CAIOCALl. 101 



ITah. Canada, Ontario, 1 J type, Manitoba, Ilusavick {WalUs), 

 1 c5' , Winnipeg- {WalUs), 1 $; U.S.A., Indiana, Illinois. E.vp. 80 

 millim. The type bears a label tliat it was exhibited at the 

 Centennial of 1&76, and the red of hind wing is faded to pale 

 yelloNvish. 



*7214. Catocala nevadensis. (Plate CXCVII. fig. 6.) 



Catocala nevadensis, Beutenm. Bull. Ain. Mus. xxiii. p. 935 (1907). 

 Catocala montana, Eeutenui. BliU. Am. Mus. xxiii. p. 935 (1907). 



S . Head and thorax fuscous white mixed with black ; frons 

 with lateral black bars ; tegulte with black medial line ; pectus and 

 legs white mixed with blackish, the tarsi ringed black and white; 

 abdomen pale grey tinged with brown, the ventral surface white. 

 Fore wing white thickly irrorated and suffused with black ; sub- 

 basal line black, sinuoas, from costa to submedian fold; antemedial 

 line black defined on inner side by whitish, oblique, waved ; an 

 oblique irregularly wedge-shaped white patch from middle of costa 

 to median nervure ; reniform indistinctly defined by black and with 

 some black in centre, its outer edge irregular, some black suffusion 

 above it on costa ; an oblique wedge-shaped white spot defined by 

 black below end o£ cell ; postmedial line blackish defined on outer 

 side by white, forming a small spot at costa, bent outwards below 

 costa, obliquely incurved to below vein 6, then waved, some white 

 suffusion faintly tinged with rufous before it from costa to discal 

 fold and beyond it at middle ; subterminal line white defined on 

 outer side by diffused black and on inner side also towards costa 

 and inner margin, waved, rather oblique from costa to vein 6 ; a 

 series of black stria) before ter men. Hind wing scarlet ; an oblique 

 black medial band from costa to vein 1 towards which it is slightly 

 bent inwards, expanding slightly below costa and its outer edge 

 excurved at vein 5 ; a terminal black band narrowing to tornus, its 

 inner edge excurved in submedian interspace; the termen narrowly 

 white tinged with red towards apex and with slight spots in the 

 interspaces between veins 6 and 2 ; cilia white, brown towards 

 tornus. Underside of fore wing white, an oblique blackish shade 

 from costa to submedian fold where it joins the oblique black 

 postmedial band narrowing to inner margin and Avith its outer edge 

 excurved at vein 5, the terminal area black leaving the apical part 

 of termen Avhitish Avith some black points on termen ; hind wing 

 Avith the basal costal area and the postmedial area to vein 4 white, 

 a small black discoidal spot conjoined to the medial band. 



2 . Fore wing more suffused Avith black. 



Ab. 1. montana. Fore wing with the white patches on medial 

 and postmedial areas indistinct and irrorated with blackish ; hind 

 wing Avith the white on termen not tinged Avith red. 



Nab. U.S.A., California, Sierra Nevada, type f $ in Am. Mus. 

 Nat. Hist., Yosemito Valley in Coll. ^Y. Barnes. Exji. 80 millim. 



