CATOCALA. 83 



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

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

 a curved fuscous subtermiual shade except at costa, the area 

 beyond it grey ; hind wing white with a pink tinge above inner 

 margin, the medial band as above but obsolescent towards costa, 

 a narrow sinuous blackish subterminal band obsolete towards costa 

 where it is replaced by dark irroration, the area beyond it white. 



Hcd>. W. Turkestan", Perghana ; E. Turkestan, Hi, Kungess, 

 1 d, 1 ?• Exp. 58 millim. 



*7195. Catocala optima. (Plate CXCVI. fig. 2.) 



Catocala optima, Staud. Stett. Eut. Zeit. 1888, p. 57 ; id. Oat. Lep. pal. 

 p. 248. 



S . Head and thorax pale grey mixed with fuscous ; palpi 

 white at base ; frons with lateral black bars ; pectus white ; 

 abdomen grey slightly tinged with red-brown, the ventral surface 

 white with faint rufous segmental bands. Fore wing grey mixed 

 with fuscous and faintly tinged with red-brown ; subbasal line 

 blackish defined on outer side by pale grey, sinuous, from costa to 

 submedian fold ; antemedial line blackish defined on inner side by 

 pale grey, oblique, slightly waved towards costa, and incurved at 

 vein 1 ; an oblique pale grey shade from middle of costa ; reniform 

 defined by blackish and with its centre defined by blackish, rather 

 irregular ; an oblique pear-shaped pale grey spot defined by blackish 

 below end of cell connected by a sinus in submedian fold with the 

 postmedial line, which is blackish defined on outer side by pale 

 grey, bent outwards below costa, then obliquely downcurved to 

 below vein 6, then oblique, slightly sinuous to submedian fold, 

 then waved ; subterminal line pale grey defined on outer side by 

 blackish, waved, oblique to below vein 6 ; an oblique blackish 

 shade from apex ; a series of black sti'iae before termen ; a fine 

 waved black terminal line ; cilia with a waved brown line at 

 middle. Hind wing bright crimson ; a narrow black medial band 

 expanding somewhat at middle, oblique to submedian fold, then 

 bent inwards and ending at vein 1 ; a terminal black band broad 

 at costa and narrowing to tornus, slightly angled inwards at veins 

 2 and 1 and very narrow in submedian interspace ; the apex 

 narrowly white ; cilia white chequered with black at base at 

 veins 6 to 2. Underside of fore wing white, an oblique blackish 

 shade from below costa before middle to the oblique curved black 

 medial band at submedian fold, the terminal area black, narrowing 

 to tornus ; hind wing as above but with the costal area white to 

 discal fold and vein 2 before and beyond the medial band and 

 veins 4 to 2 slightly streaked with white on postmedial area. 



$ . Fore wing with the postmedial line angled outwards below 

 vein 6, then incurved to above vein 2. 



Hah. E. TuEKESTAN, Kuldja, type t 6 ? in Coll. Piingeler, 

 Exp. 52 millim, 



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