CAXOCALA. 73 



at costa aiad iiarro-\ving to iornus, its inner edge evenly curved ; 

 cilia white. Underside of fore wing white, an ohlique ditFused 

 antemedial blackish band from below costa to the obliquely curved 

 medial black band at subraedian fold, a curved blackish subterminal 

 band, the termen grey ; hind wing with the costal area whitish to 

 beyond middle, the termen with some whitish irroration except 

 towards tornus, 



Uab. Tunis, Ain Draham, 1 c? , 1 $ . Exi:). 72 millim. 



7185. Catocala leechi, n. sp. (Plate CXCV. fig. 11.) 



$ . Head and thorax grey-white mixed with some black-brown 

 especially on the tegulae ; palpi with the 1st joint rufous, the 2nd 

 joint towards extremity and theSrd joint irrorated with black ; frons 

 black below ; antennae blackish except at base ; vertex of head 

 rufous ; tegul^ with two slight blackish medial lines, the prothorax 

 with narrow blackish band, thepatagia with black lines near edges ; 

 fore and mid tibiae near extremities and the tarsi banded with 

 blackish ; abdomen ochreous white, brownish towards extremity, 

 the ventral surface white. Fore wing pale grey slightly tinged 

 with brown and irrorated with blackish, the inner and terminal 

 areas suffused with fuscous brown ; subbasal line black, angled out- 

 wards below costa and ending at submedian fold ; a diffused black 

 fascia below the cell to the antemedial line, which is indistinctly 

 double, black filled in with whitish, with oblique black bar from 

 costa, then oblique and slightly sinuous to submedian fold and 

 strongly angled inwards at vein 1 ; reniform with faint whitish 

 aniiulus, its centre slightly defined by brown, an oblique blackish 

 bar above it from costa ; a small spot faintly defined by brown below 

 end of cell, connected by a sinus with the postmedial line at vein 2 ; 

 postmedial line black slightly defined on outer side by whitish, bent 

 outwards below costa, then oblique and slightly sinuous, very 

 acutely angled outwards above and below vein 5, then strongly 

 dentate, bidentate at submedian fold, then with oblique black streak 

 on it and strongly angled inwards on vein 1, some black-brown 

 beyond it on inner area before the faint dentate whitish subterminal 

 line which is oblique from costa to below vein 7 ; the veins and 

 interspaces of terminal area with fine black streaks. Hind wing 

 crimson pink ; an obliquely curved medial black band from costa to 

 submedian fold, its outer edge shghtly angled outwards at vein 5 ; 

 terminal area black, narrowing to tornus, its inner edge slightly 

 incurved at vein 2 ; the termen and cilia white with a pinkish tinge 

 at outer edge of the black area, slightly intersected with brown 

 between veins 6 and 2. Underside of fore wing white ; an oblique 

 fuscous brown shade from costa before middle to vein 1 ; an obliquely 

 curved medial blackish band, the terminal area blackish with some 

 grey-white on termen ; hind wing with the basal costal area white 

 and the postmedial area white to vein 4. 



Hah. Kashmir, Goorais Valley (LeecJi), 3 $ type. Ea;p. 74 

 millim. 



