102 NOCTUID^. 



7215. Catocala adultera. 



Catocala cuMtera, Men. Motsch. Et. v. p. 47 (1856) ; id. ibid. 18."8, pi. 2. 

 f. 3; id. Emin3. Mus. Petrop. iii. p. 167, pi. 17. f. 1; Stand. Cat. Lep. 

 pal. p. 248. 



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

 white at base, blackish towards tips ; frons with lateral black bars; 

 tegulse black at tips, the prothorax with narrow blackish band ; 

 pectus white ; legs white mixed with fuscous, the tarsi black 

 ringed with white ; abdomen reddish brown, the ventral surface 

 white. Pore wing gre}* -white thickly irrorated and suifused with 

 black-brown ; subbasal line black, from costa to submedian fold ; 

 antemedial line double, black, tho outer line strong, oblique, 

 sinuous; the medial area with a white patch in and below the cell; 

 reniform whitish strongly defined by black and with black lunule 

 in centre, an oblique dark bar above it from costa ; a rather 

 triangular white spot defined by black below end of cell ; post- 

 medial line indistinctly double, black filled in with white, the inner 

 line strong, bent outwards below costa, then obliquely incurved 

 and slightly waved below vein 6, oblique, dentate, more strongly 

 angled outwards above vein 2 and at submedian fold, and inwards 

 at veins 2 and 1, a whitish patch beyond it at middle ; subtermirial 

 line white defined on outer side by fuscous and slightly on inner 

 side, 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 brown, the base with slight brownish streaks ; 

 an obliquely curved black medial band from costa to vein 1, its 

 outer edge excurved at vein 5 ; terminal area black, narrowing 

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

 narrowly white towards apex ; cilia white. Underside of fore 

 wing white, a broad oblique black-brown band from costa before 

 middle to the obliquely curved black medial band with sinuous 

 edges at inner area, terminal area black, the termen towards apex 

 grey-white ; hind wing as above, but the basal costal area white 

 and the postmedial area white to vein 5. 



Hab. liussiA, St. Petersburg, Zeller Coll.; W. Siberia, Altai; 

 ^Mongolia, Changhai Mts. ; E. Sibekia, Amurland, 1 J , Ussuri. 

 Exp. 76 millim. 



7216. Catocala hermla. (Plate CXCVII. fig. 7.) 



Catocala hermia, H. £dw. ijull. Brooklyn Ent. Soc. ii. p. 93 (1880) ; 

 Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 343. 



Head and thorax fuscous black mixed with grey-white and some 

 pale ochreous brown, a whitish line behind the tegulse ; palpi 

 whitish at base ; pectus white ; legs white irrorated with brown, 

 the fore and mid tibiae near extremities and the tarsi banded with 

 black ; abdomen whitish brown, the ventral surface whiter. Fore 

 wing fuscous black irrorated with white, the postmedial area white 



