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*7167. Mormonia ? calphurnia. 



Caiocala calphurnia, H. Edw. Bull. Brooklyn Bnt. Soc. iii. p. 59 (1880) ; 

 Smith, Oat. Noct. N. Ain. p. 337. 



Head and thorax brown with a greenish tinge ; teguloe with 

 dark lines at middle and tips ; patagia with a dark line near upper 

 edge; abdomen red-brown. Fore wing brown tinged with 

 greenish ; subbasal line slight, sinuous, from costa to submedian 

 fold ; antemedial line almost obsolete, oblique, sinuous ; reniform 

 and the spot below end of cell very indistinctl)' defined ; postmedial 

 line slight, bent outwards below costa, then oblique, strongly 

 angled outwards above vein 5 and slightly below it, then incurved 

 and slightly waved, strongly angled inwards above vein 1 ; subter- 

 rainal line indistinctly defined, dentate ; a slight crenulate terminal 

 line. Hind wing black ; a small discoidal cloud, narrow medial 

 band and broad terminal band orange ; cilia orange intersected 

 with black on tornal half. Underside of fore wing blackish, some 

 orange tinged with fuscous at base and an oblique medial band. 



Hab. U.S.A., Kansas. Evp. 50 millim. This species is un- 

 known to me ; Mr. Beatenmuller suggests that it may be an exotic 

 species. 



7168. Mormonia scortorum. (Plate CXCIV. fig. 10.) 



Catocala scortorum. Leech, Trans. Bnt. Soc. 1900, p. 530. 



5 . Head and tegulse grey mixed with brown; palpi dark brown, 

 ochreous white towards base ; frons with lateral black bars ; tegulfe 

 dark at tips, the prothorax with narrow dark band ; thorax 

 brownish grey, the patagia with blackish lines near edges ; pectus 

 brownish white ; legs grey and dark brown, the tibiae and tarsi 

 banded with black ; abdomen ochreous brown, the ventral surface 

 whitish. Fore wing grey suff'used and irrorated with reddish 

 brown, the veins with dark streaks; abroad oblique dark brown 

 fascia from base of costa to the spot below end of cell ; antemedial 

 line obsolete on costal area, dark brown, oblique and sinuous from 

 the fascia to inner margin ; reniform slightly defined by brown and 

 with its centre defined by brown, an oblique dark bar above it 

 from costa ; a whitish spot defined by dark brown below end of 

 cell, connected by a sinus with the postmedial line at vein 2 ; 

 postmedial line black-brown, oblique and sinuous from costa to 

 vein 6, very acutely angled outwards and produced to streaks above 

 and below vein 5, then inwardly oblique, dentate, very strongly 

 angled outwards in submedian fold below which there is a black 

 streak on it, at vein 1 angled inwards to near the antemedial line ; 

 an oblique dark shade from termen below apex to the angle of 

 postmedial line and an oblique shade from termen at vein 2. 

 Hind wing yellow, the basal half of inner area suffused with 

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



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