lis NocxuiDj];. 



7234. Catocala junctiira. (Plate CXCVIII. fig. 10.) 



Catocala junctura, Wlk. xiii. 1196 (1857) ; Truce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Ilet. 



ii. p. 511, pi. 97. f. 1 ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 345. 

 Catocala walshii, W. H. Edw. Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. ii. p. 509 (1864). 

 Catocala arizoncs, Grote, Can. Ent. v. p. 163 (1873). 

 Catocala texanw, French, Can. Enr,. xsxiv. p. 98 (1902) ; Dyar, Cat. Lep. 



N. Am. p. 226. 



Head and thorax grey mixed with black and some browii ; palpi 

 Avith some white at base ; frous tvith lateral black bars ; tegulaj 

 ■svith black medial line, the prothorax -with blackish line ; pectus 

 brownish grey ; tarsi black ringed with white, abdomen grey tinged 

 with reddish btownj the vehtral surface whitish. Fote Aving grey 

 slightly tinged with i"ed-brown and thickly irroratcd Avith black ; 

 subbflsal line black, ekcurved below cost a and ending at submediau 

 fold ; Untemedial line double-, black filled in with Avhite at inner 

 margin, oblique, sinuous; reniform Obscurely defined by black, 

 snfi'used with blackish and As'ith black sufltision beyond it, a black 

 bar above it from costa ; a reddish-brown spot defined by blackish 

 bi9low fend of cell, a sinuotxs black line from it to inner margin ; 

 postmedial line blackish slightly defined on outer side by grey, bent 

 outwards beloAV costa, then obliquely incurved, angled outwards 

 above A'ein 5, then inwardly oblique and dentate ; subterminal line 

 grey-white dfefined on e&ch side by fuscous, dentate, somewhat 

 obliqtie from costa to below vfeih 7 ; a series of black striae before 

 terlnen ; cilia with a slight dark line through them, Avhitish 

 at tips. Hind Aving scarlet, the hair on ihner margin brownish ; 

 a black medial band, obliquely cul-ved to submedian fold, then bent 

 inwards and ending ncflr inner miargin, its outer edge slightly 

 excurved at vein 5 ; tertninal area black-, nartowing to tornus, 

 its iunel* edge angled inwards at veins 2 and 1 and excurved 

 at stibmedian fold ; teirmen narrowly white towards apex and 

 slightly tiiiged With red on inner side, then Avith slight white spots 

 in the interspaces to vein 2 ; cilia white with some fuscous at base, 

 AA^h'oUy fuscous tOAvards tornus. Undetside of fore wing Avhite, the 

 base tinged with brown, an obliqUe blackish shade from costa 

 beforfe middle to the obliqUfe blafck Uiedial band with its outer edge 

 excUrVed at vein 5 at inheratea, terminal area black, its inner edge 

 Curved and sligbtly waved, the Costa and termen towards apex 

 grey-Avhite ; hind wing as above but the basal costal area pale 

 broAvnish, the postmedial area white to vein 6, the medial band not 

 fexteuding below veiU 1. 



Ab. 1. vaMii. Fore wing without the dark sbadc from costa to 

 lowfer angle of cell. — S. Illinois, Kansas, Texas. 



Ab. 2. ari:^nce. Fore Aving slightly darker and Avith less brown, 

 the lines somewhat more distinct. — Arizona. 



Ab. 3. Fore wing more variegated Avith AVhite especially on 

 costal half of inner area and on postmedial and termihal areas 

 eii:cept towai'ds inner margin.- — Arizoha. 



Ab. 4. Fore "'^ring With the basal area and the inner area to 

 Bubtetminal lilie siififused Avith fuscous black.^=— Arizona. 



