56 koctuid.t;. 



7173. ? Mormonia frederici. (Plate CXCV, fig, 2.) 



Catocala frederici, Grote, Trans. Am. Ent. Sue. iv. p. 14 (1872); id. lil. 

 ■ Essay, p. 70, pi. iv. f. 44 ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 336. 



5 . Head and thorax white mixed with brownish grey, the 

 prothorax with an ochreous shade ; palpi fuscous irrorated with 

 white; frons with lateral black bars; antennse blackish; legs 

 fuscous and white, the tarsi black riuged with white, (hind legs 

 wanting); abdomen yellow, the ventral surface white tinged with 

 yellow. Pore wing creamy white mostly suffused with pale blue- 

 grey and slightly irrorated with fuscous brown ; a slight curved 

 subbasal dark striga from costa ; antcmedial line indistinct, double, 

 oblique, waved ; a slight dark discoidal lunule, a dark striga above 

 it from costa ; an irregular creamy white spot below end of cell 

 faintly defined by dark scales ; postmedial line slight, dark defined 

 on outer side by creamy white and with a small blackish spot at 

 costa, bent outwards below costa, then oblique and dentate, angled 

 outwards above and below vein 5, then inwardly oblique and 

 dentate, a faint rufous shade beyond it at middle ; subterminal line 

 slight, dark, waved, defined on inner side by whitish towards inner 

 margin, oblique from costa to below vein 6 ; a series of blackish 

 points with white points beyond then before termen. Hind wing 

 clear yellow ; a narrow obliqxie black band from middle of costa to 

 submedian fold, then bent inwards and ending at vein 1, its outer 

 edge slightly angled outwards at vein 5; a terminal black band 

 from costa to vein 2 and a small spot above tornus, the inner edge 

 of the band obliquely curved, the outer crenulate to termen between 

 veins 6 and 2 ; cilia with the tips white and a brown line through 

 them between veins 6 and 2. Underside of fore wing yelloAV, an 

 oblique fuscous antcmedial shade from below costa to vein 1, an 

 obliquely curved medial band narrowing to a point at vein 1 and a 

 curved subterminal band ; hind wing as above but the subterminal 

 band not erenulate to termen at middle. 



Hob. U.S.A., Texas, 1 $ , Colorado, New Mexico. Exp. 02 

 millim. 



7174. Mormonia illecta. (^Plate CXCV. fig. 3.) ' 



Catocala illecta, Wlk. xiii. 1205 (1857) ; Smitb, Cat. Noct. N. Am. 



p. 336. 

 Catocala magdalena, Streck. Lep. Risop. & Ilet. pp. 93, 97, pl.xi. f. 9 (1874). 



5 . Head and thorax grey-white tinged with rufous, the head, 

 tcgulse and prochorax Avith bright rufous mixed ; palpi with the 

 1st joint and the 2nd joint in front white; teguloe with blackish 

 medial line, the patagia with some black scales near upper edge ; 

 pectus and legs white mixed with some red-brown ; abdomen orange- 

 yellow, the crests at base rufous tipped with white, the extremity 

 with some white, the ventral surface white. Fore wing grey- 



