83 KocruiD^E. 



apex, narrowing at costa and towards tcrmen ; subbasal line 

 indistinct, brown, curved, from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial 

 line double, brown filled in with white, angled outwards below 

 costa, then oblique, sinuous; reniform defined by dark brown, 

 obscured by the dark fascia and hardly traceable, some Avhite before 

 it in cell; traces of a spot defined by brown and with some white 

 on its inner side below end of cell ; an oblique slightly waved 

 brown line from vein 5 beyond the cell to inner margin ; postmedial 

 line double, brown filled in with white, bent outwards below costa, 

 then oblique, acutely angled outwards above vein 5, then inwardly 

 oblique, dentate, angled outwards above vein 2 and at submedian 

 fold and inwards at vein 1; subterminal line prominent, white 

 defined on each side by brown, dentate, oblique from costa to 

 below vein 6; a series of small blackish spots just before termen ; 

 cilia white at tips. Hind wing scarlet, the hair on inner margin 

 fuscous brown, the inner area with some brown hair; a curved 

 black medial band, its inner edge incurved at submedian fold and 

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

 narrowing towards tornus, its inner edge sinuous and incurved at 

 veins 2 and 1 ; the termen narrowly white tinged with red at apex, 

 then with series of slight spots in the interspaces to vein 2 ; cilia 

 Avhite with some fuscous at veins 6 to 2 and towards tornus. 

 Underside of fore wing black, some whitish at base, an oblique 

 sinuous white medial bar from below costa to vein 2, an obliquely 

 curved white postmedial band slightly angled outwards in sub- 

 median fold, the apex greyish; hind wing as above, but the basal 

 costal area to discal fold and the postmedial area to vein 5 white, 

 a black discoidal lunule conjoined above to the medial band. 



Hah. U.S.A., New York, Ohio, Virginia, Montgomery Co., 1 <S , 

 Kentucky, 1 S , Kansas, California. Exp. 100 millim. 



7201. Catocala Irene. (Plate CXCVI. fig. 8.) 



Catocala Irene, Behr, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. iii. p. 24 (1870) ; Smith, Cat. 



Noct. N. Am. p. 343. 

 Catocala virgilia, H. Edw. Bull. Brooklyn Ent. Soc. iii. p. 56 (18S0). 

 Catocala volumnia, H. Edw. Bull. Brooklyn Ent. Soc. iii. p. 66 (1880). 

 Catocala Valeria, H. Edw. Bull. Brooklyn Ent. Soc. iii. p. 56 (1880). 



Head and thorax red-brown mixed with grey ; palpi white 

 tinged with red-brown towards base, fuscous towards tips ; frons 

 with lateral black bars ; tegulce with black medial line, the pro- 

 thorax with black bar, the patagia with black lines near edges ; 

 pectus and legs white tinged with brown, the tarsi blackish ringed 

 with white ; abdomen grey-brown tinged with rufous, the anal 

 tuft with some fuscous, the ventral surface white tinged with 

 ochreous brow'n. Fore wing grey suft'used with bright red-brown 

 and irrorated with blackish, the basal area suffused with blackish 

 to vein 1 ; subbasal line black, sinuous, from costa to submedian 

 fold ; antemedial line double, black filled in with rufous, oblique, 

 sinuoas, angled inwards at median nervure and vein 1 ; reniform 



