CATOCALA. 93 



with blackisli medial line, the patagia with some blackish scales 

 near upper edge ; pectus brownish white ; tarsi blackish ringed 

 with whitish ; abdomen pale red-brown, the ventral surface 

 whitish. Fore wing grey tinged with red-brown and irrorated 

 with blackish ; subbasal line black, sinuous, from costa to sub- 

 median fold ; antemedial line double, black, oblique, sinuous ; 

 reniform obscurely defined by blackish and with black patch in 

 centre, an oblique black bar above it from costa ; an irregular 

 oblique spot defined by black below end of cell ; postraedial line 

 black slightly defined on each side by grey, bent outwards below 

 costa, then obliquely incurved, acutely angled outwards above 

 vein 5, then incurved and minutely dentate, afc submedian fold 

 bent inwards and with dark streak on it ; subterminal line grey 

 defined on outer side by blackish, dentate, obliquely incurved from 

 costa to below vein 7 where it is met by a faint oblique dark streak 

 from termen below apex ; a series of small black spots before 

 termen ; a fine waved black terminal line; cilia with a blackish 

 line at middle and pale reddish brown tips. Hind wing pale 

 scarlet, the hair on inner margin brownish, some brownish hair in 

 base of submedian fold; an obliquely curved black medial band 

 from costa to vein 1, its outer edge excurved at vein 5 ; terminal 

 area black, narrowing to tornus, its inner edge incurved at veins 2 

 and 1 ; the termen narrowly white faintly tinged with red towards 

 apex, then with series of small spots in the interspaces to vein 2 ; 

 cilia white with slight dark marks at veins 6 to 2, then dark at 

 base. Underside of fore wing white, an oblique black-brown 

 shade from costa before middle to the obliquely curved black medial 

 band narrowing to inner margin at inner area, terminal area black, 

 its inner edge curved, the termen brownish grey towards apex ; 

 hind wing as above but the basal costal area and the postmedial 

 area to vein 4 white. 



Ah. 1. somniis. Head, thorax, and fore wing black sparsely 

 irrorated with grey ; abdomen and the hair at base of hind wing 

 black. 



ITab. U.S.A., jSTebraska, 1 cJ , Colorado, 1 c^ , Berkeley (Oslar), 

 1 J , 3 $ . Exj^. 70-78 millim. 



7206. Catocala electilis. (Plate CXCVIII. fig. 1.) 



Catocala electilis, Wlk. xiii. 1209 (1857); Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. 



p. 360, pi. 31. f. 8. 

 Catoccda cassandra, H. Edw. Proc. Calif. Ac. Sci. vi. p. 214 (1875) ; Smith, 



Cat. Noct. N. Am. p, M6. 



Head and thorax grey mixed with black-brown ; palpi white at 

 base and with dark band at extremity of 2nd joint ; tegulge with 

 daik medial line ; pectus white ; tarsi black ringed with white ; 

 abdomen red-brown, the ventral surface whitish. Pore wing grey 

 thickly irrorated with black, the onter half of medial area with a 

 broad black shade ; a subbasal black striga from costa ; antemedial 

 line double, filled in with grey, the outer line strong and black, 



