48 NocTUin^ii:. 



*7164. Mormonia mesopotamica. (Plate CXCIV. fig. 8.) 



Catocala heteera, Staud. Iris, vii. p. 285 (1894) ; nee Stand. 1892. 

 Catocala aspasia, Staud. Iris, ix. p. 400 (189(3); id. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 248 ; 



(nee Streck. 1874). 

 Catocala mesojMtamica, Kusuezov, Eev. Russ. Ent. iii. p. 74 (1903). 

 Catocala stauclingeri, Beulenm. Bull. Am. Mus. xxiii. p. 151 (1907). 



$ . Head and thorax olive-brown mixed with grey ; tegulae with 

 black bands near base and at tips ; tibiae and tarsi banded with 

 black ; abdomen olive-brown tinged with grey and with grey 

 segmental bands. Fore wing olive-brown mixed with grey; 

 subbasal line black, waved, from costa to submedian fold ; ante- 

 medial line double, black, oblique, waved ; reniform brown with 

 grey annulus on outer side, connected with a brown bar from 

 costa, and with slight whitish spots before it on and below median 

 nervure ; a small whitish spot defined by blackish below end of 

 cell ; a brown bar from costa just beyond the cell with the slight 

 medial line arising from it, oblique to vein 5 where it is angled 

 outwards, then inwardly oblique, and slightly waved to vein 1, 

 then excurved ; postmedial line black, bent outwards below cost?., 

 then obliquely downcurved and angled outwards above aud below 

 vein 6, then inwardly oblique, and excurved below vein 2, two 

 indistinct waved lines beyond it ; subterminal line rather diffused, 

 blackish, dentate; a series of black strife just before termen 

 defined on outer side by whitish, Hind wing crimson, the veins 

 streaked with whitish; the base and inner margin tinged with 

 brown ; a black medial band oblique to submedian fold then bent 

 inwards to inner margin, somewhat dilated below costa and at 

 middle ; the terminal area black, broad at costa and narrowing to 

 tornus, its inner edge evenly curved and waved ; cilia white, 

 chequered with brown at base. Underside of fore wing blackish, 

 the costa and apical area tinged with grey, an oblique white medial 

 bar from below costa to vein 2, and postmedial band excurved 

 below vein 6 ; hind wing as above but the costal area white 

 irrorated with brown to beyond middle, a black discoidal lunula 

 jGonfluent above with the medial band. 



Hah. Syria, Mardin. ^.it^j. 88 millim. This species is unknown 

 io me ; figured from a drawing from type. 



7165. Mormonia aholibah, (Plate CXCIV. fig. 9.) 



Catocala aholibah, Streek. Lep. Rhop. & Het. p. 72, pi. ix. f. 5 (!874); 



Smith, Cat Noct. N. Am. p. 339. 

 Catocala coloradensis, Beutenin. Bull. Am. Mus. xix. p. 507 (1903). 



Head and thorax brown mixed with grey and blackish ; 

 teo-ul^e with brown medial line and band near tips ; pectus 

 brown and white ; legs irrorated Avith blackish ; abdomen 

 grey-brown, the ventral surface whitish tinged with brown. Fore 

 wino- red-brown mixed with some white and blackish ; subbasal 



