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prothorax with slight brown line; pectus and legs white, the 

 latter irrorated Avith black, the tarsi blackish ringed with white ; 

 abdomen pale grey tinged with reddish brown, the ventral surface 

 white. Fore wing grey slightly tinged in parts with brown and 

 irrorated with black ; subbasal line blackish defined on outer side 

 by grey, sinuous, from costa to subraedian fold; antemedial line 

 double, fuscous filled in with grey and with whitish towards inner 

 margin, oblique, sinuous ; reniform defined by blackish and its 

 centre defined by blackish, a blackish bar above it from costa and 

 some blackish suffusion beyond it ; an elliptical spot defined by 

 blackish and with blackish centre below end of cell, a waved black 

 line from it to inner margin ; postmedial line indistinctly double 

 filled in with grey, bent outwards below costa, then obliquely 

 incurved to above vein 5 where it is angled outwards, then inwardly 

 oblique, dentate, and with white spot at inner margin ; subterminal 

 line grey-whito defined on outer side by blackish, dentate, obliquely 

 incurved from costa to below vein 7 ; a series of black striae before 

 termen ; a slight waved black terminal line and brown line near 

 base of cilia. Hind wing scarlet, the hair on inner margin brown, 

 some brownish hair at base and on inner area ; an obliquely curved 

 medial black band from costa to vein 1, expanding towards costa 

 and its outer edge excurved at vein 5 ; terminal area black, 

 narrowing to tornus, its inner edge angled inwards at veins 2 and 1 

 and excurved at submediau fold ; the termen with white patch at 

 apex, then with series of small Avhite spots in the interspaces to 

 vein 2 ; cilia white with a faint dark line through them except 

 towards apex. Underside of fore wing white, an oblique fuscous 

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

 medial band, obliquely excurved below vein 5, a curved black 

 terminal band leaving the termen towards apex and the cilia 

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

 median nervure and the postmedial area to vein 3 white, the 

 medial band narrow. 



Hah. Kashmir, Huttu {Leech), 1 c? , Goorais Valley {Leech), 1 c? ; 

 Punjab {Mrs. Manger), 1 (^ type, Simla {Harford), 1 J, Murree 

 {Harford), 2 c? , 2 $ . E.Vj). 90-96 millim. 



7200. Catocala marmorata. (Plate CXCVI. fig. 3.) 



Catocala marmorata, W. II. Edw. Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. ii. p. 508 (1864) ; 

 Streck, Lop. Ehop. & Het,. p. 73, pi. ix. f. 6; Smitli, Cat. Noct. N. Am. 

 p. 340. 



S . Head and tegula3 dark brown mixed with grey and some 

 rufous; palpi whitish towards base; frons with lateral dark bars; 

 tegulse with black-brown medial line ; thorax rufous mixed with 

 some grey-white, the prothorax with dark brown bar ; pectus white 

 tinged with brown ; legs dark brown mixed with grey ; abdomen 

 pale reddish brown, the ventral surface whitish. Fore wing grey- 

 white mixed with some rufous and irrorated with black-brown, 

 a curved black-brown fascia from middle of costa to termen below 



