12J: NOCTUIDJi;. 



7240. Catocala ixion. 



Catocalu, ixion, Druce, Biol. Centi-.-Am., Het. i. p. 360, pi. 31. f. 2 (1890). 



c? . Head and thorax red-browa mixed with grey ; frons with 

 lateral black bars ; tegulse with black medial line ; patagia with 

 black streaks near edges ; pectus whitish tinged with brown ; legs 

 brown and grey, the tarsi blackish ringed with whitish ; abdomen 

 pale red-brown slightly irrorated with fuscous, the ventral surface 

 whitish suffused with red-brown. Fore wing dark red-brown 

 mixed with purplish grey and irrorated with black-brown, the 

 basal area greyer ; subbasal line black, excurved below costa and 

 ending at submedian fold ; antemedial line double, blackish filled in 

 with grey, the inner line less distinct, oblique, waved ; reiiiform 

 with indistinct greyish annulus incompletely defined by black and 

 with short black strealis beyond it on veins 6, 5, a dark shade above 

 it on costa ; a pear-shaped spot with whitish annulus defined by 

 black below end of cell ; posttnedial line black slightly defined on 

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

 sinuous, acutely angled outwards above and below vein 5, then 

 incurved and waved, with black streaks before it above and below 

 vein 1 ; subterminal line very indistinct, greyish, dentate, oblique 

 from costa to below vein 6 and with black streaks beyond it in the 

 interspaces to the series of black striae before termen, slightly defined 

 on outer side by fuscous. Hind wing orange-yellow, the inner area 

 suffused with brown ; a medial black band, oblique from costa to 

 vein 5, then bent inwards to inner margin, its outer edge excurved 

 at vein 5 ; the terminal area black, its inner edge irregularly curved ; 

 a yellow apical patchy followed by a series of small terminal spots 

 in the interspaces, the cilia beyond them intersected by yellow. 

 Underside of fore wing black-brown, the terminal area with a faint 

 purplish gloss, a yellow patch at base, an oblique yellow medial band 

 from costa to below submedian fold where it is attenuated, an 

 obliquely curved postmedial baud, and some grey on apical area ; 

 hind wing as above but the postmedial area yellowish white from 

 costa to vein 7 and the apical patch yellowish white. 



Hab. Mexico, Guerrero, Xucumanatlan (H. H. Smith), 1 (5 type, 

 Godman-Salvin Coll. E.vp. 72 millim. 



7241. Catocala deuteronympha. 



C&tocala deideronym2)ha, Staud. Stett. Ent. Zeit. 1861, p. 290 ; id. Kom. 



Mem. vi. p. 686, pi. 12. f. 2 ( $ ) ; id. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 249. 

 Catocala grey i, Staud. Stett. Ent. Zeit. 1888, p. 270; id Eom. Mem. vi. 



p. 593, pi. 11. f. 7 (c?); id. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 249. 



Head and thorax grey-white mixed with red-brown ; palpi with 

 some blackish ; frons with black lateral bars ; tegulae with black 

 lines near base, at middle and at tips, the prothorax with blackish 

 bar, the patagia with black lines near edges ; pectus brownish 

 white ; legs irrorated with brown, the tarsi blackish ringed with 



