100 NOCXUIDiE. 



wing with the red replaced bj^ deep brown, ihe medial band not 

 reaching inner margin ; cilia white to tornus. — Ilcgina, 



Hob. Canada, Renfrew Co., 1 2 ? Montreal (Barnston), 1 cJ , 

 Toronto (Gibson), I $, Assiniboia, Ilegina, Alberta, Calgary 

 ( Wolley-Dod), 1 § ; U.S.A., Northern aiid Eastern States, New 

 York (Doubleday, Groie), 4 c? , 3 $ type, Wisconsin, Colorado. 

 E.vjy. 86-94 millim. 



Larva. Kellicott, Can. Ent. xiii. p. 38. 



Grey to greyisli drab, nearly iinicolorons, the ventral snrface 

 pinkish with elliptical black spots on each somite; sublateral series 

 of hoary filaments ; without protuberances ; head with black line 

 behind, Eood-plants, Poplar and Willow. 



7213. Catocala semirelicta. (Plate CXCVII. fig. 5.) 



Catocala semirelicta, Grote, 6th Eep. Peab. Acarl. gci. p. 3.5 (1874) ; id. 



Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. ii. pi. 1. f. 11; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. 



p. 342. 

 Catocala lucilla, Worthington, Papilio, iii. p. 39 (1883); Smith, Cat. Noct. 



N. Am. p. 340. 



Head and thorax white mixed with fuscous black ; palpi white 

 at base ; frons with lateral black bars ; tegulm with medial black 

 line ; pectus white ; legs \Ahite irrorated with brown, the fore 

 tibiae at extremities and tarsi banded with black ; abdomen whitish 

 suffused with ochreons brown, the ventral surface white. Pore 

 wing white irrorated with fuscous brown ; a diffused black shade 

 below base of cell ; subbasal line black, sinuous, from costa to 

 siibmedian fold ; antemedial line strong, black, oblique, sinuous ; 

 the medial area with white patches on costal area and beyond 

 upper part of reniform, some blue-grey suffusion on basal half of 

 inner area and beyond lower part of reniform and black suffusion 

 on outer part of inner area extending to termen and from costa to 

 the sinus of postmedial line including the reniform, which is large, 

 blackish with interrupted white annulus and somewhat dentate 

 outer edge ; a whitish spot defined by black below end of coll 

 formed by a sinus of the postmedial line, which is black, bent 

 outwards below costa, then dentate, oblique to below vein 6 and at 

 vein 2 forming the sinus below end of cell ; subtcrminal line white 

 defined on outer side by fuscous black, strongly dentate, somewhat 

 oblique from costa to below vein 6 ; a series of black points before 

 termen ; a waved black terminal line. Hind wing scarlet, the hair 

 on inner margin brown ; a black band obli(iuo from middle of costa 

 to vein 2, then bent inwards and ending at submedian fold ; 

 terminal area black, narrowing to tornus and with sinuous inner 

 edge below vein 3 ; cilia white. Underside of fore wing black- 

 brown, the base and inner area to middle whitish, an oblique white 

 medial patch from below costa to vein 2, postmedial band white, 

 obliquely curved, obsolescent towards inner margin, the costa 

 whitish towards apex ; hind wing with the basal costal area and 

 postmedial area to vein 5 white, the bands as above. 



