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NOOTUID^. 



Ilab. U.S.A., Wisconsin, llacine, Id", 1 ?, Kansas, Colorado. 

 Exp., <S 74, ? 80 millim. 



Larva. Bunker, Can. Ent. xv. p. 100. 



Pale drab or cream colour, a pale brown band between 5th and 

 6th somites; 7th somite wilh an elevated obscure brown dorsal 

 band ; ventral surface blackish brown ; head with dark brov\n line 

 in front. Pood-plant, Poplar. 



7222. Catocala repudiata. (Plate CXCVIII. fig. 4.) 



Catocala repudiata, Stand. Stett. Ent. Zeit. 1888, p. 55 ; id. Cat. Lep. 

 pal. p. 247, 



S . Head and thorax grey slightlj- tinged with brown and 

 mixed with black, the tegulas at middle and tips and the prothorax 

 Avith black lines; palpi white towards base; frons with lateral 

 black bars ; fore tibiae at extremity and the tarsi banded with 

 black; abdomen ochreous brown tinged with fuscous, the ventral 

 surface white tinged with ochreous brown. Fore wing pale purplish 

 grey fainth^ tinged in parts with brown and thickly irrorated wdth 

 fuscous black ; subbasal lino slight, black, waved, from costa to 

 submedian fold ; antemedial line black defined on inner side by 

 grey, expanding into a small spot at costa, oblique, sinuous ; reni- 

 form with its centre irrorated with fuscous and grey annulus 

 defined by black, its outer edge dentate ; an oblique blackish bar 

 from costa to the reniform, with an oblique grey shade before it 

 extending to the median nervure where it is continuous with the 

 obliquely curved grey mark defined by blackish below end of cell ; 

 postmedial line black defined on outer side by grey, bent outwards 

 below costa, then obliquely downcurved, 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 grey defined on outer side by blackish, dentate, oblique from 

 costa to below vein 6 ; a series of black striae before termen ; cilia 

 ochreous white with a black line through t,hem. Hind wing pale 

 scarlet ; an oblique black band from middle of costa to vein 1 

 where it is hooked, its outer edge indented at discal fold and below 

 vein 3 ; terminal area black, narrowing to tornus, its inner edge 

 angled inwards at veins 2 and 1, the termen white tinged with 

 red from apex to vein 2; cilia white, fuscous towards tornus 

 and with slight fuscous marks at base at the veins. Underside of 

 fore wing black, the termen grey, expanding towards apex, a white 

 patch at base, an oblique white medial patch from costa to sub- 

 median fold, and an obliquely curved white postmedial band 

 slightly angled outwards at submedian fold ; hind wing with the 

 basal costal area white, the postmedial area Avhite to vein 4 and 

 with white streaks on veins 3 and 2, the black bands as above, but 

 with more white on costal area. 



Hah. W. TuEKESTAy, Ferghana, Issyk-Kul, 1 cJ ; E. Tubkestan', 

 Hi, in Coll. Piingeler. Exjy. 70 millim. 



