116 N0CTIJIDJ5. 



Ab. 2. romcina. Hind wing yellowish red. — Eoman Campagna. 



Ab. 3. orientalis. Smaller ; fore wing suffused with fuscous. — 

 S. Eussia, W. Siberia. 



Ab. 4. si/riaca. Larger ; fore wing rather dark. — Beirut. 



Ab. 5. pudica. Larger and paler ; fore wing with an ochreous 

 brown tinge ; hind wing yclluwish red. — W. and E. Turkestan ; 

 Ladak. 



Ab. 6. rosea. Fore wing grey with a pinkish tinge. — Algeria. 



Hah. S. France, Pyrenees; Attstkia, Mutzell ColL, Tirol; 

 Hungary, D'Emmioh Coll.; Switzerland, Valais, Frey Coll.; 

 Spain, Andalusia, Leech Coll. ; Italy, Lago di Garda {A. H. Jones), 

 Home ; Algkuia ; Dalmatia ; S. Eussia, D'Emniich Coll. ; Armenia ; 

 Asia Minor, Pontus, Bithyniu ; Syria, Beirut, 1 c? , 1 $ , Zeller 

 Coll.; Persia, Urumiah (Daltry), 1 c? ; W. Turkestan, Merv 

 (Hauser), 1 S , Turcomania, Sarawschan, Ferghana, Tarbagatai 

 Mis., Issyk-Kul; W. Siberia, Altai; E. Turkestan, Hi, 5 J , 1 $ , 

 Korla, Lob-noor ; Kashmfr, Ladak, Paskyam {Shaw)^ 1 c? type 

 jpuflica. Exp. 56-74 millim. 



Larva. Kirby, Butt. & Motbs Eur. p. 277; Hffm. Raup. p. 149, pi. 37. 

 f. 12. 



Yellowish mottled with red-brown, the ventral surface yellowish ; 

 warts small ; 8th and 11th somites without prominences ; head 

 red-brown mottled with yellow. Food-plants : SalLv helix and 

 Populus. 6-7. 



*7232. Catocala aspasia. (Plate CXCVIII. fig. 9.) 



Calocala asjMsia, Streck. Lep. Rhop & Het. p. 91 (1874) ; Smith, Cab. 

 Noct. N. Am. p. 34o, 



(5 . Head and thorax rufous mixed with greyish and black ; 

 antennae black ; pectus whitish ; legs reddish brown mixed with 

 some black, the tarsi V.anded black and whit-ish ; abdomen grey 

 tinged with reddish ochreous, the ventral surface white tinged with 

 reddish. Fore wing bluish grey mixed with ])ale rufous and 

 thickly irrorated with black ; a curved subbasal black striga from 

 costa; anteraedial line blackish defined on inner side by rufous, 

 obli(|ue, sinuous, somewh.at dilated at costa ; reniform obscurely 

 defined by black and with some black in upper and lower parts of 

 centre, its outer edge somewhat dentate, some diffused black above 

 it on costa ; a pale rufous spot very indistinctly defined by black 

 below end of cell ; postmedial line indistinct, blackish, bent 

 outwards below costa, then obliquely downcurved to below vein 6, 

 then inwardly oblique and waved, incurved at vein 1 ; subterminal 

 line diffused, whitish tinged with rufous and defined on each side 

 by grey, oblique to vein 7, then waved; a series of black striae 

 before termen ; cilia with a slight waved dark line through them. 

 Hind wing pale scarlet ; a rather narrow black medial band, oblique 

 to below vein 2, then bent inuards and ending above vein 1, its 

 outer edge slightly angled outwards at vein 6; a black terminal 



