84 ^rOCTUTDiE. 



7196. Catocala amabilis. (Plate CXCVI. fig. 4.) 



Catocala amabilis, Bang-Haas, Iris. xx. p. 75 (1907). 



5 . Head aucl thorax brownisli white mixed with black ; palpi 

 white towards base ; frons with lateral black bars ; pectus and legs 

 Avhite, the tibias and tarsi irrorated with black ; abdomen grey- 

 brown slightl}' mixed with crimson, the ventral surface white 

 slightly irrorated with brown and with some fulvous before anal 

 tuft. Fore wing grey-white thickly irrorated with black ; subbasal 

 line slight, black, sinuous, from costa to submedian fold ; ante- 

 medial line indistinctly double, black filled in with white, oblique 

 and slightly sinuous, incurved at vein 1 ; reniform obscurely 

 defined by black and with blackish striga in centre, its outer edge 

 somewhat dentate, an oblique dark bar above it from costa, a white 

 patch before it in cell confluent with a white spot defined by black 

 below end of cell and connected by a sinus with the postmcdial 

 line, which is black defined on outer side by whitish, bent outwards 

 below costa, then obliquely downcurved, angled outwards above and 

 below vein 5, then inwardly oblique, waved, with black streak on 

 it below submedian fold and angled inwards at vein 1, a reddish 

 brown shade beyond it ; subterminal line whitish defined on outer 

 side by fuscous, dentate, oblique to below vein 7, an oblique 

 blackish shade from termen below apex ; a series of black strite 

 before termen, a Avaved terminal line and a line through the cilia. 

 Hind wing bright crimson ; a narrow black medial band, oblique 

 to submedian fold, then bent inwards and ending at vein 1 ; 

 terminal area black, interrupted at submedian fold, its inner edge 

 incurved at vein 2 ; the termen whitish at apex, then with whitish 

 points to vein 2 ; cilia Avhite, chequered with fuscous between 

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

 shade from costa before middle to the oblique black medial band at 

 vein 1, a slight crimson tinge above its extremity, the terminal 

 area black narrowing to tornus and with some whitish on termen 

 at apex ; hind wing with the basal costal area white, the post- 

 medial area white to vein 5, then with white streaks on the 

 veins. 



Hah. W. Ttjekestan, Turcomania, Tcdschen Oasis (Hcmser), 

 3 5 ; Apghanistan, Kuschk, type t $ in Coll. Staudinger. 

 Exj). 60 millim. 



7197. Catocala nupta. 



J^octua nupta, Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. xii. p. 841 (1767); Fsp. Schiuett. iv. 



pi. 97. ff. 1, 2; Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 330 ; Godt. Lep. Fr. v. 



p. 54, pi. 45. ff. 2, ,3; Frr. Neue Eeitr. pi. 425; Calancl. Tidi. v. Ent. 



1896, p. 163, pi. 8. f. 1 Hmpsn. Motbs Ind. ii. p. 441 ; Stand. Cat. 



Lep. pal. p. 247. 

 Noctiia conciihina, Bork. Scbmett. Eur. iv. p. 21 (1792) ; Hiibn. Eur. 



Schmett., Noct. f. 329; Frr. Neue Beitr. pi. 461. 

 Catocala unicuha, Wlk. xiii. 1210 (1857); Butl. 111. Het. B.M. ri. p. 39, 



pi. ex. f. 11. 

 Cafocala obscirrata, Obertb. Et. Ent. t. p. 86 (1880). ■ 



