106 NOCTUID.E. 



incurved and ending at vein 1, its outer edge slightly indented at 

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

 inner edge curved inwards at veins 2 and 1 ; the termen with 

 slight scarlet spots in the interspaces from apex to vein 2 and 

 some white at apex ; cilia white with some black-brown at base. 

 Underside of fore wing black, a Avhite patch at base, an oblique 

 medial white patch from below eosta to vein 2, an obliquely curved 

 white postmedial line slightly angled outwards at submedian fold, 

 some whitish on apical part of termen ; hind wing with the basal 

 costal area white, the postmedial area white to vein 5, then with 

 white streaks on the veiiis, the medial and terminal bands as above. 

 Hah. U.S.A., Illinois, 1 $ type. Exjy. 80 millim. 



7220. Catocala augusta. (Plate CXCVIIT. fig. 2.) 



Cctocala auqusta, H. Edw. Proc. Calif. Ac. Sci. vi. p. 184 (1875); Smith, 



Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 341. 

 Catocala portia, H. Edw. Bull. Brooklyn Ent.. Soc. ii. p. 94 (1880). 

 Catocala sara, French, Can. Ent. xv. p. 163 (1883); Smith, Cat. Noct. 



N. Ain. p. 346. 

 Catocala sio-rce, Beutenm. Bull. Am. Mus. ix. p. 212 (1897). 



Head and thorax grey-white mixed with reddish brown and 

 black ; frons with lateral black bars ; tegulaj with black lines near 

 base and at middle, the prothorax with blackish bar, the patagia 

 Avith black lines near edges ; pectus and legs brownish white, the 

 latter irrorated with black ; abdomen pale red-brown, the ventral 

 surface white tinged with red- brown. Fore wing grey-white 

 tinged in parts with brown and irrorated with black ; subbasal 

 line blackish, sinuous, from costa to vein 1 ; antemedial line black, 

 oblique, sinuous ; reniform large, tinged with red-brown and 

 incompletely defined by blackish, its outer edge somewhat dentate; 

 an obliijue black striga above it from costa ; a whitisli spot below 

 end of cell faintly defined by blackish ; postmedial line black, bent 

 outwards below costa, then oblique, sinuous, acutely angled out- 

 wards above vein 5, then oblique, dentate, and strongly angled 

 inwards at veins 2 and 1 ; subterminal line very indistinct, 

 whitish, faintly defined on outer side by fuscous and on inner side 

 at costa; a series of blackish points just before termen. Hind 

 wing scarlet, the hair on inner margin brownish white; a black 

 medial band, oblique to submedian fold, then curved inwards and 

 ending at vein 1, its outer edge excurved at vein 5 ; terminal area 

 black, narrowing to tornus, its inner edge incurved at veins 2 and 1 

 and excurved at submedian fold ; the termen with a small white 

 patch at apex slightly tinged with reddish on inner side, then a 

 series of small spots in the interspaces to vein 2 ; cilia white 

 chequered with black between veins G and 2, wholly blackish 

 towards toruus. Underside of fore wing white, an oblique black- 

 brown shade from costa before middle to vein 1, an obliquely 

 curved medial black band with sinuous edges, the terminal area 



