70 NOCTUID^. 



wing black-brown, an oblique diffused white medial wedge-shaped 

 patch from costa to vein 2, a narrow white postmedial band, oblique 

 to vein 4 and obsolescent towards inner margin, some white at apex 

 and the cilia white at base ; hind wing with the basal costal area 

 brown, the medial band broader, its inner edge indented below vein 

 2, the postmedial area narrow, white to vein 5. 

 Ab. 1. digressa. Hind wing paler. 



Hah. S. France, Pyrenees, Leech Coll. ; Spain, Andalusia, 

 Mutzell Coll.; Italy, Tuscany (Passerinl); Algeria; Dalmatia, 

 Leech Coll. ; Greeck, Olympus, Merlin Coll. ; Balkan States ; Asia 

 Minor, Lydia, Taurus ; Stria, Exj?. 60-64 millira. 



Larva. Kii-by, Butt. & Moths Eur. p. 276 ; Hffm. Eaiip. p. 149. 

 Grey variegated with greenish ; dorsal line double, dark ; 8th 

 somite with a yellowish prominence tinged with fuscous at sides. 

 Food-plant, Oak. 



7182. Catocala concumbens. (Plate CXOV. fig. 9.) 



Catocala concumbens, Wlk. xiii. 1198 fl857) ; Streck. Lep. Rbop. k Het. 



p. 39, pi. V. f. 12: Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 344. 

 Catocala diana, H. Edw. Bull. Brooklyn, Ent. Soc. iii. p. 57 (1880). 

 Catocala hillii, Grrote, Papilio, iii. p. 43 (1883). 



Head and thorax grey mixed with some red-brown and blackish, 

 the tegulae rufous with some brown at base ; frons with black 

 lateral bars ; fore tibiae with black spots at base and extremity, the 

 tarsi with blackish bands ; abdomen grey tinged with reddish 

 ochreous, the anal tuft and ventral surface whitish. Fore wing- 

 grey suffused with olive-brown and irrorated with blackish, the 

 costal area whitish to postmedial line ; subbasalline black, e.x curved 

 below costa and ending at submedian fold ; antemedial line black, 

 bent outwards below costa, indistinct below submedian fold and 

 incurved at vein 1 ; an indistinct minutely wa'f^ed medial line ; 

 reniform very indistinctly defined by brown, its outer edge some- 

 what dentate ; an obliquely curved spot slightly defined by black 

 below end of cell, connected with the postmedial line, which is fine, 

 black slightly defined on outer side by white, somewhat angled 

 inwards below costa, then oblique and slightly sinuous, acutely 

 angled outwards above and below vein 5, then oblique, dentate, at 

 vein 2 forming tlie sinus below end of cell and incurved at vein 1 ; 

 a double waved brownish subterminal line filled in with grey, some- 

 what oblique from costa to below vein 7 ; a series of black points 

 before termen with slight whitish points beyond them. Hind wing 

 bright crimson-pink ; an obliquely curved medial black band from 

 costa to vein 1, its outer edge slightly angled outwards at vein 5; 

 the terminal area black, narrowing to tornus ; the termen and cilia 

 white, the latter slightl}' intersected with brown between veins 6 

 and 2. Underside of fore wing white, a broad oblique black-brown 

 shade from costa before middle to the obliquely curved black medial 

 band on inner area, a curved blackish subterminal band from just 



