CATOCALA. 77 



vein 1 ; subterminal line indistinct, grey, oblique to below vein 7, 

 then dentate ; the veins of terminal area with slight blackish 

 streaks ; a slight oblique dark shade from termen below apex ; 

 a series of minute blackish points before termen defined on outer 

 side by grey points. Hind wing crimson ; a narrow medial 

 black band from costa to submedian fold, excurved beyond lower 

 angle of cell and expanding into spots below costa and at 

 submedian fold ; a subterminal black band from costa to vein 2, 

 its inner edge curved, narrowing below vein 5 and expanding 

 into a spot at vein 2, its outer edge waved to termen between 

 veins 6 and 2, the termen pink with some creamy white towards 

 apex, a black spot on termen at vein 1 ; cilia creamy white, 

 chequered with brown between veins G and 2. Underside of 

 fore wing white, an oblique brown shade from below costa before 

 middle to vein I, a black medial band oblique to vein 5, then 

 narrowing, terminal area fuscous with curved inner edge and 

 some greyish on termen ; hind wing with the basal costal area 

 white, the postmedial area white to vein 3 and with some 

 white at submedian fold, the subterminal band narrow, the termen 

 brownish white. 



Hab. Nepal {HardwicJcc), 1^,1? type. Kcjy., ^ 80, $ 84 

 millim. 



7189. Catocala promissa. 



Noclua promissa, Esp. Scliinett. \v. pi. 96 (1786) ; Hilbn. Eur. Selimett., 

 Noct. ff. 334, 657-8; Dup. L4p. Fr., Suppl. iii. p. .540, pi. 46. f. 1; 

 Fit. Neue Beitr. pi. 633 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. S48. 



Noctua mneste, Hiibii. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 569 (1818). 



Nochia sf.onsa, Godt. Lep. Fr. v. p. 68, pi. 48. f. 1 (nee Linn.). 



Caiocala obsoleta, Schultz, Ent. Zeit. Guben. xx. p. 95 (1906). 



Catocala hilaris, Oberth. Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1907, p. 345. 



Catocala ochracea, Oberth. Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1907, p. 346. 



Head and thorax brown mixed with white and black ; palpi 

 white, the 2nd joint towards extremity and the 3rd joint blackisli ; 

 frons with lateral black bars ; tegulae with medial black line 

 and black tips, the patagia edged with black ; pectus and legs 

 white mixed with brown, the tibiae banded with black, the tar^i 

 black ringed wdth white; abdomen groy-brown, the anal tuft 

 with fuscous patch, the ventral surface brownish white. Pore 

 wing grey-white suffused wath reddish brown and thickly 

 irrorated with black ; subbasal line black, defined on each side 

 by white at costa, sinuous, from costa to submedian fold ; ante- 

 medial line rather diffused, double, black filled in with whitish 

 and defined on each side by white at costa, the outer line 

 expanding into patches at costa and median nervure, oblique, 

 sinuous ; reniform with whitish centre defined by brown and 

 with black spots above and below, its annulus white defined 

 by blackish, rather dentate on outer side, an oblique sinuous 

 blackish striga above it from costa; an irregular whitish spot 

 defined by black below end of cell ; postmedial line black, defined 



