72' NOCIUID.E. 



white towards apex and with small white spots between veins 6 and 

 2, with a slight pink tinge between it and the black area ; cilia white 

 slightly chequered with brown between veins 6 and 2. Underside 

 of fore wing white, an obli(]ue brown antemedial shade from below 

 costa to vein 1, an obliquely curved medial black band, a curved 

 blackish subterminal band, the area beyond it grey-white, hind wing 

 white, the inner half suffused with pink, the medial band with 

 sinuous edges, the termen with a waved dark line. 



Ab. 1. intermedia, Bang-Haas ined. Fore wing with the post- 

 medial line obsolescent below vein 4. — Algeria. 



Ab. 2. amanda. Darker. 



Ab. 3. selecta. Abdomen crimson. 



Hah. S. Frakce, Zeller, Frey, and Leech Colls., Pyrenees, Leech 

 Coll. ; Spain, Bilboa, Andalusia, Mutzell Coll. ; Algep.ia, Batna, 

 1 S • Exp. 60-64 millim. 



Larva. Kirby, Butt. & Moths Eur. p. 276 ; Hffm. Eaup. p. 149. 



Ochreous grey or brownish, the 8th somite dorsally bright 

 yellow edged with reddish, the prominence white ; the 11th somite 

 with an oblique horseshoc^shaped prominence extending to the 

 subdorsal lines ; warts distinct, yellowish ; Hues slight, the dorsal 

 line double, the subdorsal grey, waved, the lateral line grey finely 

 edged with brown ; stigmata white edged with black ; ventral 

 surface white, pinkish at middle with black patches between the 

 prolegs ; head bluish with a yellow patch streaked with black. 

 Food-plants : Salicc cajprea and viminalis. 7, 



7184. Catocala sultana. (Plate CXCV. fig. 10.) 



Catocala sultana, Eang^Haas, Iris, xxiv. p. 42, pi. iv. f, 2 (1910). 



Head and thorax grey suflPused with brown and irrorated with 

 blackish ; tegulse with pale line defined on each side by blackish 

 near base; antennae black with a slight angled black line between 

 their bases ; palpi with blackish band near extremity of 2nd joint ; 

 frons black at sides ; abdomen grey-brown dorsally tinged with 

 reddish. Fore wing grey-brown slightly tinged with rufous and in 

 parts with fuscous and irrorated with black ; a diffused black streak 

 below the cell to the antemedial line ; subbasal line slight, black, 

 waved, from costa to vein 1 ; antemedial line black, indistinctly 

 double except towards costa, oblique, sinuous ; reniform with pale 

 annulus slightly defined by blackish, its centre defined by blackish, 

 an oblique black striga above it from costa ; an oblique spot defined 

 by black below end of cell connected by a sinus on vein 2 with the 

 postmedial line, which is black, bent outAvards below costa, very 

 acutely angled outwards above and below vein 5, dentate below 

 veins 4 and 3, angled outwards at submedian fold and inwards on 

 vein 1 ; subterminal line faint, pale, strongly dentate, oblique from 

 costa to below vein 7 ; the veins of terminal area streaked with 

 blackish. Hind wing bright crimson ; an obliquely curved black 

 medial band from costa to vein 1 ; the terminal area black, broad 



