114 NOCTTTIDiE. 



its edges sinuous; torminal area black, narrowing to tornus, its 

 inner edge angled inwards at veins 2 and 1 and excurved at 

 snbmedian fold ; the termen with a white patch at apex, then a 

 series of small spots in the interspaces to vein 2 ; cilia white, 

 chequered with fuscous between veins 6 and 2, fuscous towards 

 tornus. Underside of fore wing white, an obli(jue black-brown 

 shade from costa before middle, to the oblique black medial band 

 at submedian fold, the outer edge of the band excurved at vein 5, 

 the terminal area black, its inner edge sinuous towards tornus, 

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

 area and the postmedial area to discal fold white. 



Hah. Kashmir, Zalmiur Pass {MacArthur), 1 5 ; Punjab, Kulu, 

 Sultanpur {G. Young), 1 S , Dharmsala {HocMng), 4 c? , 2 2 type, 

 Simla, 1 5, Kasauli, 1 J, Abbotabad {Yerbury), 1 S ; ?Sikhim, 

 1 S . F.xp. 90-96 millim. 



7230. Catocala prolifica. 



Catoca-a prolifica, Wlk. xiii. 1211 (1857); Butl. 111. Ilet. B.M. vi. p. 38, 

 pL 110. f. 9; Hinpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 441, 



Head and thorax grey mixed with brown and fuscous ; palpi at 

 base and pectus brownish white ; tarsi blackis-h ringed with white : 

 abdomen grey tinged with red-brown, the ventral surface brownish 

 white. Fore wing grey irrorated and mostly suffused with fuscous 

 black, the basal half of medial area greyer ; antemedial line double 

 filled in with grey and with whitish at inner margin, oblique, 

 sinuous ; reniform defined by blackish and with black lunule in 

 centre, some whitish before it in the cell ; a small whitish spot 

 defined by blackish below end of cell ; a grey patch below costa 

 before the postmedial line, which is very indistinct and slightly 

 defined on outer side by grey, bent outwards below costa, then 

 obliquely incurved to above vein 5, then inwardly oblique and 

 waved ; subterminal line grey, defined on outer side by blackish, 

 dentate, oblique from costa to below vein 6 ; a series of minute 

 blackish spots before termen. Hind wing scarlet, the hair on inner 

 margin brownish and some brownish hair in base of submedian 

 fold; a black median band, oblique to submedian fold, then bent 

 inwards to just above inner margin, its outer edge excurved below 

 costa and at vein 5 ; terminal area black, narrowing to tornus, its 

 inner edge sinuous, angled inwards at vein 2 and excurved at 

 submedian fold ; the termen with series of small white spots in the 

 interspaces from apex to vein 2 ; cilia white, chequered with brown 

 between veins 6 and 2, brown at base towards tornus. Underside 

 of fore wing white, an oblique brown shade from costa before 

 middle to vein 1, an oblique black medial band, its outer edge 

 excurved at vein 5, tha terminal area black, its inner edge curved 

 and slightly waved, some whitish at apex ; hind wing as above, 

 but the basal costal area and the postmedial area to discal fold 

 white. 



