112 uoctuid.t;. 



7227. Catocala deducta. 



Catocala deducta, Ev. Bull. Mosc. 1843, iii. p. 550, pi. 10. f. 3 ; Herr.- 

 Schaff. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 633; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 247. 



<S . Head and thorax grey-white mixed with pale brown and 

 black; palpi whitish towards base; pectus brownish white; legs 

 irrorated with black, the tarsi banded with black ; abdomen 

 whitish dorsally suffused with brown, ventrally tinged with red- 

 brown. Pore wiug creamy white tinged in parts with grey and 

 thickly irrorated with fuscous ; subbasal line represented by a 

 slight dark striga from costa; antemedial line double, olive-brown 

 filled in with whitish, the inner line indistinct, oblique, sinuous ; 

 reniform defined by olive-brown and with dark bar in centre, an 

 oblique dark bar above it from costa ; a pale spot defined by olive- 

 brown below end of cell ; a slight olive line excurved beyond the 

 cell and below vein 2 forming a band on the inner side of the 

 postmedial line, which is olive-brown defined on outer side by 

 whitish, bent outwards below costa, then dentate, angled outwards 

 above vein 5 and inwards at veins 2 and 1 : subterminal line 

 whitish defined on each side by brown, dentate, somewhat oblique 

 from costa to below vein 7 ; a series of dark striae before termen ; 

 cilia with a red-brown line through them. Hind wing pale 

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

 band, oblique to submedian 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 ; termen to vein 2 and cilia creamy white mixed 

 with blackish. Underside of fore wing white, an oblique diffused 

 black band from below costa before middle to the oblique black 

 medial band with sinuous edges at inner area, a curved black 

 subterminal band except towards tornus, the apical area brownish 

 white ; hind wing as above but the basal costal area to median 

 nervure and the postmedial area to vein 4 white, then with white 

 streaks on the veins. 



Ab. 1. Head, thorax, and fore wing white without any ochreous 

 brown tones and hardly any fuscous irroration. — Urals. 



Hob. Russia, Urals, 1 S ; W. Siberia, Altai, 1 J . Exp. 

 84 millim. 



7228. Catocala afghana. 



Catocala afgliana, Swiiih. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1885, p. 352, pi. 9. f. 8 ; Hmpsn. 

 Motbs ind. ii. p. 441. 



S . Head and thorax grey mixed with brown and fuscous ; 

 pectus white ; tarsi black ringed with white ; abdomen grey 

 tinged with reddish brown, the ventral surface white. Fore wiiig 

 grey tinged with ochreous brown and irrorated with fuscous ; sub- 

 basal line indistinct, blackish, excurved below costa and ending at 

 submedian fold ; antemedial line double, filled in with pale grey, 

 the outer line strong, black, oblique, waved ; reniform obscurely 



