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NOCTUID.l':. 



medial band ending at submedian fold, the subterminal band with its 

 outer edge not crenulate. 



Hah. U.S.A., Illinois, Nebraska, Kansas, Texas {MesTce), 1 d , 

 1 5 , Dallas (Boll), 3 5 type adoptiva, Arizona. Exp. 68-70 

 millim. 



Larva. Food-plant, Oak. 



7171. Mormonia chelidonia. (Plate CXCV. fig. 6.) 



Catocala chelidonia, Grote, Papilio, i. p. 159 (1881j ; id. 111. Essay, p. 67, 

 pi. iv. f. 41 ; Smith, Cat, Noct. N. Am. p. 353. 



Head and thorax purplish grey mixed with dark brown ; palpi 

 with some white at base and white ring at extremity of 2nd joint ; 

 frons with black lateral bars ; tegulae with black medial line, the 

 patagia with some black scales near edges ; pectus brownish white ; 

 legs dark brown and whitish, the tarsi black ringed with white ; 

 abdomen yellow tinged with rufous, the basal crests brown and grey, 

 the anal tuft white at tip, the ventral surface white tinged with 

 brown. Fore wing purplish grey almost uniformly suffused and 

 irrorated with fuscous brown ; subbasal line black, sinuous, from 

 costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line black, oblique, sinuous ; 

 reniform faintly defined by brown, its outer edge somewhat 

 dentate, an oblique black bar above it from costa ; a pale rounded 

 spot defined by black below end of cell ; postmedial line black, 

 bent outwards below costa, then obliquely downcurved, angled 

 outwards above vein 5 and slightly excurved below it, then 

 inwardly oblique, slightly excurved at submedian fold and angled 

 inwards at vein 1 ; a faint whitish subterminal line, obliquely 

 incurved from costa to below vein 6, then slightly waved ; a series 

 of black points before termen with whitish marks beyond them 

 a dark line at base of cilia. Hind wing orange-yellow, the inner 

 area with some red-brown suffusion ; a narrow black medial band, 

 oblique to submedian fold, then bent inwards and ending at vein 1, 

 its outer edge excurved at vein 5 and submedian fold ; a black 

 terminal band from costa to just below vein 2 and a patch at vein 

 1, the inner edge of the band oblique to vein 4 and angled inwards 

 at vein 2 ; the termen narrowly yellow towards apex, then with 

 slight yellow marks in the interspaces to vein 2 ; cilia white, 

 chequered with brown at veins 6 to 2, brown towards tornus. 

 Underside of fore wing yellow, the costa grey-brown, an oblique 

 brown antemedial shade from costa to vein 1, an oblique black 

 medial band narrowing to inner margin, its outer edge excurved at 

 vein 5, the terminal area fuscous brown, its inner edge curved ; 

 hind wing as above, the basal and postmedial costal areas whitish 

 irrorated with brown, the termen without yellow. 



Hah. U.S.A., Arizona, Prescott, 1 d" , 1 $ type (Kxmze), 2 J, 

 6 $ . Exp. 48-54 millim. 



Larva, Food-plant, Scrub-Oak. 



