CATOCALA. 99 



costa towards apex and the apex grey ; hind wing as above but the 

 basal costal area and the postmedial area to vein 5 white. 



Hub. U.S.A., Kansas, Colorado {Snow), 1 J , 1 § , New Mexico. 

 E.rp. 74-76 millim. 



7212. Catocala unijuga. (Plate CXCVII. fig. 4.) 



Catocala unijuga, Wlk. xiii. llO-t (1857); Sti-eck. Lep. E,liop. & Het. 



p. 37, pi. T. f. 9 ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 340. 

 Catocala fletcheri, Beutenm. Bull. Am. Mus. xix. p. 509 (1903). 

 Catocala agatha, Beutenm. Bull. Am. Mus. xxiii. p. 93G (1907). 



Head and thorax grey-white mixed with brown and black ; 

 frons with lateral black bars ; tegulse with black medial line, the 

 prothorax with blackish bar, the patagia vpith blackish lines near 

 edges ; pectus brownish white ; legs brownisli and white, the tarsi 

 black ringed with white ; abdomen grey-brown, the ventral surface 

 brownish white. Fore wing grey-white thickly irrorated and in 

 parts suffused with black-brown ; subbasal line black defined on 

 outer side by whitish, from costa to submedian fold ; autemedial 

 line double, black filled in with whitish, oblique, sinuous; reidforni 

 defined by diffused black and its centre defined by blackish, its 

 outer edge somewhat dentate, an oblique blackish bar above it from 

 costa, some whitish before it in cell ; an indistinct curved slightly 

 waved line beyond the cell, a spot obscurely defined by dark brown 

 below end of cell with a sinuous black line from it to inner margin; 

 postmedial line black slightly defined on outer side by white, bent 

 outwards below cost a, theii obliquely downcurved, angled outwards 

 above and below vein 5, then oblique, dentate and more strongly 

 angled inwards at vein 1 ; subterminal line white defined on outer 

 side by black-brown, dentate, oblique from, costa to below vein G ; 

 a series of small black lunules slightly defined on outer side by 

 white just before termen. Hind wing scarlet, the hair on inner 

 margin brown and the basal inner area clothed with some brown 

 hair ; an obliquely curved medial black band from costa to vein I 

 towards which it narrows, its edges sinuous ; terminal area black, 

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

 termen narrowly white towards apex ; cilia white with some 

 fuscous near base except towards apex. Underside of fore wing 

 white, an oblique black-brown antemedial shade from costa to 

 vein 1, an obliquely curved black medial band with sinuous edges, 

 narrowing to inner margin, the terminal area black, the termen 

 grey-white towards apex ; hind wing as above but the basal 

 costal area and the postmedial area white to discal fold, a slight 

 black discoidal lunule confluent above with the medial band. 



Ab. 1. agatha. Fore wing suffused with fuscous, the markings 

 indistinct except the white subterminal line. 



Ab. 2. JletcJieri. Fore wing with the markings much darker and 

 stronger, especially the antemedial and postmedial lines ; hind 



B. 2 



