82 NOCTUID-E. 



terminal area blackish narrowing to tornus and with some groyish 

 at apex, a fine waved dark terminal line and white line at base of 

 cilia ; hind wing white, the inner half tinged with pink, the medial 

 band as above, the terminal area suffused with greji toAvards apex, 

 a fine waved dark terminal line and white line at base of cilia. 



Bob. Austria, Istria, Leech Coll. ; Russia, Urals ; Armenia, 

 Caucasus, Zeller, Frey and Mutzell Colls. ; ? Asia Minor, Bithynia ; 

 Khurdistan ; "vV. Turkestan, 1 2 , Tarbagatai Mts., Ala Tau ; 

 W. Siberia, Altai. Exp. 50-58 millim. 



Larva. Kirby, Butt. & Moths Eur. p. 276 ; Hffin. Eanp. p. 149. 



Ochreous grey with some dark points and two slight dorsal lines: 

 8th somite with a dark prominence, the 11th with two small 

 pointed prominences ; warts yellowish ; head grey with dark lines 

 and two reddish prominences. Food-plant. Willo\v. 6. 



7194. Catocala desiderata. (Plate CXCVI. fig. 7.) 



Catocala. desiderata, Staud. Stett. Ent. Zeit. 1888, p. 69 ; id. Cat. Lep. pal. 

 p. 248. 



Head and thorax white mixed with red-brown ; palpi with the 



2nd joint blackish towards extremity and some black on 3rd joint ; 



frons with lateral black bars ; a V-shaped brown mark between 



antennae ; tegiilse w'llh. two medial blackish lines filled in with 



white and white tips ; prothorax with narrow red-brown band ; 



pectus, legs, and abdomen white, the last dorsally tinged with 



red-brown. Fore wing grey-white suffused with pale red-brown, 



the costal area whiter ; subbasal line slight, black, excurved below 



costa and ending at median nervnre ; a black-brown streak below 



submedian fold and a streak above it before the antemedial line, 



which is represented by an oblique sinuous black striga from costa 



and a slight line faintly defined on inner side by white from cell 



to inner margin, angled inwards at vein 1 ; reniform very faintly 



defined on outer side by a dentate brown line, an oblique brown 



striga above it from costa ; traces of a spot defined by brown below 



end of cell, connected by a sinus with the postmedial line at 



vein 2 ; postmedial line with black striga from costa, then brown 



and slight, bent outwards below costa, then oblique, very acutely 



angled outwards above and below vein 5, then waved, strongly 



excurved at submedian fold below which there is an oblique black 



streak on it, strongly angled inwards on vein 1, a faint red-brown 



line beyond it, more prominent at submedian fold ; the terminal 



area with fine black streaks on the veins and faint whitish streaks 



in the interspaces; cilia with a brownish line through them. 



Hind wing pale pink ; a narrow oblique sinuous black medial band 



from costa to submedian fold, angled outwards at vein 5 ; terminal 



area black, narrowing to tornus, its inner edge incurved at vein 2 



and excurved at submedian fold ; the termen except towards tornus 



and cilia white with a faint pinkish tinge on outer edge of the 



black area. Underside of fore wing white, an oblique brown 



