14 XOCTUIDiE. 



briglifc recl-l)rowii defined by dark brown and with dark brown 

 patch above it on costa ; a faint oblique sinuous white line from 

 lower angle of cell to inner margin ; postmedial line indistinct, 

 double, with dark spots at costa, bent outwards below costa, 

 oblique and sinuous to just above vein 5 where it is acutely angled 

 outwards, then minutely waved and angled outwards above vein 1 ; 

 a faint dentate brown subterminal line, oblique from costa to 

 vein 6 : a slight wedge-shaped patch of red-brown suffusion from 

 terraen below apex ; a series of dark points with white points 

 beyond them connected with a crenulate terminal line ; cilia red- 

 brown, whitish at tips. Hind wing black-brown with some 

 whitish hair at base ; cilia white except at base towards tornus. 

 Underside of fore wing black-browu, some whitish at base, an 

 oblique whitish medial ])atch from subcostal nervure to vein 2, 

 a narrow curved postmedial band suffused with brown on inner 

 half, cilia white intersected with brown; hind wing black-brown, 

 the basal and inner areas Avhitish, a narrow white postmedial band, 

 oblique from costa to vein 4 and ending at vein 1. 



Hah. U.S.A., Central and Southern States, Illinois, Texas, 2 c5' . 

 E.vp. 76 millim. 



7130. Catabapta Judith. (Plate CXCII. fig. 2.) 



Catocala Judith, ^treck. Lep. Eliop. & Ilet. p. 95, pi. xi, f. 5 (1874-); 



KnsnezoT, Eev. Rasa. Ent. iii. p. 160, figs. 2 «, 6 ; Smith, Cat. Noet. 



N.Am. p.S.W. 

 Catocala levettei, Grote, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. v. p. 95 (1874). 



Head and thorax grey tinged wath brown, the tegular with black 

 lines at middle and near tips, the patagia with some black scales 

 near upper edge ; palpi black, white at base, tlie 3rd joint irrorated 

 with white ; frons black at sides ; antennte blackish ; pectus white ; 

 legs white irrorated with brown, the tarsi black ringed with white ; 

 abdomen grey, suffused with fuscous except at base, the anal tuft 

 and ventral surface white. Fore wing grey tinged with brown 

 and slightly irrorated with dark brown ; subbasal line blackish, 

 angled outwards below costa and ending at submedian fold; ante- 

 medial line brownish, oblique, waved, expanding into a spot at 

 costa ; reniform with brownish centre and whitish annulus defined 

 by some black scales, an oblique brown bar above it from costa ; 

 postmedial line black, expanding into a slight spot at costa, bent 

 outwards below costa then dentate, oblique to below vein 6 where 

 it is produced to an acute tooth, then inwardly oblique, at vein 2 

 running inwards and enclosing a spot below end of cell and strongly 

 angled inwards above vein 1 ; subterminal line indistinct, whitish, 

 dentate, oblique to below vein 6 ; the veins of terminal area v^ith 

 slight dark streaks ; a series of dark points before termen slightly 

 defined on outer side by whitish. Hind wing black-brown, the 

 inner margin with some white hair ; cilia brown mixed with 



