52 NOCTUID.E. 



inwards to inner margin, its outer edge excurved bej-ond lower 

 angle of cell ; terminal area black to below vein 2, tben connected 

 by a bar with a patch at vein 1, its inner edge angled inwards at 

 vein 2, a yellow patch at apex, then a series of slight yellow spots 

 in the interspaces to vein 2 ; cilia yellow chequered with brown 

 except towards apex and tornus. Underside of fore wing pale 

 ochreous j'ellow, a slight oblique brown shade from median 

 iiervuro before mirldle to vein 1, an oblique blackish medial band 

 expanding towards costa and angled outwards in submedian fold, 

 terminal area black-brown shading to grey-brown at termen ; hind 

 wing pale ochreous yellow, the inner area deeper yellow, the bands 

 as above. 



Hah. W. China, Ta-chien-lu {Pratt), 1 $ type. Exp. 80 

 millim. 



7169. Mormonia ahamita. 



Catocala abamita, Brera. & Grey, Scbmett. Nord. Chin. p. 19 (1853). 

 Catocala scortum, Christ. Iris, ri. p. 94 (1893); Alph. Rom. Mem. ix. 

 p. 162, pi. 11. f. 4 ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 249. 



Head and thorax grey suffused with reddish brown ; palpi 

 W'hitish at base ; pectus whitish ; legs whitish tinged with brown, 

 the tarsi blackish ringed with white ; abdomen grey-brown, the 

 hair at base and segmental lines yellow-brown, the ventral surface 

 whitish. Pore wing grey slightly suffused with reddish brown and 

 irrorated with dark brown, the veins with slight dark streaks; an 

 oblique black-brown fascia from base of costa to below end of cell ; 

 antemedia] line obsolete on costal area, blackish detined on inner 

 side by whitish, oblique and sinuous from the fascia to inner 

 margin ; reniform slightly detined by blackish and its centre b^' 

 red-brown, an oblique blackish striga above it from costa; a 

 whitish spot defined by blackish below end of cell, connected by 

 a sinus on vein 2 with the postmedial line, which is blackish, 

 slightly bent outwards below costa, then oblique, very acutely 

 angled outwards and produced to streaks above and below vein 5, 

 then slighter, inwardly oblique and dentate, angled outwards in 

 submedian fold to near termen with which it is connected by a 

 black streak, Math a strong black streak on it below submedian 

 fold, and angled inwards on vein 1 nearly to the medial line ; sub- 

 terminal line indistinct, whitish, waved, oblique from costa to 

 below vein 6 ; a slight oblique dark shade from termen below apex. 

 Hind wing orange-yellow ; the base of submedian interspace 

 slightly tinged with brown ; a rather narrow black medial band, 

 oblique to submedian fold, then bent inwards to above inner margin, 

 its outer edge slightlj^ excurved at vein 5 ; a black terminal band 

 almost or quite interrupted at submedian fold, its inner edge 

 slightly angled inwards at vein 2 ; the termen with apical yellow 

 patch, then slight marks in the- interspaces'; cilia yellowish, white 



