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obscurely defined by blaekisb, a whitish patch before it in cell aud 

 a diffused black bar above it from costa, the area beyond it suffused 

 with black to the angle of the postmedial line where it is met by 

 an oblique dark shade from termen below apex; a w'hitish spot 

 tinged with rufous and defined by dark brown below end of cell 

 connected by a sinus with the postmedial line at vein 2 ; postmedial 

 line black slightly defined on outer side by whitish, bent outwards 

 below costa, then oblique and slightly sinuous, very acutely angled 

 outwards above and below vein 5, then oblique, dentate, strongly 

 incurved at vein 1, a pale rufous patch beyond it between veins 

 4 and 3 ; subterminal line whitish defined on outer side by brown, 

 dentate, oblique from costa to below vein 6 ; a series of blackish 

 striae before termen. Hind wing scarlet, the hair on inner margin 

 brown ; an obliquely curved medial black band from costa to vein 1, 

 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 submedian fold; the termen narrowly white towards 

 apex, its inner edge faintly tinged with red; cilia w^hite with 

 slight fuscous spots at veins 6 to 2, then fuscous at base and 

 wholly fuscous towards tornus. Underside of fore wing black with 

 some brownish white at base, an obli(jue white medial bar from 

 below costa to vein 2, a white postmedial band, oblique to vein 4, 

 narrowing and tinged with brown towards inner margin, the 

 apical part of termen brownish white ; hind wing as above, but 

 the basal costal area ochreous white, the postmedial area white to 

 discal fold. 



Ab. 1. virgilia. Fore wing mostly suffused with fuscous. 

 Ab. 2. volumnia. Fore wing with dilFused whitish streaks ; 

 hind wing with the medial band reaching the inner margin. 



Ab. 3. Valeria. Fore wing pale fawn-brown ; hind wing with 

 the medial band narrow. — Arizona. 



ffab. U.S.A., Colorado, California, Mendocino Co., 3 d" , Arizona. 

 Exj). 70-78 miliim. 



7202. Catocala parta. (Plate CXC7I. fig. 10.) 



Catocala parta, Guen. Noct. iii. p. 84, pi. 16. f. 1 (1802); S'treck. Lep. 



Khop. & Het. p. o8, pi. v. f. 10 ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 340. 

 Catocala loerjilcxa, Streck. Le]). Ebop. & Het. p. 38, pi. v. t". 11 (1874). 

 Catocala ixtidans, Hulst, Bull. Brooklyn Ent. Soc. vii. p. 43 (1884). 



Head and thorax grej^-white mixed with reddish brown ; palpi 

 with some fuscous towards tips ; frons with lateral fuscous bars ; 

 teguloe with black lines near base, at middle and near tips, the 

 prothorax with black line, the patagia edged with black ; pectus 

 brownish white; tarsi blackish ringed with white; abdomen pale 

 rufous, the ventral surface white tinged w ith rufous. Fore wing 

 grey-white slightly tinged with brown and irrorated with fuscous; 

 a blackish streak in submedian fold to the antemedial line, its 

 lower edge giving off a slight fork at middle ; a curved subbasal 

 black striga from costa ; antemedial line blackish defined on inner 



