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oblique to vein 2, then bent inwards and ending at vein 1, 

 expanding somewhat at costa and middle; terminal area black, 

 broad at costa, narrowing to tornus, its inner edge incurved at 

 veins 2 and 1 ; the termen reddish at apex, then with reddish points 

 to vein 2 ; cilia white. Underside of fore wing white, an oblique 

 blackish shade from below costa before middle to vein 1, a medial 

 black band with sinuous edges, the terminal area black narrowing 

 to tornus; hind wing with the basal costal area white, the post- 

 medial area white to discal fold, then with white streaks on the 

 veins. 



Hab. W. Turkestan, Turcomania, Kushk, 1 c? . 1 $ , Tedschen 

 Oasiii {Hauser), 3 cJ , 2 $ . Exi). 44-48 raillim. ' 



7193. Catocala lupina. 



Catocala luinna, Ileri-.-Seliaff. Eur. Schmelt. ii. p. 409, Noct. pp. 234-5 

 (1846) ; iStaud. Oat. Lep. pal. p. 248. 



Head and thorax grej'-white mixed with brown ; palpi with the 

 2nd and 3rd joints blackish except at extremities ; frons with 

 lateral black bars ; tegulse with black-brown patches near tips, 

 the prothorax with black-brown baud, the patagia with black 

 streaks near edges ; fore tibia? with black spots at extremities, 

 the tarsi black ringed with white ; abdomen whitish tinged with 

 yellow-brown. Fore wing grey suffused with reddish brown ; 

 subbasal line black, angled outwards below costa and ending at 

 median nervure ; a diffused black streak below the cell to the 

 antemedial line, which is double, black filled in with white, the 

 inner line slight, the outer expanding into a spot at costa, excurved 

 and slightl}'' sinuous, incurved at vein 1 ; reniform narrow, defined 

 by blackish, indistinctly on outer side, its centre defined by brown, 

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

 black below end of cell connected by a sinus with the postmedial 

 line at vein 2; postmedial line black slightlj^ defined on outer' 

 side by whitish and with a rather diflTused brown line beyond it, 

 forming a small spot at costa, bent outwards below costa, then 

 obliquely downcurved, acutely angled outwards above and below 

 vein 5, then oblique, dentate, angled outwards at submedian fold 

 and inwards at vein 1 ; subterminal line slight, whitish, dentate, 

 oblique from costa to below vein G, closely approximated to the 

 ])Ostmedial line ; the interspaces of terminal area with fine black 

 streaks intersecting the cili;), which have a fine w^hitish line at base. 

 Hind wing pale crimson-pink ; a narrow black medial band, 

 obliquely curved to submedian fold, then bent inwards and ending 

 at vein 1 ; the terminal area black, narrowing to tornus, its inner 

 edge incurved at vein 2 and excurved at submedian fold ; cilia 

 white, mixed with brown and with a brown line through them 

 except at apex. Underside of fore wing white, an oblique brown 

 antemedial shade from below costa to vein 1, an oblique blackish 

 medial band angled outwards at submedian fold, then narrow, the 



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