CATOCALA. 95 



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

 a dark shade beyond it ; subterrainal line grey defined on each side 

 by fuscous, dentate, oblique from costa to below vein 6 ; a series 

 of blackish points before termen ; cilia with a dark line near base 

 and whitish tips. Hind wing scarlet, the hair on inner margin 

 brownish ; an obliquely curved medial black band with sinuous 

 edges from costa to vein 1, then obsolescent to near inner margin ; 

 terminal area black, narrowing to tornus, its inner edge angled 

 inwards at veins 2 and 1 ; the termen narrowly pale reddish at 

 apex, then with series of slight reddish marks in the interspaces to 

 vein 1 ; cilia white with slight fuscous marks near base, wholly 

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

 black-brown shade from below costa before" middle to the oblique 

 medial black band with sinuous edges and narrowing to inner 

 margin at submedian fold, a curved black subterminal band from 

 costa to tornus, its inner edge slightly angled outwards at sub- 

 median fold ; hind wing as above, but the basal costal area and 

 postmedial area to discal fold, the median nervure and veins rising 

 from it white. 



Ab. 1. st}jw. Head, thorax, abdomen, and fore wing suffused 

 with fuscous, 



Ab. 2. locata. Hind wing with the medial band narrower and 

 not reaching inner margin. 



Ab. 3. jlavicans. Hind wing yellow. 



Ab. 4. meridioncdis. Fore wing on underside with the basal and 

 medial patches yellowish. 



Ifah. Franck ; Germany, Zeiler and Mutzell Colls. ; Axistbta, 

 Leech Coll. ; Hongart, D'Emmich Coll. ; Switzerland, Frey Coll. ; 

 Si'AiN, Gibraltar (Irby) ; Greece, Merlin Coll. ; S. Sweden ; Ar- 

 i^ifnta; IvnuRDisTAN ; Asia Minor, Pontus, Bithynia, Taurus; 

 Cyprus (Hiss Bate, Buchnill), 3 c7 ; Syria ; Persia, Urumiah 

 (OuntJier), 1 cJ ; W. Turkestan, Turcomania, Ferghana, Issyk-kul ; 

 W. Siberia, Altai; E. Turkestan, Hi. Kvj'). 64-88 millim. 



Larva. Ivirby, Butt. & Moths Em-, p. 275 ; Hffm. Eaiip. p. 148, 

 pl.37. f. 6. 



Grey or brownish grey with dark mottlings and two broad dark 

 lateral stripes, the ventral surface flesh-coloured with a series of 

 brown spots ; 8th somite with a flesh-coloured prominence with 

 dark spot behind it ; Uth somite with two yellowish prominences ; 

 head with two slight prominences. Food-plants, Poplar and 

 Willow. 7-8. 



7208. Catocala oberthuri. 



Catocala oherthurii, Aust. Le Nat. i. p. 85 (1879); Oberth. Et. Ent. vi. 



p. 92, pi. 1. f. 1 ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 247. 

 Catocala gitana, Mab. Bull. See. Philoiu. ix. p. 64 (1885). 



Head and thorax red-brown slightly tinged with grey and mixed 

 with fuscous ; tarsi blackish ringed with white ; abdomen pale grey 

 tinged with red-brown, the ventral surface whitish. Fore wing 



