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NOCTUID.E. 



7186. Catocala pacta. 



Nochia pacta, Linn. Sjst. Nat. ed. x. p. 512(1858); Iliibn. Eur. Schraett-,., 

 Noct. f. 332 ; Prr. Neue Beitr. pis. 496, 503 ; Herr.-Schaff. Schmett. 

 Eur., Noct. fiF. 232-3 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 248. 



Noctua sitecica, Esp. Schmett. iv. pi. 99. ff. 1, 2 (1787). 



Catocala discolor, Schultz, Ent. Zeit. xxii. p. 109 (1909). 



Head and tegulae grey-white mixed with some brown ; palpi 

 white with some blackish at extremity of 2iid joint and on 

 3rd joint ; frons with lateral bJack bars, the vertex of head with 

 V-shaped black mark ; antennae with the shaft black above on 

 basal half ; teguloe with black lines at middle and near tips ; 

 thorax rufous mixed with some white, the prothorax with white 

 line, the patagia with some white and black scales on upper edge ; 

 pectus and legs white, the fore tibiae at extremity and the tarsi 

 banded with black ; abdomen bright crimson-pink, the base, 

 extremity and ventral surface white. Fore wing pale blue-grey 

 slightly irrorated with red-brown, the costal area whitish ; sub- 

 basal line black, angled outwards below costa and ending at sub- 

 median fold ; antemedial line indistinctly double, the outer line 

 black, the inner faint, red-brown, slightly angled outwards below 

 costa and incurved at vein 1 ; reniform small, tinged with rufous, 

 defined bj' red-brown and with red-brown lunule in centre ; a 

 spot defined by brown below end of cell, connected by a streak 

 with the postmedial line, which is red-brown, bent outwards below 

 costa, then oblique and slightly sinuous, acutely angled outwards 

 above and below vein 5, then oblique, dentate and incurved at 

 vein 1 ; traces of a waved brown subterminal line, oblique from 

 costa to below vein 6 ; a series of black points before termen with 

 w^hite points beyond them ; cilia brownish. Hind wing bright 

 crimson-pink ; a curved black medial band from costa to sub- 

 median fold ; the terminal area blackish, narrowing to tornus ; 

 the termen and cilia white with some pink scales between it and 

 the black area, slightly intersected by brown at veins 6 to 2. 

 Underside of fore wing white, an oblique black-brown shade 

 from below costa before middle to the medial blackish band at 

 inner area, a curved blackish subterminal band, the terminal 

 area grey-white ; hind wing as above but the costal and terminal 

 areas white, the latter irrorated with brown, the medial black 

 band not quite reaching costa and the subterminal band ending 

 at vein 1. 



Ab. 1. discolor. Hind wing yellowish red. 



Hab. Germany, Prussia, Trey Coll., Esthonia, Frey Coll. 

 Hungary, D'Emmich Coll.; Swedkn ; Finland, Mutzell Coll. 

 EussiA, Livonia, Zeller Coll., St. Petersburg, Zeller Coll., Urals 

 W. Turkestan, Issyk-Kul ; W. Siberia, Altai ; E. Turkestan, Hi 

 Mongolia, Changai Mts. ; E. Siberia, Amurland. Exjp. 46 

 60 millim. 



Larva. Kirby, Butt. & Moths Eur. p. 276; Hffm, Eaup. p. 149, pi. 37. f. 10. 



lleddish grey marbled with blackish, the dorsum with K-shaped 



