CATOCALA. 121 



. . Catocala.diqdicata, Worthington, Papilio, iii. p. 40 (1883). 

 Catocala conspicita, Wortliington, Papilio, iii. p. 40 (1883). 

 Catocala umbrosa, Worthington, PapiliO) iii. p. 41 (1883). 

 Catocala decorata, Worthington, Papilio, iii. p. 41 (1883). 

 Catocala oscnlata, Hulst, Bull. Brookljn Ent. SoC; vii. p. 43 (1884). 



Head and thorax red-brown mixed with whitish ; palpi dark 

 brown and white ; the tcgulae with blackish medial line, the 

 patagia irrorated with black ; pectus brownish white ; legs white 

 irrorated with black, the tarsi black ringed with wliite ; abdomen 

 red-brown, the ventral surface brownish white. Fore wing red- 

 brown mixed with white and blackish ; subbasal line black, sinuous, 

 from costa to submedian fold, where there is a black mark beyond 

 it and a streak to the antemedial line, which is double, blackish, 

 waved and almost erect ; renirorm with some white in centre 

 defined by red-brown, and white annulus defined by blackish, its 

 outer edge slightly dentate, an oblique dark bar above it from costa ; 

 a small dark spot below end of cell with a line from it bent 

 outwards, then erect; postmedial line black slightly defined on 

 outer side by white, bent outwards below costa, then oblique, 

 acutely angled outwards above and below vein 5, then inwardly 

 oblique, dentate, and angled inwards at vein 1 ; subtermiual line 

 whitish defined on outer side by fuscous, dentate, oblique from costa 

 to below vein 6 ; an oblique dark shade from termen below apex ; 

 a series of black striae before termen with minute white spots on 

 their outer side. Hind wing orange-red, the inner area clothed 

 with brown hair ; a black medial band, oblique to submedian fold, 

 then bent inwards to inner margin, expanding towards costa and 

 into a patch beyond lower angle of cell ; terminal area black, very 

 broadly towards costa and narrowing to tornus, its inner edge 

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

 the termen narrowly white tinged with orange towards apex, then 

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

 chequered with fuscous between veins 6 and 2, then almost wholly 

 fuscous. Underside of fore wiug with the base whitish, an oblique 

 black-brown shade from costa before middle to vein 1, followed by 

 an orange band before the obliquely curved medial black band 

 narrowing to inner margin and wdth its outer edge excurved at 

 vein 5, then a yellowish white band, a curved black subterminal 

 band, the termen brownish grey ; hind wing as above but the basal 

 costal area white tinged with fulvous yellow, the postmedial area 

 to discal fold white slightly tinged with yellow. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing with the reniform filled in with white. 



Ab. 2. uxor. Fore wing browner and with less white. 



Ab. 3, zoe. Hiad "wing, paler orange-yellow. — Washington, 

 California. 



Hah. Canada; IJ.S.A., throughout, New York {Grote, Huht), 

 6 c? , 1 $ , Ohio, Columbus, 1 $ , Washington, 1 5 , California, 2 cJ , 

 Mohave Distr., 1 $ , Arizona : ? Jamaica. Ex_p, 80-90 millim. 



