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black streak on outer edge ; pectus and legs white, the tibiae 

 irrorated with brown, the fore tibioe with black bar near extremities, 

 the tarsi black ringed with white ; abdomen pale rufous, the 

 ventral surface white. Fore wing violaceous white irrorated 

 with dark brown ; a curved subbasal black striga from costa and 

 short streak below base of cell ; antemedial line black, excurved 

 below costa, then oblique aud sinuous, angled outwards above 

 inner margin to the postmedial line ; reniform narrow, defined by 

 black, an oblique blackish bar above it from costa ; postmedial 

 line black, slightly bent outwards below costa, then oblique and 

 angled outwards above veiu 5, then inwardly oblique, obsolescent, 

 minutely waved and with minute black streaks on the veins, 

 below submedian fold strong, incurved and ending with the ante- 

 medial line above inner margin ; subterminal line whitish defined 

 on each side by blackish suftusion, strongly dentate, and oblique 

 from costa to below vein 6 ; the terminal area with some black- 

 brown suff'usion above middle and towards tornus and a series of 

 black streaks in the interspace ending in points before termen. 

 Hind wing orange-yellow ; some brown sufii'usion in basal half of 

 submedian fold ; a narrow black medial bandy obli(iue, excurved 

 below vein 5 and ending at vein 1 ; a broad terminal black baud 

 from costa to just below vein 2 and a patch at vein 1, the inner 

 edge of the band oblique to vein 4 ; the termen narrowly yellow 

 towards apex, then with slight yellow points in the interspaces to 

 vein 2 ; cilia whitish, chequered with brown at veins 6 to 2. 

 Underside of fore wing with the basal half yellowish, an obliquely 

 curved blackish medial band followed by a yellowish white band, 

 the terminal area blackish, its inner edge curved, some whitish 

 at apex, cilia chequered white and blackish ; hind wing as above, 

 but the costal area whitish except at the bands, no brown iu 

 submedian interspace, the terminal band connected by a bar on 

 termen with the patch at vein 1, 



Ab. 1. Fore wing with the inner area suifused with black- 

 brown except at base. 



Ab. 2. sordida. Fore wing deeper blue-grey and more suffused 

 with brown, the streak below base of cell absent. 



Hah. Canada ; U.S.A., New York, 4 c?, 3 $ , Evans Center 

 {Grote), 1 ? , Center {Bailey), 2 cj , 2 ? , llhode I., 1 $ , Middle 

 and Southern States. Exp. 42-46 millim. 



*7249. Catocala armandi. (Plate CXCIX. fig. 12.) 



Catoeala davidi, Ponj. Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. (6) vii. p. xxsyiii (1887), nee 



Obertb. 1881. 

 Catocala armandi, Ponj. Bull. Soc. Eut. Fr. (6) viii. p. ccviii (1888). 



5 . Head and thorax brown mixed with grey, tegulte edged 

 with black ; abdomen pale brown. Fore wing black-brown 

 irrorated with grey especially at base and apex ; subbasal line 



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