CATOCALA. 109 



*7223. Catocala Jessica. 



Cafocala Jessica, H. Edw. Pacific Coast Lep., Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci. No. 23 

 (Jan. 1877); Smilli, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 341. 



Head and thorax grey mixed with brown ; anteniiiTe blackish ; 

 pectus white ; abdomen greyish tinged with fulvous and with 

 I'ulvous segmental lines, the ventral surface white with fulvous 

 segmental lines. Fore wing dull grey tinged with brown and 

 thickly irrorated with fuscous ; subbasal line black, dentate, from 

 costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line blackish with some 

 whitish at middle^ oblique, sinuous, defined on outer side by 

 brown ; reniform defined by diffused blaekifih ; a fawn-coloured 

 spot defined by diffused brown below end of cell ; postmedial line 

 blackish, bent outwards below costa, then oblique, angled out- 

 wards above and below vein 5, then oblique and dentate, joining 

 the antemedial line at inner margin ; subterminal line whitish 

 defined on outer side by black, dentate, oblique from costa to vein 

 6 ; a series of small black lunules before terraen. Hind wing pale 

 scarlet ; the inner margin brownish ; medial band narrow, black, 

 almost straight, very slightly constricted at middle, ending at 

 vein 1 ; terminal band moderate, its inner edge angled inwards at 

 veins 2 and 1 ; the termen towards apex and spots between veins 

 6 and 2 white, tinged with red on inner side ; cilia white tinged 

 with red at base. Underside of fore wing white tinged with red 

 especially on the medial area, an oblique blackish shade from costa 

 before middle to the curved postmedial band on inner area, the 

 terminal area black leaving the apex pale ; hind wing with the 

 basal costal area and postmedial area white to discal fold. 



Hah. U.S.A., California, Kern Co., Havilah. Exp., ^ QQ, ? 80 

 millim. This species is unknown to me. 



7224. Catocala stretcM. (Plate CXCVIII. fig. 5.) 



Cafocala, stretcMi, Behr, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. iii. p. 24 (1370) ; Smith, 

 Oat. Noct. N. Am. p. 341. 



cJ . Head and thorax grey-white mixed with brown and some 

 fuscous ; pectus brownish white ; abdomen ver\' pale red-brown, the 

 ventral surface white. Fore wing grey-white thickly irrorated with 

 blackish brown ; subbasal line blackish, curved, from costa to 

 median nervure ; antemedial line double, blackish filled in with 

 white at inner margin, oblique, sinuous ; reniform large, defined b)^ 

 blat-kish and with black-brown centre, an oblique blackish bar above 

 it from costa ; an oblique pale mark obscurely defined by dark 

 brown below end of cell, with a blackish line from it to inner 

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

 oblique, acutely angled outwards below vein 5, then inwardly 

 oblique, dentate, strongly angled inwards at vein 1, and defined 

 on outer side by white towards inner margin; subterminal line 

 whitish slightly defined on outer side by blackish, dentate, oblique 



