120 NocTuinjE. 



7236. Catocala remissa. (Plate CXCIX! fig. 3.) 



Catocala remissa, Stand. Iris, iv. p. 328, pi. 4. f. 10 (1891) ; id. Cat. Lep. 

 pal. p. 247. 



Head and thorax pale red-brown tinged with grey ; palpi whitish 

 iowai'ds base; frons with lateral blackish bars; tegulse with slight 

 dark lino at tips, the prothorax with slight dark line ; pectus creamy 

 white; legs pale brownish, the tarsi banded-with fuscous, abdomen 

 pale reddish brown, the ventral surface brownish white. Eore 

 wing pale red-brown suffused with grey; subbasal line blackish, 

 sinuous from costa to submedian fold in which there is a very 

 slight dark streak extending to the antemedial line, which is double, 

 brown, dentate towards costa, then oblique, waved and angled 

 inwards on vein 1 ; reniform defined by brown and with its centre 

 defined by brown, it3 outer edge somewhat dentate and its inner 

 edge produced to a point on subcostal nervure, an oblique dark 

 shade above it from costa ; a spot defined by blackish below end of 

 cell, connected by a sinus with tlie postmedial line at vein 2; 

 pos-tmedial line blackish defined on outer side by grey, bent 

 outwards below costa, then obliquely downcurved, acutely angled 

 outwards above and below vein 5, then oblique, miilutely dentate, 

 strongly angled outwards at submedian fold and inwards on vein 1 ; 

 subterminal line grej^ defined on outer side by brown and with 

 brown suffusion before it, dentate, oblique from costa to below vein 

 6 ; a slight oblique dark shade from termen below apex ; the veins 

 of terminal area finely streaked with black ; a series of blackish 

 striae before termen. Hind wing pale scarlet ; a narrow black 

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

 ending at vein 1, its outer edge angled outwards below costa and 

 at vein 5 ; terminal ar6a black, narrowing to tornus, its inner edgo 

 angled inwards at veins 2 and 1 and exfcnrved at submedian fold ; 

 the termen narrowly ochreous white towards apex, then with series 

 of small spots in the interspaces to vein 2 ; cilia ochreous white 

 with slight dark marks at extremities of veins G and 2. Underside 

 of fore wing brownish white, a diflfused obliqlie black band from 

 below costa before middle to the oblique black medial band with 

 sinuous edges at inner margin ; a curved black subterminal band ; 

 hind wing as above, but the basal costal area to disCal fold and 

 the postmedial area to vein 5 brownish white. 



Hab. W. Turkestan, Turcomaiiia, Issyk-Kul, 1 (5,1$; 

 E. TuKKESTAN-, Kashgar. Ex^)., ^ 72, $ 80 millim. 



7237. Catocala ilia. (Plate CXCIX. fig. 5.) 



FhaI(S7ia ilia, Oram. Pap. Exot. i. p. 53, pi. 33. ff. B, (1779); Smith, 



Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 339. 

 Catocala uxor, Giien. Noct. iii. p. 92 (1852). 

 Catocala zoe, Eehr, Trans. Am. Eiit. Soc. iii. p. 24 (1870). 

 Cutocala obsoleta, VYortbington, Papilio, iii. p. 40 (1883). 



