04 ?r0CTUID-E. 



7176. Catocala tristis. (Plate OXCV. fig. 7.) 



Catocala trisiis, W. H. Edsv. Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. ii. p. 511 (18fi4) ; 

 Streck. Lep. Rhop. & Het. p. 17, pi. iii. f. 1 ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. 

 p. 347. 



c5" . Head and thorax white mixed with dark brown ; palpi white 

 mixed with blackish; pectus white; tarsi brown ringed with 

 white ; abdomen grey suffused with fuscous brown, the ventral 

 surface white with slight brown segmental lines. Fore wing white 

 irrorated with dark brown, the inner area suffused with black- 

 brown, the terminal area with dark brown; subbasal line blackish, 

 angled outwards below eosta and ending at median nervure, a slight 

 blackish streak above base of vein 1 ; antemedial line black-brown, 

 oblique and sinuous to submedian fold, interrupted in lower part of 

 cell and with quadrate black-brown patch on its outer side below 

 the cell ; reniform with whitish centre defined by black-brown, 

 a patcli of dark brown suffusion above it on costal area ; postmedial 

 line slight, dark, defined on outer side by a broad patch of white 

 suffusion from vein 7 to submedian fold, oblique and sinuous to 

 below vein 7, then minutely waved and with slight dark points 

 at the veins, incurved at discal fold ; subterminal line white, 

 diffused, waved, obsolete on inner area ; a series of dark points 

 before termen. Hind wing black-brown, the cilia white towards 

 apex. Underside of fore wing black-brown, a white postmedial 

 band somewhat oblique to below vein 4 and obsolescent on inner 

 area, the apex white; hind wing black-brown, the costal edge and 

 apical part of termen narrowly white. 



Hah. Canada; U.S.A., Northern, Eastern, Middle, and Central 

 States, Massachusetts, Weston, 1 <S ■ Exp. 50 millim. 



7177. Catocala elda. (Plate CXCV. fig. 4.) 



Catocala elda, Behr, Can. Ent. xix. p. 199 (1887) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. 

 N. Am. p. 347. 



5 . Head and front of thorax fuscous black mixed with grey- 

 white ; the hinder part of thorax brown mixed with white ; palpi 

 at base and pectus white ; fore legs fuscous irrorated with white, 

 the mid and hind legs white slightly irrorated with fuscous ; 

 abdomen fuscous black with grej'-white segmental lines, the hair 

 at base brown, the extremity grey, the ventral surface white. 

 Fore wing grey-white thickly irrorated with fuscous black and 

 ochreous brown ; a slight waved, black, subbasal line from costa to 

 submedian fold; antemedial line indistinctly double, w^aved, ex- 

 curved above inner margin ; a dark medial shade with a lunulate 

 white spot on it below lower angle of cell ; postmedial line fuscous 

 black slightly defined on outer side by white, dentate, oblique to 

 beloAV vein 7, where it is acutely angled outwards, then incurved ; 

 subterminal line whitish, slightly defined on each side by fuscous, 

 dentate, incurved below vein 6 and ending at tornus ; a series of 

 black striae before termen. Hind wing fuscous black ; a rather 



