130 NOCTUIDiE. 



extremities, the tarsi black ringed with white ; abdomen yellow 

 linged with rufous, whitish at base, the ventral surface white 

 irrorated with brown. Tore wing white tinged with reddish 

 brown and irrorated with dark brown, the costal area whiter, the 

 veins with blackish streaks on terminal area ; an oblique sub- 

 basal black striga from costa ; a black streak in submedian fold 

 from base to the antemedial line, which is blackish, angled out- 

 wards below costa, then oblique and sinuous ; reniform defined by 

 brownish suffusion and with its centre faintly defined by brown, 

 an oblique black striga above it from costa ; a faint whitish spot 

 very slightly defined by brown below end of cell ; postmedial line 

 blackish, bent outwards below costa, then oblique, very acutely 

 angled outwards above and below vein 5, then incurved and 

 obsolescent, strongly angled outwards at submedian fold, then with 

 oblique black streak on it and strongly angled inwards at vein 1 ; 

 subterminal line rather diffused, white, slightly waved, dentate 

 above and below vein 5 and at submedian fold, oblique from costa 

 to below vein 6 ; a crenulate blackish terminal line defining 

 slight white marks on termen. Hind wing golden yellow, the 

 inner area suffused with rufous ; a black medial band obliquely 

 curved from costa to submedian fold, then bent inwards and 

 ending at vein 1, its outer edge angled outwards at vein 5 ; a 

 black terminal baud, its inner edge slightly waved and incurved 

 at veins 2 and 1, angled outwards at submedian fold; the termen 

 narrowly yellow towards apex, then with slight yellow marks 

 in the interspaces ; cilia white slightly chequered with brown 

 at veins 6 to 2. Underside of fore wing white, the basal half 

 suffused with yellow-brown except at costa which is irrorated 

 with brown, an oblique blackish medial band narrowing to costa, 

 bent inwards and narrowing to inner margin, terminal area blackish, 

 its inner edge excurved at middle, the costa towards apex and 

 termen with some whitish ; hind wing as above but the basal 

 costal area and postmedial area to discal fold yellowish white 

 irrorated with brown, a brown streak in end of cell, the apical 

 patch yellowish white irrorated with brown. 



Ab. 1, helene. Pore wing somewhat darker. 



Bab. Canada ; U.S.A., Middle and Central States, New York, 

 Evans Center (Grote), 2 $ , Xansas (Snoiv), 1 $ , Florida, Texas. 

 Exj). 54-60 millim. 



7248. Catocala gracilis. (Plate CXCIX. fig. 6.) 



Caiocala gracilis, W.H. Edw. Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. ii. p. 511 (1864); 



Smith, Oat. Noct. N. Am. p. 331. 

 Catocala sordida, Grote, Can. Ent. ix. p. 170 (1877). 



Head and thorax violaceous white mixed with dark brown ; palpi 

 white, the 2nd and 3rd joints mostly black ; frons with black bar ; 

 tegulse with black band near tips which are white ; patagia with 



