CATOCALA. 107 



black, the termen M'liite towards apex ; hiud wing as above, but the 

 basal costal area and the postmedial area to d!scal fold white. 



Ab. 1. sara. Fore wing with the basal area and the inner area 

 to tlie subterminal line suffused with black. 



Ab. 2. sierrce. Fore wing very thickly irrorated with black so 

 as almost to obscure the ground-colour and lines ; the subterminal 

 lino very distinct, creamy white defined on outer side by black, 

 dentate. 



Ilab. U.S.A., Colorado, Jamestown, California, San Diego, Sierra 

 Nevada, Lake Tahoe, Arizona, Thoenix (Kunze), 5 cj' , 5 $ , Hua- 

 chuca Mts., I (S • Exp. 78-88 millim. 



7221. Catocala mescei. (Plate CXCVIII. fig. 3.) 



Cafocala mesJcei, Grote, Can. Ent. v. p. 161 (1873); Suiitb, Cat. Noct. 



N. Am. p. 340. 

 Catocala rosalinda, H. Edw. Bull. Brooklyn Ent. Soc. iii. p. 55 (1880) ; 



Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 341. 



Head and thorax w^hite mixed with dark brown and blackish ; 

 paljn with more black towards extremity ; frons with lateral 

 blackish bars ; teguloe with black medial line ; pectus brownish 

 white ; legs white irrorated with black, the tarsi blackish ringed 

 with white; abdomen pale reddish brown. Fore wing grey-Avhite 

 irrorated with brown and blackish ; subbasal line blackish, curved, 

 from costa to submcdian fold ; antemedial line blackish, oblique, 

 waved ; reniform diffused blackish with white lunule in centre, its 

 outer edge dentate, an oblique blackish bar above it from costa and 

 a wdiitc patch before it in the cell ; a large w^hite spot defined by 

 blackish below end of cell, connected by a sinus with the post- 

 medial line at vein 2 ; postmedial line blackish, bent outwards 

 bslow costa, then oblique and slightly sinuous, acutely angled 

 outwards above vein 5, then oblique, dentate, and strongly 

 angled inwards at vein 1 ; subterminal line white defined on outer 

 side by blackish, dentate, somewhat oblique from costa to below 

 vein 6 ; a faint oblique dark shade from termen below apex ; a 

 series of blackish lunules just before termen. Hind wing scarlet ; 

 a black medial band, oblique from costa to submedian fold, then 

 bent inwards to near inner margin, its outer edge excurved at 

 vein 5 ; terminal area black, narrowing to tornus, its inner edge 

 angled inwards at veins 2 and 1 and excurved at submedian fold ; 

 the termen narrowly white towards apex with a slight red tinge 

 on inner side, then with series of slight spots in the interspaces to 

 vein 2 ; cilia white with slight dark marks at veins 6 to 2, 

 wholly dark towards tornus. Underside of fore wing white, an 

 oblique black-brown shade from costa before middle to the obliquely 

 curved black median band at inner area, the terminal area blackish, 

 the termen brownish grey towards apex ; hind wing as above but 

 the basal costal area white, the postmedial area white to vein 5. 



