86 



NOCXUlDiE. 



Scandinavia; Russia, Livonia, Zeller Coll. ; ? Asia Minor, Bithyiiia ; 

 W. Tukkestan, Issyli-Kul, Ala Tau ; W. Siberia, Altai; E. Tue- 

 KESTAN, Hi ; E. Siberia, Amuiiand, 2 $ , TJssxiri ; Japan, Yezo 

 {Pryer), 1 ^ ; Punjab {Mrs. Manyer), 1 5 , type unicuba. Exp. 

 70-94 millim. 



Larva. Meyrick, Brit. Lep. p. 162 ; Barrett, Lep. Brit. vi. p. 254, pi. 253. 

 f, 2 ; Hffm. Raup. p. 148, pi. 37. f. 6. 



Grey irrorated with brown ; somite 8 with a dark dorsal blotch, 

 the 8th and 11th somites with dorsal prominences. Eood-plants: 

 Salicc, Poplar, Ash. 5-7. 



7198. Catocala szechuena, n. sp. (Plate CXCVI. fig. 5.) 



c? . Head and thorax red-brown mixed with grey and some 

 fuscous ; palpi whitish at base ; tegulae with slight dark lines near 

 base and at middle ; x^ectus and legs brownish white, the latter 

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

 pale grey tinged with red-brown, the ventral surface white. Pore 

 wing grey tinged with red-brown and irrorated with black ; a slight 

 blackish subbasal line from costa to siibmedian fold ; antemedial 

 line double, the lines rather widely separated, slightly filled in with 

 whitish at inner margin, oblique, sinuous ; reniform obscurely 

 defined by blackish, irregular ; a very indistinct spot defined on 

 outer side by blackish below end of cell; medial line blackish, 

 escurved round eud of cell, then oblique and minutely waved ; 

 postmedial line double, brownish, bent outwards below costa, then 

 minutely waved, obliquely incurved to above vein 5, then inwardly 

 oblique ; subterminal line greyish defined on outer side by blackish, 

 waved, oblique from costa to below vein 6, and slightly angled 

 outwards in submedian fold ; a series of slight blackish striae before 

 termen ; cilia brownish white at tips. Hind wing scarlet, the hair 

 on inner margin pnle brownish and some pale brownish hair at 

 base ; a narrow black medial band, expanding into a small spot 

 below costa, then excurved and ending at submedian fold ; tci'minal 

 area black, narrowing to tornus, its inner edge angled inwards at 

 vefijis 2 and 1 ; the termen with some white at apex, then with 

 series of small white spots to vein 2; cilia white, brown at base 

 towards tornus. Underside of fore wing white, an oblique brown 

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

 band, incurved beyond the cell, then obliquelj^ excurved, a curved 

 black terminal band leaving the termen towards apex and the 

 cilia white ; hind wing as above, but the basal costal area to 

 median nervure and the postmedial area to vein 3 white. 



Ilab. W. China, Ta-chien-lu (Pratt), 1 c? type. Kvj^. 78 

 millim. 



7199. Catocala concubia. 



Catocala concuhia, Wlk. xiii. 1210 (1867) ; Butl. 111. Het. B.M. vi. p. 39, 

 pi. 110. f. 10; Hiiipsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 442. 



Head and thorax grey mixed with fuscous and some brown ; 

 palpi white at base; tegulae with slight black medial line, the 



