CATOCALA. 75 



marks ; warLs yellowish ; Sth somite with a blackish protub- 

 erance, the 11th somite with a pair of small pointed prominences. 

 Food-plant, Willow. 



7187. Catocala electa. 



Noctua 2)acta, Sehaff. Wien. Verz. p. 90 (1776); Esp. Scbmett. iv. pi. 98 



(ucc Linn.). 

 Noctua electa, Borkh. Eur. Schmett. iv. p. '26 (1792) ; Hiibn. Eur. 



Scliinett., Noct. f. 331 ; Godt. Lep. Fr. v. p. 60, pi. 46. f. 1 ; Frr. Neue 



Beitr. pi. 407; Mill. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. (3) iii. pi. 11. f. 1 (1855); 



Barrett, Lep. Brit. vi. p. 256. pi. 253. f. 1; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. 



p. 247. 

 Catocala zalmunna, Bull. Cist. Ent. ii. p. 241 (1877) ; id. 111. Het. B.M. 



iii. p. 25, pi. 47. f. 3. 

 Catocala excellens, Schultz, Ent. Zeit. Guben. xx. p. 86 (1906). 

 Catocala suffusa, Gilliner, Intern. Ent. Zeit. ii. p. 282 (1909). 

 Catocala subtristis, Schultz, Ent. Zeit. xxii. p. 168 (1909). 



Head and thorax grey mixed with brown ; palpi with the 

 2nd joint except at tips and the 3rd joint blackish ; frons with lateral 

 black bars ; tegulse with two black medial lines and white tips ; 

 prothorax with narrow blackish band, the patagia with blackish 

 streak near upper edge ; fore tibiae with black spot at extremity, 

 the tarsi black ringed with white ; abdomen grey suffused with 

 ochreous brown and with some fuscous at base of anal tuft, the 

 ventral surface white. Fore wing grey tinged with brown and 

 slightly irrorated with fuscous ; subbasal line black, excurved 

 below costa and ending at submedian fold ; antemedial line black 

 defined on inner side by white, oblique and sinuous to median 

 nervure, then obsolescent, and incurved at vein 1 ; reniform 

 defined on inner side by black, its outer side whitish and dentate, 

 its centre defined by brown, some brown suffusion beyond it and 

 an oblique brown bar above it from costa ; a spot defined by 

 blackish below end of cell, connected by a sinus with the post- 

 medial 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 incurved, dentate, and bidentate at submedian 

 fold and angled inwards at vein 1 ; subterminal line indistinct 

 and diffused, grey defined on each side by pale fuscous brown, 

 obliquely incurved from costa to below vein 7, dentate above and 

 below vein 5 and at submedian fold ; a faint oblique dark shade 

 from termen below apex; a series of black points before termen 

 defined on outer side by white points. Hind wing crimson-pink ; 

 a black medial band, strongly excurved beyond lower angle 

 of cell and ending at submedian fold ; terminal area black, 

 narrowing to tornus, its inner edge slightly incurved at veins 2 

 and 1 ; the termen white towards apex and with slight white 

 spots between veins 6 and 2 ; cilia white, slightly chequered with 

 brown between veins 6 and 2. Underside of fore wing white, 

 an oblique fuscous brown shade from costa before middle to the 



