78 NOCTCID^. 



on outer side by white at costa and towards inner margin, bent 

 outwards below costa, then oblique and sinuous, angled outwards 

 above and below vein 5, then inwardlj^ oblique, dentate, angled 

 inwards at vein 1 ; subterminal line white defined on each side 

 by black, dentate, somewhat oblique from costa to below vein 6 ; 

 the veins of terminal area with slight blackish streaks ; a series 

 of black strise before termen defined on outer side by whitish ; 

 cilia chequered whitish and brown. Hind wing crimson, the 

 hair on inner margin brown ; a narrow oblique sinuous medial 

 black band from costa to vein 1 ; the terminal area black, 

 narrowing to tornus, its inner edge incurved at veins 2 and 1 ; 

 the termen pale crimson at apex, then with series of small spots 

 to below vein 2 ; cilia chequered brown and white. Underside 

 of fore wing black-brown, an oblique wedge-shaped medial white 

 patch from below costa to vein 2, a narrow white postmedial 

 band, obliquely curved to vein 4 and obsolescent towards inner 

 margin, some whitish at apex, a series of black points before 

 termen, cilia chequered brown and white ; hind wing with the 

 basal costal area pale brownish, a black discoidal lunule, 

 its extremities connected with the medial band and with some 

 Avhitish beyond its upper part, the narrow postmedial area with 

 some whitish from costa to vein 5, the marks on termen white. 



Ab. 1, ohsoleta. Hind wing suffused with black. 



Ab. 2. ocJiracea. Hind wing ochreous yellow. 



Ab. 3. Jiilaris. Fore wing with the white and dark markings 

 much more contrasted, the basal and terminal areas suff'used with 

 black. 



Bab. Britain, Leech Coll.; Feance ; Gbemany, Zeller, Frey, 

 and Mutzell Colls., Silesia, Frey Coll. ; Austria ; Hungaey, 

 D'Emmich Coll. ; Spain, Castile; Italy; Algeria; Scandinavia; 

 KussiA, Livonia; Aemenia ; ? Asia Minoe, Bithynia. Exp^ 50- 

 68 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 1G3 ; Barrett, Lep. Brit. vi. p. 265, pi. 255. f. 1 ; 

 Hffm. Eaup. p. 148, pi. 37. f. 9. 



Pale greenish grey with darker freckles ; the 4th, 8th, and 

 9th somites with dorsal ochraceous-tinged blotches ; 8th somite 

 with a dorsal prominence, the 11th with a slight ridge. Food- 

 plant, Oak. 5-6. 



7190. Catocala electra. (Plate CXCV. fig. 12.) 



Catocala electra, Bang-Haas, Iris, xxiv. p. 41, pi. iv. f. 1 (1910). 



Head and thorax grey-white irrorated with black ; the 

 tegulae and prothorax faintly tinged with red-brown, the former 

 with blackish band near upper edge ; antennae black with slight 

 angled line between their bases ; palpi white, the 2nd and 3rd 

 joints with blackish bands ; frons black at sides ; tibiai and tarsi 

 banded with black ; abdomen grey, dorsally suffused with reddish 

 brown. Fore wing grey-white tinged in parts with reddish 



