98 nocttjidj:. 



inner margin fuscous ; an obliquely curved black medial band from 

 costa to submedian fold, its outer edge slightly sinuous ; terminal 

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

 and excurved at submedian fold ; the apex narrowly white ; cilia 

 white except towards tornus. Underside of fore wing white, an 

 oblique blackish shade from costa before middle to the obliquely 

 curved black medial band at submedian fold, its outer edge slightly 

 angled outwards at submedian fold, terminal area black, the termen 

 grey towards apex ; hind wing as above, but the basal costal area 

 brownish white, the postmedial area white to vein 3. 



Hah. Canada, Br. Columbia, Coldstream llanch (^Miss lilcardo), 

 1 c? , 1 $ , New Westminster, Vancouver I. ; U.S.A., Washington, 

 California, Truckee in ColL W. Earnes. Exp. 74 millim. This is 

 probably an aberration of C. francisca. 



7211. Catocala pura. (riate CXCVII. fig. 3.) 



Caiocala pura, Hiilst, Bull. Brooklyu Enb. Soc. ii. p. 96 (1880) ; Smith, 

 Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 341. 



Head and thorax white mixed with black and some brown ; 

 palpi blackish towards extremity; frons with lateral black bars ; 

 tegul^ with black lines at middle and near tips, the patagia with 

 black lines near edges ; pectus and legs white mixed with fuscous, 

 the tarsi banded black and white ; abdomen pale grey tinged with 

 reddish brown, the ventral surface white slightly irrorated with 

 brown, I'ore wing white tinged with grey in parts and thickly 

 irrorated with black-brown ; subbasal line black, sinuous, from 

 costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line double, blackish, oblique, 

 sinuous ; reniform large, defined by diffused black and with its 

 centre defined by black, an oblique black bar above it from costa, 

 some white before it in cell ; a whitish spot obscurely defined by 

 blackish below end of cell, Avith a sinuous blackish line from it to 

 inner margin ; postmedial line indistinctly double, bent outwards 

 below costa, then oblique and slightly siuuous to below vein 6, 

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

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

 side by fuscous, dentate, somewhat oblique from costa to below 

 vein 6 ; a series of slight black lunules just before termen. Hind 

 wing scarlet, the hair on inner margin brownish ; an obliquely 

 curved medial black band from costa to submedian fold, its outer 

 edge excurved below costa and at vein 5 ; terminal area black, 

 narrowing to tornus, its inner edge incurved at veins 2 and 1 ; 

 the termen narrowly white towards apex tinged with scarlet at 

 inner edge, then with series of slight spots in the interspaces to 

 vein 2 ; cilia white with some fuscous at base except towards 

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

 shade from costa before middle to the oblique black medial band 

 with sinuous edges at inner area, the terminal area black with the 



