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at vein 1 ; subtermiual line whitish defined on outer side by black, 

 dentate, somewhat oblique from costa to below vein 6 ; a series of 

 black striae before termen defined on outer side by whitish ; cilia 

 chequered brown and whitish. Hind wing crimson, the hair on 

 inner margin brown, the base and inner area with some brownish 

 hair ; a narrow black medial band, oblique to discal fold where it 

 is angled outwards, incurved at middle and excurved at submedian 

 fold ; terminal area black, narrowing to tornus, its inner edge 

 excurved at discal and submedian folds ; the termen with slight 

 reddish spots between veins 6 and 2 ; cilia chequered brown and 

 white to vein 2, then brown with whitish tips. Underside of fore 

 wing black-brown, greyish at base, an oblique white medial bar 

 from below costa to vein 2, a narrow white postmedial band, 

 obliquely curved to vein 6 and suffused with brown in submedian 

 interspace, the apex grey, cilia chequered brown and white; hind 

 wing with the basal costal area pale brown, a black discoidal bar 

 with some whitish beyond its upper part, the narrow postmedial 

 area with some white to vein 5. 



Ab. 1. rejecta. Hind wing with the basal and inner areas 

 suffused with blackish. 



Ab. 2. desponsa. Hind wing yellowish. 



Ab. 3. Iceia. Larger; fore wing more variegated with grey-white 

 and fulvous. — Algeria. 



Hah. BuiTAiisr, Leech Coll. ; France ; Germans', Zeller, Frey, 

 and Muti^ell Colls.; Austria; HuNGARr, D'Emmieh Coll. ; Italy; 

 Sardinia ; Sicily ; Algeria ; Dalmatia ; Scandinavia ; Russia, 

 Livonia, Zeller Coll., Sarepta, Mutzell Coll. ; Asia Minor, Pontus ; 

 ? N. Persia. E^vp. 58-78 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Erit Lep. p. 162; Earretfc, Lep. Brit. vi. p. 261, pi. 254, 

 f. 1 ; Kirby, Butt & Moths Eur. p. 276, pi. 43. ff. 5a-c; Hffin. Eaup. p. 148, 

 pi. 37. f. 8. 



Pale ochreous with darker freckles ; 4th somite with a pale 

 ochreous dorsal blotch, the 9th with a dorsal mark ; darker brownish 

 dorsal blotches between somites 8 and 9 and on 11 ; warts with 

 spines; the 8th somite with a dorsal prominence, the 11th with 

 pair of pointed prominences ; head reddish brown with black dorsal 

 band behind. Food-plant, Oak. 5-6. 



7162. Mormonia dilecta, 



Noctm dilecta, Hijbn. Eur. Schraett., Noct. f. 3SS (1808; ; Staud. Cat. Lep. 



pal. p. 248. 

 IS'octua sponsa, Godt. Lep. Er. v. p. 68, pi. 48. i'. 3 (nee Linn.). 

 Catocala dayremi, Oberth. Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1907, p. 345, 

 Catocala powell'i , Oberth. Bull. Soc. Eut. Fr. 1907, p. 345, 



Head and thorax brown mixed with grey and black ; palpi 

 whitish towards base ; frons with lateral black bars ; tegulte black 

 at tips ; patagia with black scales near edges ; pectus and legs 

 white and brown, the tarsi fuscous ringed with whitish ; abdomen 

 grey-brown, the ventral surface w^hitish tinged with grey. Fore 



