CATOCALA, 79 



brown and irrorated with black ; subbasal line black, angled 

 outwards below costa and ending at submedian fold ; antemedial 

 line whitish defined on each side by blackish suffusion, waved, 

 oblique towards costa, a black patch beyond it on cosfca and 

 dentate mark at submedian fold; reniform with pale rufous 

 centre and white annulus incompletely defined by black, its 

 outer edge waved, a blackish bar above it from costa ; an oblique 

 spot faintly defined by blackish below end of cell connected on 

 vein 2 with the postmedial line, which is black defined on each 

 side by whitish, forming a small spot on costa, bent outwards 

 below costa, then oblique and sinuous, acutely angled outwards 

 above and below vein 5, then dentate and angled inwards at 

 vein 2 ; subterminal line whitish defined on each side by brown, 

 dentate, oblique from costa to discal fold; a series of black striae 

 defined on outer side by white before termen ; cilia with a dark 

 line through them. Hind wing bright crimson ; a narrow oblique 

 black medial band from costa to submedian fold, slightly incurved 

 beyond lower angle of cell and curving inwards below vein 2 ; 

 the terminal area black, broadly at costa and narrowing to tornus, 

 its inner edge incurved below costa and at middle and excurved 

 at submedian interspace ; the termen slightly tinged with red : 

 cilia white intersected with black at the veins. Underside of 

 fore wing black, some whitish at base, an oblique whitish medial 

 band from costa to vein 2, a curved postmedial band, the 

 termen suffused with grey-white ; hind wing with black discoidal 

 lunule, some white beyond it and beyond the medial band from 

 costa to discal fold. 



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7191. Catocala juncta. (Plate CXCVI. fig. 1.) 



Catocala jxmcta, Staucl. Stett. Ent. Zeit. 1889, p. 59 ; id. Cat. Lep. pal. 

 p. 248. 



Head and thorax ochreous tinged with red-brown and mixed 

 with fuscous ; palpi whitish, the 2nd joint towards extremity and 

 the 3rd joint with some fuscous ; Irons with lateral black bars; 

 tegulse with blackish lines near base, at middle and at tips ; 

 prothorax with a blackish line ; pectus and legs whitish, the 

 tibiae irrorated with fuscous, the tarsi banded with fuscous ; 

 abdomen pale grey -brown, the anal tuft tinged with fuscous 

 at base and whitish at tip, the ventral surface whitish. Fore 

 wing greyish ochreous suftused in parts with red-brown and irrorated 

 with dark brown ; subbasal line black, curved, from costa to median 

 nervure ; antemedial line double, the inner line very indistinct, 

 the outer black and expanding into a spot at costa, oblique, 

 sinuous ; reniform with reddish brown centre and pale annulus 

 slightly defined by brown, its outer edge somewhat dentate, an 

 oblique dark bar above it from costa ; a pale spot defined by black, 

 indistinctly except on outer side, below end of cell, connected by 



