96 NOCTUID.'E. 



grey strongly tinged with ochreous brown and slightly irrorafced 

 with fuscous ; subbasal line indistinct, fuscous, sinuous, from costa 

 to submedian fold ; antemedial line indistinct, double, fuscous, 

 obli(|ue, sinuous ; reniform with its centre and outer edge obscurely 

 defined by fuscous, an indistinct oblique dark bar above it from 

 costa, placed on a dark shade extending to inner margin ; a pale 

 rufous spot obscurely defined by fuscous below end of cell ; post- 

 medial line indistinctly double, bent outwards below costa, then 

 obliquely downcurved, angled outwards above vein 5, then inwardly 

 oblique and dentate, a dark shade beyond it; subterminal line 

 grejdsh defined on outer side by fuscous, dentate, oblique from 

 costa to below vein 6 ; a series of blackish points before termeu ; 

 cilia with a fine dark' line through them and whitish tips. Hind 

 wing scarlet, the hair on inner margin brownish ; an obliquelj'- 

 curved medial black hand with slightly sinuous edges from costa to 

 vein 1 ; terminal area black, narrowing to tornus, its inner edge 

 slightly incurved at vein 2 ; the termen with slight reddish marks 

 in the interspaces from apex to vein 2 ; cilia white with traces of a 

 dark line near base, blackish towards termen. Underside of fore 

 wing white, a black-brown shade from below costa before middle to 

 the oblique medial black band with irregular inner edge at submedian 

 fold, a curved black subterminal band narrowing to tornus ; hind 

 wing as above, but the basal costal area and postmedial area to 

 submedian fold, the median nervure and veins rising from it white. 



Ab. 1. transiens, Bang-Haas ined. Fore wing with blackish 

 medial shade. 



Hob. SpAiJf, Andalusia, Gibraltar (Trhy), 1 $ ; Moeocco, Tangier 

 {Meade-Waldo), 1 $: Algeria, Leech and Crowley Colls., 6 S , 

 4 5 , Batna, 1 c? , 1 $ • Exp. 78-84 millim. 



7209. Catocala francisca. (Plate CXCVII. fig. 1 .) 



Caiocala mariana, H. Eclw. Proc. Calif. Ac. Sci. vi. p. 210 (187.')) nee Street. 



(1874) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Ain. p. 342. 

 Ccdoeala francisca, H. Eclw. Bull. Brooklyn Ent. Soc. iii. p. 57 (1880). 

 Catoccda eclwardsi, Kusnezov, Kev. Euss. Ent. iii. p. 76 (1003). 

 Catocala eldoraclensis, Beutenm. Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist, sxiii. p. 148 



(1907). 



J (edvardsi). Head and thorax brown mixed with fuscous and 

 grey-white ; frons with lateral blackish bars ; pectus and legs 

 whitish tinged with brown, the tarsi blackish ringed with white ; 

 abdomen grey-brown with an ochreous tinge, the anal tuft with 

 some fuscous, the ventral surface white tinged with ochreous. 

 Fore wing daik reddish brown tinged with fuscous and mixed with 

 grey; subbasal line indistinct, dark, sinuous, from costa to sub- 

 median fold ; antemedial line double, filled in with grey, oblique, 

 sinuous ; reniform with its centre and outer edge very indistinctly 

 defined, a dark bar above it from costa ; a spot below end of cell 

 very indistinctly defined by fuscous ; postmedial line indistinct, 

 double filled in with grey, bent outwards below costa, then 



