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grey tinged with red-brown and irrorated with dark brown ; 

 subbasal line slight, dark, excurved below costa and ending at 

 median nervure; antemedial line double, oblique, waved ; reuiform 

 with its centre and outer edge defined by rather diti'used brown, an 

 oblique dark bar above it from costa ; a small pale spot obscurely 

 defined by brown below end of cell ; a faint curved line beyond the 

 cell from vein 6 to submedian fold ; postmedial line blackish, bent 

 outwards below costa, then oblique and slightly sinuous, acutely 

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

 strongly angled inwards at vein 1 and with black streak on it 

 below submedian fold ; subterminal line whitish defined on outer 

 side by blackish, dentate, oblique from costa to below vein 2 ; 

 a series of blackish points before termen. Hind wing scarlet, the 

 hair on inner margin pale brown ; an obliquely curved medial 

 black band from costa to vein 1, towards which it narrows, its 

 edges slightly siniious ; terminal area black, narrowing to tornus, 

 its inner edge slightly incurved at veins 2 and 1 ; the termen with 

 some white tinged with red towards apex ; cilia white, brown at 

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

 brown shade from below costa before middle to vein 1, the white 

 medial band slightly tinged with red below the cell, a curved black 

 postmedial band with sinuous edges, narrowing to inner margin, 

 the terminal area black, narrowing to tornus and wdth some grey 

 irrorated with brown on apical part of termen ; hind wdng as 

 above, but the medial band broader, with more sinuous edges and 

 ending at submedian fold, the narrow postmedial area white to 

 discal fold. 



Ab. 1. iMvdita. Fore wing bluer grey ; hind wing with the 

 apex white without any red tinge. 



Ab. 2. Cleopatra. Fore wing rather more evenly suffused with 

 brown. 



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7204. Catocala faustina. (Plate CXCVI. fig. 11.) 



CaLocala faustina, Streck. Lep. Rbop. & Het. p. 21, pi. iii. f. 8 (1873) ; 



Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 341. 

 Catocala zillah, Streck. Lep. Rhop. & Het. p. 129 (1877). 

 Catocala verecunda, Hulst, Bull. Brookljn Ent. Soc. vii. p. 45 (1884). 

 Catocala carlota, Beutenm. Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. ix. p. 212 (1897). 

 Catocala coindea, Beutenm. Bull. Aui. Mus. Nat. Hist, sxiii. p. 939 



Catocala cliantha, Beutenm. Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist, xxiii. p. 937 



(1907). 

 Catocala lycUa, Beutenio. Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist, xxiii. p. 939 (1907). 



Head and thorax grey-Avhite mixed with some reddish brown 

 and fuscous ; tegulse with blackish medial line, the prothorax with 

 slight black line ; pectus white ; tarsi blackish ringed with white ; 

 abdomen pale rufous, the ventral surface white. Fore wing grey- 

 white faintly tinged with brown and irrorated with fuscous ; 



