US 



KOCTUlDiE. 



Ab. 4. anx/ustiita. Hind wing with the postmedial band much 

 narrower. 



/lab. Britain, Leech Coll. ; France ; Germany, Zeller, Frey and 

 Mutzell Colls., Bohemia, Leech Coll. ; Austria : Hungary, 

 D'Emmich Coll. ; Switzerland ; IS". Italy ; Greece, Merlin Coll. ; 

 Scandinavia ; IIussia ; IIumelia ; Armenia ; W. Turkestan, Tar- 

 bagatai Mts., Ala Tau ; W. Siberia, Altai ; E. Siberia. Amur, 

 Ussuri ; Japan. Emj). 90-106 millim. 



Larva, ftleyr. Brit. Lep. p. 162 ; Barrett, Lep. Brit. -pi. p. 249, pi. 252, 

 f. 3 ; Hffni. Ealip. p. 148, pi. 37. f. 4. 



Brownish grey irrorated with black, the 8th and 11th somites 

 with pointed prominences. Food-plants, Ash and Boplar. 6-7. 



7180. Catocala cara. (Plate CXCV. fig. 8.) 



Catocala cara, Griien. Noct. iii. p. 87 (1852) ; Street. Lep. Eliop. & Het. 



p. 98, pi. xi. f. 14 ; Smith, Oat. Noct. N. Am. p. 344. 

 Catocala canssima, Hiilst, Bull. Brooklyn Ent. Soc. ii. p 97 (1880). 

 Catocala sylvia, H. Edw. Bull. Brooklyn Ent. Soo. iii. p. 57 (1880). 



Head and thorax bright red-brown, with a deep red-brown band 

 on prothorax edged behind with ochreous ; palpi, pectus and legs 

 paler and mixed with grey, the tarsi brown ringed with whitish ; 

 abdomen red-brown, the anal tuft and ventral surface whitish 

 tinged with brown. Fore wing bright red-brown irrorated with a 

 few olive-grey scales ; subbasal line black, excurved below eosta 

 and ending at submedian fold ; antemedial line black, oblique and 

 sinuous to median nervure, incurved at vein 1 and excurved above 

 inner margin ; reniform very faintly defined by grey and with a 

 slight grey spot in centre, its outer edge somewhat dentate ; a rather 

 quadrate greyish spot defined by black below end of cell, connected 

 by a sinus with the postmedial line, which is black, slightly bent 

 outwards below costa, then oblique and slightly sinuous, acutely 

 angled outwards above and below vein 5, then incurved, waved, 

 defined on outer side by grey scales, at vein 2 forming the sinus 

 below end of cell, angled outwards and bidentate at submedian fold ; 

 traces of a waved greyish subterminal line defined on outer side by 

 brown, oblique from costa to below vein 7; the veins of terminal 

 area with slight blackish streaks ; a series of whitish points in the 

 interspaces just before termen. Hind wing bright crimson-pink ; 

 some brown on basal inner area and the hair on inner margin 

 brown ; an obliquely curved black medial band, narrowing to inn;r 

 margin, its outer edge slightly angled outwards at vein 5 ; the 

 terminal area black, very broad at costa and narrowing to tornus ; 

 the termen creamy white towards apex, then with a series of small 

 spots to vein 2, some pale red on the outer edge of the black area ; 

 cilia creamy white with a few brown scales especially towards 

 tornus. Underside of fore wing white, an oblique brown ante- 

 medial shade from below costa to inner margin, an oblique black- 

 brown medial band, the terminal area broadly fuscous brown, the 

 termen suifusod with grey : hind wing as above but the costal area 



