13i NocTuiDJi;. 



Ab. 1. anthracita. Fore wing almost uniform blackish. 



Ab. 2. nuhilosa. Hind wing suffused with blackish. 



Ab. 3. tmolia. Hind wing with the medial black band almost 

 evenly obliquely curved. 



Hab. S. Fkance, Zeller, Frey, and Leech Colls. ; Geemant, 

 Zeller and Mutzell Colls, ; Aosteia ; Hungaey, D'Emmich Coll. ; 

 Switzerland, Mutzell Coll. ; Spain, Andalusia, Mutzell Coll. ; 

 Dalmatia, Leech Coll. ; Gkeece, Leech and Merlin Colls. ; Etjssia, 

 Mutzell Coll. ; Armenia ; Khcedistan ; Asia Mince, Bithynia, 

 Lydia, Taurus, Syria. Exp. 36-46 millim. 



Larva. Kirby, Butt. & Moths Eur. p. 277 ; Hffm. Eaup. p. 150, pi. 38. f. 1. 



Yellowish mottled with red-brown ; warts brown and prominent ; 

 8th somite with a yellow and black prominence; llth somite 

 with two pointed prominences ; ventral surface yellow ; head 

 red-brown mottled with yellow. Food-plant, Oak. 5. 



7252. Catocala patala. 



Catocala ■paicda, Feld. Eeis. Nov. pi. 112. f. 23 (1874) ; Hmpsn. Moths 



Ind. ii. p. 439. 

 Catocala volcanica, Butl. Cist. Ent. ii. p. 244 (1877) ; id. 111. Het. B.M. 



ii. p. 40, pi. S3, f. 10. 



Head and thorax bright rufous mixed with some greyish ; frons 

 with lateral black bars ; tegulce dark brown at tips, the patagia 

 with some blackish scales near edges ; pectus brownish white ; 

 tarsi dark brown ringed with whitish ; abdomen fulvous yellow, 

 the ventral surface pale yellow. Fore wing greenish ochreous 

 suffused with rufous, the basal area deep rufous towards the ante- 

 medial line, the medial area rather greyer and with some dark 

 irroration ; subbasal line black, curved, from costa to submedian 

 fold ; antemedial line strong, black, oblique, sinuous ; reniform 

 with red-brown centre and greyish annulus defined on inner side 

 by black and on outer by red-brown, an oblique black striga above 

 it from costa; a rather quadrate spot defined by black below eud 

 of cell; postmedial line black slightly defined on outer side by grey, 

 bent outwards below costa, then oblique, acutely angled outwards 

 above and below vein 5, then incurved, minutely dentate, excurved 

 at submedian fold and angled inwards at vein 1 ; subterminal line 

 grey defined on outer side by red-brown, dentate, oblique from 

 costa to below vein 7 ; a series of black striae before termen defined 

 on outer side by whitish. Hind wdng golden yellow, the hair 

 on inner margin blackish ; a strong black fascia in submedian 

 fold to the black medial band, which is oblique to submedian 

 fold, then bent inwards and narrowing to inner margin, its outer 

 edge excurved at vein 5 ; a black subterminal band, its inner edge 

 oblique and minutely dentate to vein 4, angled inwards to the 

 medial band at veins 2 and 1, and excurved at submedian fold, 

 its outer edge crenulate to termen at veins 6 to 2 ; cilia yellowish 



