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NOCTDID.E. 



subbasal line black, sinuous, from costa to submedian fold ; ante- 

 medial line double, blackish filled in with whitish, oblique, sinuous ; 

 reuiform defined by blackish and its centre defined by blackisli, 

 its outer edge somewhat dentate, an oblique dark bar above it 

 from costa and some whitish before it in cell; a whitish spot 

 defined by blackish below end of cell ; postmedial line blackish 

 slightly defined on outer side by whitish, bent outwards below 

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

 oblique, minutely dentate and strongly angled inwards at vein 1 ; 

 subterminal line pale grey defined on each side by fuscous, dentate, 

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

 termcn ; a fine waved black terminal line ; cilia with a dark line 

 through them. Hind wing scarlet, the hair on inner margin pale 

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

 its outer edge slightly excurved below costa and at vein 5 ; terminal 

 area black, narrowing to tornus, its inner edge incurved at veins 

 2 and 1 ; the termen narrowly white towards apex, then with series 

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

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

 black-brown shade from costa before middle to the obliquely curved 

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

 edge curved, the termen grej'-white towards apex; hind wing as 

 above but the basal costal area white, the postmedial area white to 

 vein 5, then with white streaks on the veins. 



Ab. 1, verecimda. Fore wing paler grey. 



Ab. 2. ccerulea. Head, thorax, and fore wing much bluer grey. 



Ab. 3. diantha. Fore wing more evenly suffused with brown. 



Ab. 4. lydia. Fore wing suffused wilh fuscous black, the 

 markings obscured, the pale filling of the antemedial line and 

 the subterminal line blnish white. 



Ab. 5. zillaJi. Fore wing irrorated with crimson scales, especially 

 on the lines and the reniform. 



Ab. G, carlota. Fore wing nearly uniform whitish grey, the 

 medial area whiter ; the lines very prominent and black, the 

 postmedial line with some black suffusion on it below the angle 

 at vein 5 and forming a wide sinus below end of cell ; hind 

 wing rosy. 



Huh. tJ.S. A., Washington, Montana, Oiegon, Colorado, Glenwood 

 Springs, 2 J, Denver {Oslar), 2 S, 2 5, Utah {Poling), 1 cf , 

 Stockton, 1 S , Provo City, Vineyard, type f (^ lydia in Am. Mus. 

 Nat. Hist., California, Sierra Nevada, Lake Tahoe, New Mexico, 

 Arizona. Ea:p. 66-72 millim. 



7205. Catocala luciana. (Plate CXCVI. fig. 12:) 



Catocala luciana, Street. Lep. Ebop. & Het. p. 99 (1874) : SniitL, Cat. 



Noct. N. Am. p. 343. 

 Catocala nehrasJccB, Dodge, Can. Ent. vii. p. 2 (1875). 

 Catocala somnus, Dodge, Cao. Ent. xiii. p. 40 (1881). 



Head and thorax broAvnish grey mixed with blackish ; tegulae 



