66 N0CTU1DJ5. 



curved medial band from just below costa to just above inner 

 margin, expanding at middle, a curved band on terminal area 

 leaving the termen to below vein 2 and the cilia white. 



Ab. 1. jplinjnia. Pore wing evenly irrorated with fuseous. 



Ab, 2. clara. Fore wing white with hardly any fuscous 

 irroration. 



Hab. Canada, Nova Scotia {Redman), 1 c? type, Toronto {Gibson), 

 1 S, Manitoba, Cartwright {Heath), 1 (5,1 $, Miniota {Dennis), 

 1 c?, 1 2; U.S.A., New York, 8 J, 4 $, Middle States, Oregon, 

 Colorado. Exp. 78-86 millim. 



Larva. Clark, Can. Ent. xx. p. 17. 



Bluish or greenish cream-colour thickly irrorated with pale 

 yellow-brown, the 9th, 10th, and 12th somites with black markings, 

 the rest of dorsum sometimes with slight black irroration ; head 

 white with black vertical and transverse marking above, forming a 

 gridiron pattern. Food-plants, White Birch and Silver Poplar. 



7179. Catocala fraxini. 



Noctua fraxini, Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. x. p. 512 (1758); Esp. Schinett. 

 iv.pl.'lOl ; Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 327 ; Goflt. Lep. Fr. t. p. 50, 

 pi. 45. f. 1 ; Frr. Neue Beitr. pi. 619; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 247. 



Catocala oncerens, Fucbs, Jhrb. Nass. xlii. p. 210 (1889). 



Catocala gaiidens, Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 247 (1901). 



Catocala maculata, ICusnezow, Eev. Eusse. Ent. i. p. 230 (11^01). 



Catocala contigua, Schultz, Ent. Zeit. Guben. xs. p. 86 (1906). 



Catocala angustata, Schultz, Ent. Zeit. Guben. xx. p. 86 (1906). 



Head and thorax grey-white mixed with fuscous brown, the 

 tegulae with slight dark medial line and black line at tips, the 

 patagia with slight dark streaks; pectus Avhite ; legs white iiro- 

 rated with brown, the fore tibiae at extremities and the tarsi banded 

 black and white : abdomen grej--white irrorated with black-brown, 

 the basal half of dorsum suifused with black-brown, the genital 

 tufts of male ochreous white, the ventral surface white. Fore wing 

 grey-white thickly irrorated with brown ; subbasal line rather dif- 

 fused, blackish, from costa to submedian fold where there is a slight 

 dark streak beyond it ; antemedial line double, fuseous brown filled 

 in with grey- white, oblique sinuous ; reniform fuscous brown with 

 slight white mark in centre, diffused on outer side and with oblique 

 dark bar above it from costa, an oblique, rather triangular white 

 spot defined by blackish below end of cell with slight waved line 

 from it to inner margin ; postmedial line black-brown, forming a 

 small spot at costa, strongly bent outwards below costa, then 

 double, filled in with whitish, oblique to above vein 5 where it is 

 angled outwards, then inwardly oblique, dentate and angled in- 

 wards at vein 1 ; subterminal line diffused, whitish defined on 

 outer side by fuscous, dentate, obliquely incurved from costa to 

 below vein 6 ; a series of blackish striae before termen faintly 

 defined on outer side by whitish ; cilia with a blackish line tlirough 

 them. Hind wing black-brown, the hair on inner margin pale 

 grey-blue; a pale grey-blue curved postmedial band, white at 



