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obliquely downcurved, angled outwards above and below vein 5, 

 then oblique, angled outwards above vein 2 and at submedian fold 

 and inwards at vein 1; subterminal line whitish defined on outer 

 side by fuacous, dentate, oblique from costa to below vein 7; the 

 terminal area greyer with a series of blackish points before termon; 

 a fine waved dark terminal line ; cilia with a dark line at middle 

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

 brown, the basal inner area with some brown hair; an obliquely 

 curved black medial band from costa to vein 1, its outer edge 

 slightly sinuous: terminal area black, narrowing to tornus, its 

 inner edge incurved at veins 2 and 1 ; the termen narrowly white 

 and faintly tinged with red towards apex ; cilia white except 

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

 shade from costa before middle to the medial blackish band at 

 vein 1, the band oblique to vein 4, with sinuous edges and 

 narrowing to inner margin ; terminal area blackish, narrowing to 

 tornus, the termen grey-white towards apex ; hind wing as above 

 but the basal costal area ochreous white, the postmcdial area 

 whitish to discal fold. 



Ab. 1, francisca. Fore wing with a faint bronze-green tinge. 



Hah. Canada, Br. Columbia, New Westminster in Coll. W. 

 Barnes ; U.S.A., Colorado, California, 5 cT . -E^vj). 62-72 millim. 



7210. Catocala allusa. (Plate CXCVII. fig. 2.) 



Catocala mariana, Streck. Lep. E,bop. & Ilet. p. 99 (1874), nee Einbr. 



1858. 

 Catocala allusa, Hul.st, Bull. Brooklyn Ent. Soc. vii. p. 45 (1884); Smith, 



Cat. Noct. N. Ain. p. 342. 

 Catocala frenchii, Poling, Can. Ent. xxxiii. p. 125 (1901). 



Head and thorax dark-brown mixed with grey-white ; palpi 

 whitish at base ; tegula> with dai'k medial line ; pectus and legs 

 with more grey, the tnrsi black with pale rings ; abdomen grey- 

 brown, the ventral surface white tinged with brown. Pore wing 

 dark brown mixed with grej'-white and blackish ; subbasal lino 

 indistinct, dark, defined on outer side by whitish, sinuous, from 

 costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line double, black filled in 

 with whitish, waved, angled inwards at vein 1 ; reniform with 

 blackish centre and pale annulus indistinctly defined by blackish, 

 a dark bar above it from costa and a whitish patch before it 

 extending to costa ; a red-brown and whitish spot defined by 

 black below end of cell connected with the postmcdial line, which is 

 indistinct, black, slightly defined on outer side by whitish, bent 

 outwards below costa, then obliquely downcurved, angled outwards 

 above vein 5, then incurved, angled outwards above vein 2 and in 

 submedian fold and inwards at vein 1 ; the postmcdial area tinged 

 with rufous at middle ; subterminal line whitish defined on outer 

 side by black, dentate, obliqiie from costa to bcloAV vein 7 ; a series 

 of small blackish spots before termen ; cilia whitish and brown 

 with a dark line through them. Hind wing scarlet, the hair on 



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