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chequered with brown at veins 6 to 2. Uuderside of fore wing 

 pale ochreous yellow, a slight brown antemedial shade on inner 

 area, an oblique black medial band slightly angled outwards at 

 submedian fold, its .inner edge incurved at the discocellulars, 

 terminal area blackish shading to grey-brown at termen, its inner 

 edge curved; hind wing as above but pale ochreous yellow except 

 the inner area, the outer band subterminal, the termen ochreous 

 yellow. 



Bah. N. China; Cente. China, Foo-chow {de la Touche), 1 d , 

 Kiukiang (Pri/er), 2 2 • Exp. 74-76 millim. 



7170. Mormonia delilah. (Plate CXCV. fig. 1.) 



Catocala delilah, Streek. Lep. Ehop. & Het. p. 96, pi. xi. f. 7 (1874) ; Smith, 



Cat. Noct. N. A.m. p. o37. 

 Catocala adoptiva, Grote, I'rans. Am. Ent. Soc. v. p. 96 (1874). 



Head and thorax red-brown mixed with some reddish ochreous ; 

 tegulas with black-brown lines at middle and tips, the prothorax 

 Avith blackish bar, the patagia with black-brown lines near edges ; 

 pectus grey-brown ; legs grey mixed with black, the tarsi black 

 ringed with white ; abdomen rufous, the ventral surface ochreous 

 white. Fore wing greenish ochreous irrorated and suffused with 

 red-brown ; subbasal line black, waved, from costa to vein 1 ; 

 antemedial line double, blackish, oblique, sinuous ; reniform delined 

 by blackish and with its centre defined by blackish, its outer edge 

 somewhat dentate, a blackish spot above it on costa ; an oblique 

 spot defined by black below end of cell, connected by a sinus on 

 vein 2 with the postmedial line, which is black, bent outwards 

 below costa, then oblique, sinuous and with some ochreous suffusion 

 before it, acutely angled outwards above and below vein 5, then 

 incurved, sinuous, and defined on outer side by ochreous, bidentate 

 at submedian fold, and strongly incurved at vein 1 ; subterminal line 

 ochreous defined on outer side by blackish, dentate, oblique from 

 costa to below vein 7, where it is met by a slight oblique dark shade 

 from termen below apex ; a series of black striee before termen 

 defined on outer side by ochreous. Hind wing orange, the inner 

 area suffused with brown ; a medial black band, oblique to 

 submedian fold, then narrower and bent inwards to vein 1, its 

 outer edge excuiwed at vein 5 ; a black subterminal band, its inner 

 edge slightly waved, angled inwards at vein 2 and outwards at 

 submedian fold, its outer edge crenulate to the termen and cilia at 

 veins 6 to 2. Underside of fore wing orange, an oblique black 

 shade from below costa before middle to the obliquely curved black 

 medial band narrowing to inner margin at vein 1, a curved black 

 subterminal band, the termen ochreous irrorated with brown, a 

 crenulate black terminal line, cilia chequered ochreous and fuscous ; 

 hind wing as above, but the costal area and termen ochreous, the 



