1 10 NOCTUID^Ii;. 



from costa to bolow vein 6 ; a series of blackish striae just before 

 tormen. Hind wiug pale scarlet, the hair on inner margin 

 brownish white ; a narrow Vjlack medial band, oblique to sub- 

 median fold, then bent inwards and ending at vein 1, its edges 

 sinuous; terminal area black, narrowing to tornus, its inner edge 

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

 the termen with a small white patch at apex faintly tinged with 

 red on inner side, then a series of small spots in the interspaces 

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

 fuscous towards tornus. Underside of fore wing white, an obli(iae 

 blackish band from costa before middle to the obliquely curved 

 blackish medial band with sinuous edges at vein 1, terminal area 

 black, the apex whitish ; hind wing as above, but the basal costal 

 area to discal fold and the post medial area to vein 5, white. 



Hah. U.S.A., Colorado, Glenwood Springs, 1 6 , California, Sierra 

 Nevada, 1 d' . Mjcp. 86-88 millim. 



7225. Catocala hippolyta. (Plate CXCVIII. fig. 6.) 



Caiocala hippoli/ia, Streck. Lep. Rhop. & Ilet. p. 99 (1874); H. Edvv. 

 Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci. vi. p. 211 (1875) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 3-11. 



c?. Head and thorax white mixed with brown; pectus white; 

 fore tibiae at extremities and the tarsi banded with black ; abdomen 

 white tinged with ochreous brown, the ventral svirface white with 

 slight ochreous rings towards extremities. Fore wing bluish white 

 thickly irrorated with dark brown ; subbasal line blackish, excurved 

 below costa and ending at submedian fold; antemedial line fuscous 

 defined on inner side by white, forming a diffused fuscous spot at 

 costa, oblique, sinuous ; reniform fuscous with whitish lunule in 

 centre and four small fuscous spots on its outer edge, a dark bar 

 above it from costa ; an oblique elliptical white spot irrorated with 

 brown and defined by blackish below end of cell; postmedial line 

 black, bent outwards below costa, then somcAvhat oblique and 

 slightly sinuous to above vein 5, then dentate and strongly angled 

 inwards at vein 1 ; subterminal line bluish white slinhtlj- defined 

 on outer side by fuscous, strongly dentate and somewhat oblique 

 from costa to below vein 6 ; a series of blackish points before 

 termen. Hind wing rather pale scarlet, the hair on inner margin 

 brownish, a black medial band oblique from costa to submedian 

 fold, then slightly curved inwards and ending at vein 1, narrow 

 especially below vein 2, its outer edge indented at discal fold; 

 the terminal area black narrowing to tornus, its inner edge incurved 

 at veins 2 and 1 ; the termen with slight scarlet marks in the inter- 

 spaces from apex to vein 2, and some white at apex ; cilia white 

 with some blackish at the veins. Underside of fore wing blackish, 

 the costa and termen white irrorated with brown, the latter 

 expanding towards apex, a white patch at base, an oblique white 

 medial patch from below costa to submedian fold, postmedial band 



