged with pale rufous and irrorated with 

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

 ending at submedian fold ; antemedial line black slightly defined 

 on inner side by white, slightly angled outwards below costa, then 

 oblique, sinuous ; reni"orm with its centre defined by brown and 

 whitish annuliis slightl}' defined by blackish, an oblique blackish 

 bar above it from costa ; an oblique rather triangular whitish spot 

 defined by blackish below end of cell ; postmedialline black slightly 

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

 oblique and slightly sinuous, acutely angled outwards above vein 6, 

 then inwardly oblique, waved, and angled inwards at veins 2 and ] ; 

 a diffused dentate white sub terminal line slightly defined on outer 

 side by brown, oblique from costa to below vein 6; a series of 

 black points before termen defined on outer side by white. Hind 

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

 brown ; an obliquely curved black medial band, narrowing to above 

 inner margin, its outer edge angled outwards at vein 5 ; a black 

 terminal band, its inner edge incurved at veins 2 and 1 ; the termen 

 with a yellow i)atch at apex, then with slight yellow marks in the 

 interspaces ; cilia yellowish. Underside of fore wing yellow, an 

 oblique black-brown shade from costa before middle to the obliquely 

 curved black medial band with its outer edge excurved at vein 5, at 

 inner area, a black subterminal band, its inner edge oblique to 

 vein 4, the apical area and termen grey-brown : hind wing as 

 above, but the medial band incurved at discal fold and ending at 

 submedian fold, the apex and termen irrorated with browo. 



