C.VTOCALA. 1]5 



Hah. Kashmir, Zalmiur Pass {MacArthur), \ c? ; Punjab 

 {Mrs. Manger), 1 5 type, Kulu, Siiltanpur (G. ¥o%mg), 2 $ . 

 Kvj). 88-90 millim. 



7231. Catocala, puerpera, 



Chrysis puerpera, Giorna, Cat. I^nt. Toi'ino, p. 142 (1791); Mill. Icpnes, i. 



p. 261, pi. 20. ff. 1-3 Stand. Cat. Ij:>p. pal. p. 247. 

 Nocttia mnasia, Esp. Sconiett. iy. pi. 194. ff. 1, 2 (1796). 

 Noctua pellcx, Hiibii. Eur. Sclimett., Noct. ff. 435. '6Q5 (1808). 

 Catocala orientalis, Sta^d- Stett. Ent. Zejt. 1877, p. 202. 

 Catocala pudica, Moore, 2nd Yapkand Mis-sion, Lep. p. 12 (1879); Hmpsn. 



Moths Ind. iv. p. 531. ' ^ ' 



Catocala rosea, Aust. Le Nat. 1884, p. 391. 

 Catocala pallida, A}ph. Eoin. Mem iii. p. 408 (1887). 

 Catocala genetrix, Schults, Ent. Zeit. Giibeii. xx. p. 95 (1906). 

 Catocala syriaca, Scluiltz, Ent. ^eit. xxii. p. 169 (1909). 

 Catocala tarhagata, Schultz, Ent. Zeit. xxii. p. 169 (1909). 

 Catocala romana, Schiiltz, Ent. Zeit. xxii. p. 169 (1909). 

 Catocala fticundia, Scluiltz, Ent. ^eit. xxii. p. 169 (1909). 

 Catocala brtmnescens, Schultz, Ent. Zeit. xxii. p. 169 (1909). 

 Catocala senescens, §chidtz, Ent. Zeit. xxii. p. 169 (1909). 

 Catocala demaciUata, Schultz, Ent. ^eit. x^ii. p. 169 (1909). 



Head and thorax pq,le grey tii|gec|. and irporated with brown 5 

 paljii whitish, tinged with brown ancj irrorated with black towards 

 tips ; frons irrorated witn black ; pectus white ; tarsi black 

 ringed with white ; abdomen pale grey tinged with rufons, tjje 

 ventral surface white. Fore wing pale grey slightly tinged with 

 red-brown and irrorq,ted with brown ; q,n oblique sijbbasal blackish 

 striga from costa ; antei^edial line double, the inner line indistinct, 

 slightly angled outwards bplow costa, then oblique, sinuous ; 

 reniform defined by fijscoijs and with some fuscous in centre, a dark 

 bar above it from costq, ; ^ spot faintly defined by brown below end 

 of cell ; postmediai line blackish, bent outwards below costa, then 

 obliquely incurved, angled outwards g.bove vein 5, then inwardly 

 oblique and minutely dentate ; a very faint dark sjightly W3,ved 

 subtermiual line, oblique fron; costa to below vein 6 ; a s.eries of 

 blackish points before termen ; cilia with a blacl^ish line thsrough 

 them. Hind wing scarlet, the hq,ir on inner margin white, a 

 narrow obliquely curved black medial band from costn to vein 1, 

 expanding into a spot beyond lo\fer angle of cell; ^ bl^ck terminal 

 band from apex to just below vein 2 c|,nd q, spot at yein 1 ; the 

 termen with a pale red patch at apex, then with s}ight spots in the 

 interspaces to vein 2 ; cilia white with slight dark marks at veins 

 6 and 2. Underside of fore wing Avhite, an Qbliqne fuscous brown 

 shade from costa before middle to the obliquely curved paedial black 

 band narrowing to inner margin and with its outer edge incurved 

 below vein 6, at submedian fold, a curved black subtermin3,l band, 

 the termen brownish white ; hind wing as above, but white wijih 

 the inner area suffused with scarlet. 



Ab. 1. genetrix. Hind v/iog with the terminal band not inter- 

 rupted at submedian fold. 



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