MORMONIA, 57 



white tiugecl with rufous aud slightly irrorated with blackish 

 especially on the veins ; subbasal line black, angled outwards below 

 costa and ending at submedian fold ; antemedial line black slightly 

 defined on inner side by white, obliquely curved and sinuous, 

 incurved at vein 1 ; reniform rather small, defined by blackish and 

 with white centre defined by blackish, a slight brown mark above 

 it on costa; a spot defined by blackish below end of cell, connected 

 by a sinus on vein 2 with the postmedial line, which is fine, black, 

 slightly bent outwards below costa, then oblique and sinuous, 

 acutely angled outwards above and below vein 5, then iuwardly 

 oblique, dentate, angled outwards at submedian fold and incurved 

 at vein 1 ; subterminal line whitish, minutely waved, oblique 

 from costa to below vein 6 ; a series of blackish points slightly 

 defined on outer side by white just before termen. Hind wing 

 golden yellow ; an obliquely waved medial black band from costa 

 to vein 1, its outer edge slightly excurved at vein 5 ; a black 

 terminal band ; the termen with narrow yellow patch towards apex, 

 then with slight yellow marks in the interpaces ; cilia white, 

 chequered with brown to vein 2. Underside of fore wing yellow 

 with the costa grey- white, a slight rufous antemedial mark below 

 the cell, an oblique black medial band from costa to which it 

 narrows to vein 1, its inner edge angled inwards below costa, a 

 curved fuscous brown subterminal band from below costa to vein 1, 

 the area beyond it grey-white ; hind wing as above but the costal 

 half whitish irrorated with red-brown, the medial band narrow, 

 obsolete towards costa and incurved at discal fold, the subterminal 

 band obsolescent towards costa, the termen white irrorated with 

 red-brown. 



Hah. U.S.A., ?New York (Doubleday), 1 $ type, Illinois, 

 Nebraska, Texas, Dallas (Boll), 1 $ . Exjo. 76 millim. 



Larva. French, Can. Eut. jsxiv. p. ;^07. 



Dirty white with blackish dorsal and lateral bands and a clear 

 white sublateral stripe ; subdorsal and substigmatal series of orange 

 patches, two on each somite ; somite 1 with the anterior half 

 orange with a series of black spots ; somites 2 and 3 with irregular 

 orange transverse bands ; the fold above the legs black with an 

 orange spot on each somite ; no fringes ; head olive with a dorsal 

 and four black lateral stripes. Eood-plant, Honey-Locust. 



7175. Mormonia hella. 



Catocala Mia, Butl. Cist. Ent. ii. p. 242 (1877) ; id. 111. Het. B.M. iii. 



p. 25, pi. 46. f. 10; Stand. Cat. Lepi pal. p. 249. 

 Catocala serenides, Staud. Stett. Ent. Zeit. 1888, p. 268 ; id. Rom. Mem. vi. 



p. 589, pi. 11. f. 6. 



Head and thorax grey-white mixed with brown ; palpi white 

 towards base ; head white at sides, the frons with black lateral 

 bars ; prothorax with reddish brown band, the metathorax with 

 some red-brown ; pectus and legs grey mixed with fuscous, the 



