CATOCALA. 119- 



Ab. 5. Fore wing wholly suffused witli black to the subterminal 

 line. — Arizona. 



Ab. 6. Fore wing without fuscous shading ; hind wing with tho 

 band slightly narrower. — Mexico. 



Hah. U.S.A., ? Xew York (DouhJedaij), 1 (^ typo, Kansas, 

 Douglas Co. (Snow), 3 (5,2 $ , Texas (Belfrar/e), 1 $ , Shovel Mts., 

 1 5 , Arizona, Phoenix {Kunze), 7 d' , 1 $, Huachuca Mts., 1 $ ; 

 Mexico, Darango (Becker), 1 d, Godman-Salvin Coll. Kvjy. 

 78-94 millim. 



7235. Catocala babaya^a. (Plate CXCIX. fig. 1.) 



Catocala bahayaga, Streck. Papilio, iv. p. 73 (1884) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. 

 N. Am. p. 346. 



Head and thorax red-brown ; palpi with some whitish at base ; 

 tegulse with slight blackish medial line and blackish tips ; patagia 

 with some blackish scales near upper edge; pectus brownish white; 

 tarsi black ringed with white ; abdomen pale rufous, the ventral 

 surface white tinged with rufuus. Fore wing red-brown mixed 

 with some grey and irrorated with black ; a subbasal blackish striga 

 from costa ; antemedial line double, brown, oblique, waved ; 

 reniform defined by blackish and with its centre defined by blackish, 

 its outer edge somewhat dentate, a dark bar above it from costa ; 

 a pale irregular spot incompletely defined by blackish below end of 

 cell; postmedial line blackish, bent outwards below costa, then 

 oblique and minutely dentate, angled outwards above vein 5, then 

 inwardly oblique and dentate, strongly incurved at vein 1; 

 subterminal line grey-white defined on outer side by blackish, 

 dentate, oblique from costa to below vein 7 ; a series of black striae 

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

 wing bright scarlet, the bar on inner margin brownish ; a black 

 medial band, obliquely excurved to submedian fold, then bent 

 inwards and ending at vein 1, its outer edge excurved at vein 5 ; 

 terminal area black, narrowing to tornus, its inner edge incurved 

 at veins 2 and 1 and excurved at submedian fold ; the termen 

 narrowly white towards apex tinged with red on inner side, then 

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

 slight fuscous line through them, wholly fuscous towards tornus. 

 Underside of fore wing white, the base tinged with rufous, an 

 oblique black-brown shade from costa before middle to the obliquely 

 curved black medial band at inner area, terminal area black, 

 its inner edge curved, slightly angled outwards at submedian fold, 

 the termen brownish white towards apex ; hind wing as above but 

 the basal costal area and the postmedial area to vein 5 white tinged 

 with rufous. 



Hob. U.S.A., Arizona, 1 c?, Grote ColL, Chiricahua Mts,, 1 ?. 

 Exp. 80-90 millim. 



Larva. Food-plant, Willow. 



