94 NOCTUID.'E, 



oblique, sinuous ; reniform defliierl by blackish and its ccnhre 

 defined by blackish ; an oblique elliptical pale spot defined by black 

 below end of cell ; postmedial lino black defined on outer side by 

 grey-white, bent outwards below costa, then obliquely incurved to 

 above vein 5 where it is angled outwards, then inwardly oblique 

 and dentate ; subtermiual line grey-white defined on each side by 

 blackish, dentate, somewhat oblique from costa to below vein f? and 

 angled outwards in submedian fold ; a series of minute blackish 

 spots before terraen. Hind wing scarlet ; an obliquely curved 

 black medial band from costa to just above inner margin towards 

 which it narrows, its outer edge excurved to vein 5 and submedian 

 fold ; terminal area black, narrowing to tornus, its inner edge 

 angled inwards at veins 2 and 1 and excurved at submedian fold ; 

 the termen white towards apex, then with series of small white 

 spots in the interspaces to vein 2; cilia white chequered with 

 black between veins 6 and 2, blackish towards tornus. Underside 

 of fore wing white, an oblique black-brown shade from costa 

 before middle to the black medial band which is obliquely excurved 

 below vein 5, at inner area, terminal area black leaving the termen 

 towards apex and the cilia whitish ; hind wing as above, but the 

 basal costal area to discal fold and the postmedial area to vein 5 

 white. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing without the black medial shade. 



Hub. U.S.A., Arizona ; Mexico, 1 $ type, Songra, Durango 

 (Becl-er), 1 c? , Mexico City {Hoege), 1 S , Grodman-Salviu Coll, 

 Exp. 92 millim. 



7207. Catocala elocata. 



Noctaa docctta, Esp. Sclimett. iv. pi. 99 (A) ff. 1, 2 (1786) ; GodL Lep. Fr. 



T. p. 58, pi. 46. f. 2; Mill. Icoiies, iii. pi. 129. ff. 4-6; Stand. Cat. Lep. 



pal. p. 247. 

 Nociua uxor, Hlibn, Eur. Sehmett., Noct. f. 328 (1802). 

 Mctua marita, Hilbn. Eur. Schiuett., Noct. f. 491 (1818). 

 Noctuanurus, Hilbn. Eur. Sehmett., ISloct. tf. 655-6 (1822). 

 Catocala locata, Staud. Iris, iv. p. 327 (1891). 



Catocala sti/x, KoUer, Jalirb. Wien. Ent. Ver. xvi. p. 4, pi. 1. f. 1 (1905). 

 Catocala lais, Schultz, Ent. Zeit. Gruben. xx. p. 94 (1906). 

 Catocala flavicans, Schultz, Ent. Zeit. Guben. xx. p. 94 (1906). 

 Catocala meridionalis, Schultz, Ent. Zeit. xxii. p. 168 (1909). 

 Catocala tenuivittata, Schultz, Ent. Zeit. xxii. p. 168 (1909). 



Head and thorax grey mixed with brown and fuscous ; tarsi 

 blackish ringed with white ; abdomen grey-brown, the ventral 

 surface whitish. Fore wing grey mixed with olive-brown and 

 fuscous ; subbasal line indistinct, double, fuscous, waved, from costa 

 to submedian fold^ antemedial line double, fuscoiis, oblique, waved; 

 reniform obscurely defined by fuscous, its outer edge somewhat 

 dentate, a dark bar above it from costa, placed on a dark shade 

 extending to inner margin ; a grey spot obscurely defined by 

 fuscous below end of cell ; postmedial line double, bent outwards 

 below costa, then obliquely downourved and slightly sinuous, 



