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Larva. Koebele, Bi?!!. Brooldyn Ent. Soe. iy. p. 1'2 ; Caulfield, Can. Ent. 

 Vu. p. 208 ; Frencl), Can, Ent. xvi. p. 12, 



Greenish grey to dirt} brown with numerous striations and lines, 

 sometimes pinkish in front ; piliferoiis warts prominent ; 8th somite 

 without prominence ; 11th somite with the prominences variable; 

 head biiobed, greenish grey to brown. rood-pk\nt, Oak, 



7238. Catocala lara. 



Caioccda lara, Breni. Lep. Ost-Sib. p, 59, pi. 4. f. 13 (18G4); Stand. Cat. 

 Lep. pal. p. 247. 



Head and thorax brown mixed with grey, the tegulao pale red- 

 brown and grey ; palpi whitish at base ; pectus brownish white ; 

 tarsi black ringed with white ; abdomen red-brown tinged with 

 grey, the ventral surface ochreous wliite. Fore wing dark brown 

 mixed with grey ; a slight oblique subbasal black strigafrom costa ; 

 antemedial line slightly defined on inner side by whitish, strong, 

 black, very oblique and sinuous from eosta to submedian fold where 

 it is conjoined by a black streak to the postmedial line, then slight 

 and angled inwards at vein 1, a whitish shade beyond it from eosta 

 to below the cell, followed by a dark shade to beyond the cell ; 

 reniforra brown with whitish annnlus ; a whitish spot defined by 

 blackish below end of cell ; postmedial line black slightly defined on 

 outer side by whitish, bent outwards below costa, then oblique and 

 with some pale suffusion before it, acutely angled outwards above and 

 below^ vein 5, then incurved, waved, strongly excurved at submedian 

 fold and angled inwards at vein 1 ; subterminal line indistinct, 

 whitish slightly defined on outer side by brown, obliquely incurved 

 from costa to below vein 7, then waved and slightly angled 

 outwards at submedian fold ; the veins of terminal area streaked 

 with blackish ; a series of black strise faintly defined on outer side 

 by whitish and a faint oblique dark shade from termen below apex. 

 Hind wing fuscous brown, the basal and inner areas rather paler 

 brown ; a curved yellowish white postmedial band from costa to 

 vein 1 with slight brown streaks on the veins ; the termen yellowish 

 white towards apex ; cilia yellowish white, chequered with brown 

 between veins 6 and 2, brown towards tornus. Underside of fore 

 wing yellowish white, an oblique brown shade from costa before 

 middle to vein 1, an oblique black medial band, narrowing to inner 

 margin, terminal area black shading to grey at termen, its inner 

 edge curved ; hind wing yellowish white, a rather narrow curved 

 black-brown medial band from costa to vein 1 , a broad curved 

 black-brown subterminal band extending to termen between veins 

 6 and 5. 



Hah. E. SiBEKiA, Amurland {Diekmann), 1 d" , 1 5 ; Japan, Yezo 

 {Fryer), 2 d" , 1 $ , Tokio (Fenton), 1 $ ; Corea • N. China, Woi- 

 hai-Wei (de la Garde), 1 c? . Exp. 78-100 millim. 



