CATGCALA. 85 



Catooala nuptialis, Staud. Oat. Lep. pal. p. 248 (1901). 

 Catocala jlava, Schultz, Ent. Zeit. Guben. xx. p. 86 (1806). 

 Catoccda mutilata, Schultz, Ent. Zeit. Guben. xx. p. 94 (1906). 

 Catocala fida, Schultz, Ent. Zeit. xxii. p. 169 (1909). 

 Catocala dilutior, Schultz, Ent. Zeit, xxii. p. 169 (1909). 



Head and thorax brown mixed wilh grej' and blackish ; palpi 

 "whitish towards base ; frons with dark lateral bars ; teguUe with 

 blackish medial line, the prothorax with blackish bar, the patagia 

 with some black scales near edges ; pectus brownish white ; legs 

 irrorated with fuscous, the tarsi black ringed with white ; abdomen 

 grey-brown with a slight rufous tinge, the ventral surface white. 

 Tore wing grey tinged in parts with reddish brown and irrorated 

 with black-brown ; subbasal line double, fuscous filled in with grey, 

 from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line double, brown filled 

 in with grey, oblique, sinuous ; reniform with fuscous centre and 

 grey annuliis defined by fuscous, an oblique dark bar above it from 

 costa and some pale grey before it in the cell ; a spot with rufous 

 centre and greyish annulus defined by fuscous below end of cell ; 

 a slight waved dark line from beyond upper angle of cell to inner 

 margin ; postmediai line fuscous brown, bent outwards below costa, 

 then oblique, acutely angled outwards above and below vein 5, 

 then incurved, angled outwards above vein 2, bidentate at sub- 

 median fold, then angled inwards at vein 1 and defined on outer 

 side by white ; subterminal line white defined on outer side by 

 fuscous, dentate, oblique from costa to below veiii 6 ; a series of 

 black points just before termen. .Eind wing scarlet, the hair on 

 inner margin brown and some brown hair on inner area ; a 

 curved black medial band, its inner edge incurved at submedian 

 fold and bent inwards as a streak near inner margin, its outer edge 

 angled outwards at vein 5 ; terminal area black, narrowing to 

 tornus, its inner edge incurved at veins 2 and 1 and angled out- 

 Avards at submedian fold ; the termen narrowly white and slightly 

 tinged with red at apex, then with series of slight spots in the 

 interspaces to vein 2 ; cilia white with some fuscous at extremities 

 of veins 6 to 2 and towards tornus. Underside of fore wing black- 

 brown, some whitish at base, an oblique white medial patch from 

 subcostal nervure to vein 2, a white postmediai band oblique to 

 vein 4 and slightly angled outwards at submedian fold, the termen 

 grey-white towards apex ; hind wing as above but the basal costal 

 area to discal fold and the narrow po&tmedial area to vein 5 white, 

 the medial band obsolescent below submedian fold. 



Ab. 1 . unicuha. Fore wing suffused with fuscous. 



Ab. 2. nu]}tialis. Fore wing paler grey, 



Ab, 3. fida. Fore wing with the terminal area whitish. 



Ab. 4. mutilata. Hind wing with the medial band shorter. 



Ab. 5. flava. Hind wing with the costal half orange-yellow. 



Ab. 6. Hind wing with the bands pale grey instead of black. 



Hah. Bkixaik, Leech Coll, ; Fkance ; Gekmany, Zeller, Frey and 

 Mutzell Colls. ; Austkia ; Hungary, H'Emmich Coll, ; Switzekland; 

 Spain, Bilbao ; Corsica ; Italy ; Greece, Merlin Coll. ; Turkey ; 



