90 NOCTUID^. 



side by wliite, oblique, dentate; reniform defined by black and 

 with its centre defined by black, its outer edge somewhat dentate, 

 placed on an oblique dark shade from costa to lower angle of cell, 

 some white before it in the cell ; a large rather triangular white 

 spot defined by black below end of cell; postmedial line blackish, 

 bent outwards below costa, then oblique, acutely angled outwards 

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

 incurved at vein 1 and with black streak on it below submedian 

 fold, some white before it beyond the cell and beyond it at middle ; 

 subterminal line white defined on outer side by blackish, dentate, 

 oblique from costa to below vein 7 ; an oblique sinuous black 

 streak from termen below apex ; a series of black striae before 

 termen ; a fine waved black terminal line. Hind wing orange- 

 scarlet, the hair ou inner margin brownish ; a narrow curved 

 black medial band from costa to vein 1, its outer edge slightly 

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

 torn us, its inner edge angled inwards at veins 2 and 1 ; the termen 

 narrowly white tinged with red towards apex, then with series of 

 small spots in the interspaces to vein 2 ; cilia white, fuscous 

 towards tornus. Underside of fore wing white, an oblique black- 

 brown shade from costa before middle to the obliquely curved 

 medial black band at submedian fold, terminal area black, its 

 inner edge curved and slightly waved, the termen brownish white 

 towards apex ; hind wing as above, but the basal costal area 

 ochreous white, the postmedial area white to vein 5, a black striga 

 on upper discocellular. 



Ab. 1. ijer])lexa. Pore wing paler and slightly more tinged with 

 blue-gre3^ 



Hah. Canada, Hudson's Bay, Ontario (Bush), 1 5 ; U.S.A., 

 Northern and Eastern States, Massachusetts, 1 (5 , New York, 

 2 c? , 2 $ , Colorado. E.vp. 82-98 millim. 



Larva. II. Edw. Papilio, iii. p. 24. 



Dull fawn colour ; dorsal line pale brownish, a subdorsal slightly 

 waved line, and a brown stigmatal line; head with black line 

 behind. Food-plants, Willow and Poplar. 



7203. Catocala californica. (Plate CXCVI. fig. 9.) 



Catocala californica, W. H. Edw. Pi-oc. Ent. Soc. Phil. ii. p. 509 (1864) ; 



Streck. Lep. Ebop. & Het. p. 98, pi. 11. f. 13; Smith, Cat. Noc-t. 



N. Am. p. 343. 

 Catocala mariana, H. Edw., Street. Lep. Ehop. & Het. p. 99 (1871) ; 



Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 342. 

 Catocala cleopatra, Streck. Lep. Ehop. & Het. p. 99 (1874). 

 Catocala iierdita, Streck. Lep. Ehop. & Het. p. 100 (1874). 



Head and thorax reddish brown mixed with grey ; palpi brown 

 towards extremity of 2nd joint; frons with lateral blackish bars; 

 tegulse with blackish medial line, the prothorax with narrow 

 blackish band ; tarsi banded with blackish ; abdomen grey-brown 

 with dark lateral lines except at base and extremity. Fore wing 



