€ATOCALA. 65 



narrow curved -white postmedial band very faintly tinged with 

 purplish ; some white on termen from apex to submedian fold with 

 blackish points on it before termen ; cilia white. Underside of 

 fore wing black, some white at base, the basal half of costa white 

 with au oblique white medial band from it to submedian fold, an 

 oblique white postmedial band, slightly incurved below costa, 

 narrowing below vein 2, angled outwards in submedian fold and 

 ending close to tornus, the termen suffused with grey from apex 

 to vein 2 with some small black spots on termen. Hind wing with 

 the basal lialf white with black discoidal lunule, the terminal half 

 black with curved white postmedial band and some grey on termen 

 from apex to vein 2. 



II(Lh. Er. Columbia, New Westminster [Poling), 1 $ ; U.S.A.., 

 Oregon. Eay. 84 niillim. 



7178. Catocala relicta. (Plate CXCV. fig. 5.) 



Cafoeala relicta, Wlk. xiii. 1192 (1857) ; Streck. Lep. Ehop. & llet. p. 19, 



pi. iii. ff. 5, 6 ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. ,316. 

 Catocala phnjnia, H. Edw. Bull. Brooklyn Ent. Soc. iii. p. 54 (1880). 

 Catocala bianca, H. Edw. Bull. Brooklyn Ent. Soc. iii. p. 54 (1880). 

 Catocala clara, Beutenm. Bull. Am. Mus. xix. p. 506 (1903). 



Head and thorax dark reddish brown mixed with white, the 

 basal half of tegulte whiter ; palpi white at base : pectus and legs 

 white, the tibiae irrorated with brown, the tarsi banded black and 

 white ; abdomen fuscous brown, grey towards extremitjr, the 

 ventral surface white. Eore wing white, the basal area to beyond 

 the anteraedial line and the postmedial area irrorated and suffused 

 with fuscous brown ; subbasal line slight, dark, excurved below 

 costa and ending at submedian fold ; antemedial line double, 

 fuscous brown filled in with white, oblique, sinuous ; reniform 

 elliptical, fuscous brown with slight white lunule in centre, a 

 blackish bar above it from costa; a rather triangular white spot 

 defined by fuscous brown below end of cell ; a sinuous fuscous- 

 brown shade just beyond the cell from vein 7 to inner margin ; 

 postmedial line fuscous brown, bent outwards below costa, then 

 minutely waved and somewnat oblique below vein 6, defined by 

 white on outer side before the brown suffusion on postmedial area ; 

 subterminal line difi'used, white defined on outer side by fuscous 

 brown, dentate, the fuscous brown extending to termen at sub- 

 median fold ; a series of small blackish spots before termen. Hind 

 wing black-brown, the hair on inner margin white; a curved white 

 postmedial band with a faint bluish tinge ; the termen white from 

 apex to vein 2, with dark striae in the interspaces ; cilia pure white. 

 Underside of fore wing black-brown, the base and costal area to 

 middle whitish, an oblique white medial patch from below costa 

 to submedian fold, a white postmedial band, oblique to vein 4 and 

 narrowing towards inner margin, the termen whitish with a fine 

 waved dark terminal line and series of points in the interspaces ; 

 hind wing white with a faint bluish tinge, a black discoidal lunule, 



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