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obliquely curved medial black band at submedian fold, a curved 

 blackish subterminal band with the area bej'ond it grey ; hind 

 "wing as above but the basal costal area white, the postmedial 

 area white to vein 4, then Avith white streaks on the veins, the 

 termeu with more white and a waved brown terminal line, 



Ab. 1. zalmimna. Fore wing somewhat greyer and less tinged 

 with brown. — Japan, W. China. 



Ab. 2. suffasa. Pore wing dark grey suffused in parts with 

 black. 



Ab. 3. excellens. Hind wing suffused with blackish. 



Ab. 4. Hind wing yellow. 



Ilab. BpaTAiN (twice) ; France ; Germany, Zeller and Mntzcll 

 Colls., Glogau, Zeller Coll. ; Austria ; Hungary, D'Emmich Coll. ; 

 Switzerland, Frey Coll. ; Spain, Catalonia, Pilbao ; N. Italt ; 

 ? S. Sweden; S. IIcssia ; Armenia; E. Siberia, Amurland, 

 Ussuri ; Jai'an, Yezo (Fryer), 1 J , 1 $, Unkodaf e (Whitele)/, 

 Leech), 3 cT , Tokio (Fenton), ' 1 J , 1 $ , Oiwake {Fryer), 1 2 , 

 Nikko (Maries), 1 J , 1 $ , Sapporo (Lewis), 1 § , Yokohama 

 (Jones), 2 $ type zalmunna ; Corba, Gensan (Leech), 2 S ; W. China, 

 Chang-yang (Fratt), 1 <S , 1 ? . Exp. 70-88 millim. 



Larva. Kirby, Butt. & Moths Eur. p. 276 ; Hffm. Raup. p. 149, pi. 37. f. 1 1. 



Ochreous grey or brownish with dark points ; the dorsal warts 

 yellow; 8th somite with a yellow prominence; 11th somite 

 wuth a pair of yellow-brown prominences ; head yellow with 

 brown lines. Food-plants, Willow and Poplar. 5-6. 



7188. Catocala sponsalis. 



Catocala sponsalis, Wlk. xiii. 1213 (1857); But,]. 111. Het. B.M. vi. 

 p. 39, pi. cxi. f. 1 ; Hmpsu. Moths Iiid. ii. p. 442. 



Head and thorax brown mixed with some whitish, the tcgulae 

 with slight dark medial line and some dark scales near tips, the 

 prothorax with some fuscous ; palpi with some fuscous at sides ; 

 Irons with lateral black bars ; tarsi banded fuscous and whitish ; 

 abdomen crimson with, some brown at base and extremity, the 

 ventral surface whitish tinged with ochreous brown. Fore wing 

 purplish brown mixed with grey ; subbasal line black, sinuous, 

 from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line black, slightly 

 angled outwards below costa, strong and oblique to submedian 

 fold, then slight and defined on outer side by whitish, angled 

 inwards at vein 1 ; reniform faintly defined by brown, somewhat 

 dentate on outer side, an oblique blackish bar above it from 

 costa ; a whitish spot defined by black below end of cell, connected 

 with the postmedial line, which is black slightly defined on outer 

 side by whitish, slightly bent outw^ards below costa, then oblique, 

 acutely angled outwards above and below vein 5, then inwardly 

 oblique, dentate, at vein 2 angled inwaixls to the spot below end 

 of cell, bideutate at submedian fold and angled inwards at 



