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margin, its outer edge angled outwards at vein -5 ; a subterminal 

 black band, from costa to just below vein 2, its inner edge excurved 

 at middle and its outer edge produced as diffused streaks to termcn. 

 at veins 6 and 2 ; an elliptical black spot on termen at vein 1 ; 

 cilia tinged with brown at middle. Underside orange-yellow ; 

 fore wing with oblique black antemedial shade from cell to inner 

 margin, obliquelj' curved postmedial black band with sinuous edges, 

 and terminal band narrowing to a point at tornus, its inner edge 

 curved ; hind wing as above but without the brown in and below 

 cell, the terminal band diffused to termen and confluent with the 

 patch at vein 1. 



Hah. CoEEA, Escp, 86 millim. This species is unknown to me. 



7244. Catocala nyraphseoides, 



Catocala mpnq^hceyides, Herr.-Schaff. ScliineCt. Eur. vi. p. 60 (185G), 



Noct. ff. 599, 600 ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. -MQ. 

 Catocala' nymplmla. Stand. Rom. Mem. vi. p. 589 (1892). 



Head and thorax leaden grey mixed with dark brown ; palpi 



with the base and 2nd joint in front bluish white; pectus and legs 



white mixed with brown, the tarsi fuscous ringed with whitish ; 



abdomen fulvous brown, the ventral surface white. Fore wing 



leaden grey suffused with red-brown and irrorated with dark 



brown ; subbasal line brown, sinuous, from costa to submedian 



fold ; antemedial line dark brown, obli(}ue, sinuous ; reniform 



obscurely defined by brown and with some brown suffusion above 



it on costa ; a small spot defined by brown below end of cell, its 



outer edge indented ; postmedial line brown, bent outwards below 



costa, then oblique^ angled outwards above vein 5, then inwardlj' 



oblique, dentate, bent inwards at vein 1 ; subterminal line indistinct, 



diffused, grey slightly defined on each side by red-brown, minutely 



dentate, oblique from costa to below vein 7 ; the terminal arearathep 



browner with a series of blackish points before termen. Hind wing 



golden yellow; black-brown fascia3 on costal area, in submedian folds 



and on inner margin to the medial black band, which is oblique to 



submedian fold and interrupted at vein 1 and has its outej' edgo 



angled outwards at vein 5 ; a black terminal band from costa to just 



below vein 2 and a patch at vein 1, the inner edge of the band 



oblique to vein 4 and incurved at vein 2 ; the termen with narrox^ 



yellow patch at apex, then with slight yellow marks in the inter=- 



spaces to vein 2 ; cilia yellowish white, chequered with bji'own st 



veins 6 to 2. Underside of fore wing yellow with a brownif^h fascia 



on inner area from near base to middlcj an obliquely curved black 



medial band, narrowing at inner ma?-gin, its outer edge incurved at 



discal fold and excurved at vein 5, termin.^-l area blackish, its inner 



edge curved and minutelj- waved ; hind wing as above but without 



the dark fascia3 on basal area, the medial banl not interrupted at 



vein 1. 



Hah. E. Siberia, Amurland, lladdefka, 1 d', 1 _9 . Exp. 52-54 

 millim. 



