CATOCALA. 133 



apex. Underside of fore wing yellow, with obliquely curved 

 postmedial band and the terminal area brown ; hind wing as 

 above. 



Hah. Asia Minor, Taurus Mts. Exp. 64 millim. This species 

 is unknown to nie, figured from a drawing from type in Coll. 

 Staudinger. 



7251. Catocala nymphagoga. 



Kocfua nymphagoga, Esp. Schmett. iv. pi. 105, f . 5 & 105 b. f. 5 (1787) ; 



Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 337 ; Frr. Neue Beitr. pi. 155. f. 2; 



Staud. Cat. Lep. pal, p. 250. 

 mctvM uxor, Hubn. Eeitr. p. 31, pi. 4. f. X (1788). 

 Catocala tmolia, Led. Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. ix. p. 67, pi. 3. f. 10 (1865). 

 Catocala anthracita, Th. Mieg. Le Nat. (2) iii. p. 181 (1889). 

 Catocala curvifasciata, Schultz, Intern. Ent. Zeit. xx. p. 100 (1906). 

 Catocala nuhilosa, Schultz, Intern. Ent. Zeit. xx. p. 100 (1906). 



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

 white, the 2nd joint irrorated with black, the 3rd black except 

 at tip ; frons with lateral black bars; tegulse with diffused dark 

 band near tips ; pectus and legs yellowish white, the tibiae irrorated 

 with brown, the fore tibiae with black and white band at extremitj% 

 the tarsi black ringed with white ; abdomen yellow tinged with 

 rufous, the ventral surface yellowish white. Fore wing grey-white 

 suffused with red-brown, the basal area whiter irrorated with 

 brown ; subbasal line represented by black striae from costa and 

 cell ; antemedial line black, strong, oblique and slightly sinuous 

 to submedian fold, incurved at vein 1, a slight whitish shade 

 beyond it from costa to median nervure ; reniform defined by 

 black, on outer side strongly, a dark bar above it from costa ; a 

 spot defined by black below end of cell connected by a sinus on 

 vein 2 wdth the postmedial line, which is black, rather strong, 

 defined on outer side by white at costa, bent outwards below costa, 

 tlien oblique, angled outwards above and below vein 5, then 

 inwardly oblique and minutely dentate, angled outwards in sub- 

 median fold and strongly inwards at vein 1 ; subterminal line 

 Avhitish defined on each side by dark brown, dentate, oblique from 

 costa to below vein 6 ; a crenulate black terminal line defining 

 a series of whitish points on termen. Hind wing golden yellow, 

 the inner area slightly suffused with red-brown ; a narrow blackish 

 medial band, oblique to submedian fold, then bent inwards to 

 near inner margin ; a blackish terminal band, its inner edge 

 incurved at vein 2 and excurved at submedian fold, then narrowing 

 to tornus ; the termen very narrowly yellow towards apex, then 

 ■with series of slight yellow marks in the interspaces ; ciha whitish, 

 chequered with brown at veins 6 to 2. Underside of fore wing 

 pale yellowish, a faint red-brown antemedial shade, an oblique 

 blackish brown medial band, terminal area grey-brown, its inner 

 edge curved, cilia white chequered with brown at tijjs ; hind wing 

 as above but the medial band obsolescent, the terminal band pale 

 grey -brown. 



