104: KOCIUID^. 



margin fuscous brown ; postmcdial band black, oblique from costa 

 to vein 4 and ending at submedian fold, its outer edge indented at 

 discal fold; terminal area black, narrowing to tornus, its inner 

 edge sinuous, some wbite at apex ; cilia wbite with a fuscous line 

 through them. Underside of fore wing black, the apes tinged with 

 grey, a white patch at base, an obhque white medial patch from 

 subcostal ncrvure to vein 2, its inner edge dentate, an obliquely- 

 curved white postmedial band slightly angled outwards in sub- 

 median fold ; hind wing crimson-red, the costal area white at base, 

 the postmedial area white to vein 5, then with white streaks on 

 the veins, the postmedial and terminal bands as above, but the 

 former continued to inner margin as a narrow line. 



Hab. U.S.A., Colorado (Saow), 1 ? . E.vj). 78 millim. 



7218. Catocalabriseis. (Plate CXCVII. %. 9.) 



Catocala parta, Wlk. xiii. 1193 (nee Guen ). 



Catocala briseis, W. H. Edw. Proc. Ent. Soc. Pliil. ii. p. 508 (1864); 



Streck. Lep. Ehop. & Het. p. 20, pi. 3. f. 7 ; Smith, Cat. Noet. N. Am. 



p. 342. 

 Catocala alhlda, Beutenm. Bull. Am. Mus. sxiii. p. 938 (1907). 



Head and thorax fnscous black mixed with some brown and 

 grey-w^hite ; tegulse with faint dark medial line ; patagia with 

 black lines near edges ; pectus and legs with more white, the tarsi 

 black ringed with white ; abdomen fuscous brown, the ventral 

 surface pale rufous with the terminal segments grey-white. Fore 

 wing fuscous black mixed with grey-white, the interspaces of 

 postmedial area rufous except at costa and inner margin ; subbasal 

 line indistinct, black, excurved below costa and ending at snbmedian 

 fold; antemedial line black defined on inner side by grey, oblique, 

 dentate ; reniform very faintly defined by black and with some 

 brownish white in centTe, a faint oblique blackish bar above it 

 from costa and an oblique whitish spot before it in the cell ; a 

 brownish white spot defined by black below end of cell ; postmedial 

 line black defined on inner side by whitish and on outer side at 

 costa, bent outwards below costa, then obliquely downcnrved, 

 slightly angled outwards above and below vein 5, then waved and- 

 strongiy angled inwards at vein 1 ; subterminal line white defined 

 on outer side by blackish, dentate, oblique from costa to below 

 vein 6 ; a series of small blackish lunules before termen ; cilia 

 Avhitish and brown with a dark line through them. Hind wing 

 deep scarlet, the hair on inner margin brown, some brownish hair 

 on basal inner area ; 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 apex narrowly white with a faint reddish tinge on its inner 

 edge ; cilia white with a dark line near base from vein 6 to 2, then 

 dark at base and wholly dark towards tornus. Underside of fore 

 wing white, an oblique black band from costa before middle to the 

 oblique black medial band with sinuous edges at vein 1, terminal 



