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band narrowing to near tornus where it terminates, its inner edge 

 slightlj' waved and angled inwards at veins 2 and 1 ; the termen 

 white, tinged with red towards apex and with small spots in the 

 interspaces between veins 6 and 2; cilia white intersected with 

 blackish at veins 6 to 2 and blackish towards tornus. Underside 

 of fore wing white with obliqne black shade from costa before 

 middle to submedian fold where it joins the oblique black post- 

 medial band, its outer edge excurred at vein 5, a broad curved 

 black terminal band leaving the apical area white with some black 

 points on termen ■; hind wing with the costal area white. 



Hah. U.S.A.., Utah, Vineyard (Sjndding), in Coll. W. Barnes, 

 Colorado. Exj). 76 millim. 



*7233. Catocala lesbia. 



CatocaU lesbia, Christ. St.ett. Ent. Zeit. 1887, p. 16.t ; id. Eom. Mem. v. 

 p. 44, pi. 3. ff. 2, a, b ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 247. 



2 . Head and thorax bright rufous mixed with reddish gre}' ; a 

 dark bar between antennae; palpi grey irrorated with fuscous; 

 pectus and legs grey irrorated with fuscous, the t:irsi handed with 

 black, abdomen fulvous yellow, the ventral surface white with 

 black segmental lines. Fore wing reddish gi'ey thickly irrorated 

 and in parts suffused with bright rufous ; subbasal line rufous, 

 curved, with spot at costa, then slight and ending at submedian 

 fold ; antemedial line double, rufous, oblique, sinuous, the outer 

 line dilated at costa ; reniform defined by rufous and with rufous 

 bar in centre; medial line rufous, oblique to the reniform and 

 sinuous below the cell; postmedial line rufous defined on outer side 

 by gieyish, bent outwards below costa, oblique to vein 5, then in- 

 wardly oblique and waved ; postmedial area suffused with rufous ; 

 subterminal line grey defined on outer side by brown, waved, oblique 

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

 slight pale streaks before and beyond them in the interspaces; cilia 

 whitish at tips. Hind wing flesh-red with a yellow tinge ; medial 

 band black, oblique to submedian fold, then bent inwards and 

 ending at vein 1, somewhat constricted at discal fold and its outer 

 edge angled outwards at vein 1 ; a black subterminal band from 

 costa to vein 2 connected by a slight line with a spot at vein 1, the 

 inner edge of the band curved and sinuous, its outer edge angled 

 outwards below costa and excurved to termen at veins 6 and 2; 

 cilia whitish with some fuscous at base at veins 6 and 2. Under- 

 side pale yellow ; fore wing with oblique blackish antemedial 

 shade from costa to submedian fold, oblique black medial band with 

 sinuous edges and curved subterminal band ; hind wing with the 

 inner area orange-yellow, the medial band as above, the sub- 

 terminal band narrower and more strongly connected with the spot 

 at vein 1. 



IJab. Palestine, Jordan Valley, in Coll. Piingeler ; W. Ttjekestan, 

 Turcomania. Exp. 90 millim. 



