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area black, the termen grey towards apex ; hind wing as above, 

 but the basal costal area brownish white, a black discoidal lunule 

 conjoined above to the medial band and with white spot bej-ond it, 

 the medial band reaching inner margin, the narrow postmedial 

 area white to vein 4. 



Ab. 1. Pore wing with a patch before the angle of poslmedial 

 line and the postmedial area except at costa and inner margin 

 nearly pure white. 



Ab. 2. alhida. Head and thcrax whitish grey ; fore wing bluish 

 grey, the costal area and the area before and beyond the reniform 

 whitish, the reniform with white and black annulus, the spot 

 below it whitish defined by black, the subterminal line bluish 

 white. 



Hah. Canada {Norman), 1 S , Hudson's Bay, St. Martin's Falls 

 (Barnston), 1 $, Ottawa (FleicJier), 1 (J, Manitoba, CarlAvriglit 

 (Heath), 2 $ ; U.S.A., Northern, Eastern, and Middle States, New 

 York {Doubledaij), 1 cT , Buffalo (Grote), 1 d , Evans Center (Grote), 

 1 6,1 ? . Exi>- 68-74 millim. 



7219. Catocala beaniana. (Plate CXCVII. fig. 10.) 



Catocala beaniana, Grote, Can. Ent. x. p. 195 (1878); id. 111. Essay, p. 67, 

 pi. iv. f. 42; Sinitli, Cat. Noct. TST. Am. p. 341. 



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

 the tegulse with black lines at middle and near tips, the patagia 

 wifch black streaks near edges ; palpi whitish at base, the 2nd 

 joint towards extremity and sides of frons blackish ; pectus and 

 legs brownish white, the latter irrorated with brown, the ex- 

 tremities of fore tibiae and the tarsi banded with black ; abdomen 

 ochreous brown, the ventral surface brownish white. Fore wing 

 bluish grey irrorated and in parts suffused with fuscous brown ; 

 subbasal line black, waved, from costa to submedian fold ; ante- 

 medial line double, blackish, oblique, waved, angled inwards on 

 vein 1 ; a triangular whitish mark in cell before the reniform 

 which is defined by blackish and with blackish striga in centre, 

 a diffused dark mark above it on costa ; a whitish spot defined by 

 blackish below end of cell, connected with the postmedial line ; 

 an indistinct waved line beyond the cell from below costa to vein 

 3 ; postmedial line blackish, bent outwards below costa, then 

 oblique and minutely dentate, acutely angled outwards above and 

 below vein 5, then dentate, at vein 2 forming the sinus below end 

 of cell and strongly angled inwards at vein 1 ; subterminal line 

 whitish defined on outer side by blackish, stj-ongly dentate, some- 

 what oblique from costa to below vein 6 ; a slight oblique dark 

 shade from termen below apex to the postmedial line ; a series of 

 black striae before termen ; a Avaved black terminal line ; cilia 

 brownish white with a dark line through, them. Hind wing rather 

 pale scarlet, the hair on inner margin brownish ; medial black band 

 oblique from middle of costa to submedian fold, then slightly 



