CATOCALA. 135 



white with browu marks at veins 6 to 2, Underside of fore win" 

 yellow, au oblique fuscous brown band from below costa before 

 middle to vein 1, an oblique black medial band, its outer edge 

 excurved at middle, terminal area blackish shading to grey-brown 

 at termen, its inner edge curved ; hind wing as above but the 

 fascia in submedian fold slight, the subterminal band nob 

 connected with the medial baud, its outer edge not crenulate 

 to termen. 



Hind tibiae with one spine, sometimes absent (? broken off). 



Hah. Japan, Hakodate {Leech), 1 S, Oiwake {Pryer), 1 §, 

 Nagahama {Leech), 1 $, Fushiki {Leech), 1 9, Mkko {Maries), 

 3 $ , Tokio {Penton), 1 J , Yokohama {Jonas), 2 S , 1 $ type 

 volcanica; C. China, Kiukiang {Pratt), 2$ ; ? N. India, tj-pe t J 

 in Coll. Rothschild. Exp. 70-82 millim. 



7253. Catocala doerriesi. 



Catoccda doerriesi, Staud. Stett. Ent. Zeit. 1888, p. 271 ; id. Eom. Mem. 



vi. p. 590, pi. 11. f. 8 ; id. Ctit. Lep. pal. p. 249. 

 Catocala hotwaiki. Grzes. Eerl. Ent. Zeit. xxxii. p. 376 (1888). 

 Catoccda hampsoni, Leech, Ti-ans, Ent. Soc. 190U, p. 532. 



J . Head and thorax black-brown mixed with red-br'own and 

 grey-white ; pectus brownish white ; logs whitish irrorated with 

 brown, the tarsi blackish ringed with white; abdomen rufous, the 

 extremity grey-brown, the ventral surface brownish white. Pore 

 wing- black-brown mixed with grey, the inner area darker ; sub- 

 basal line black, angled outwards below costa and ending at sub- 

 median fold, a short black streak beyond it above vein 1 ; antemedial 

 line double, black filled in with grey, oblique, waved ; reiiiform 

 with blackish centre and pale annulus defined by black-brown ; an 

 oblique white shade irrorated with brown from middle of costa to 

 just below vein 2, with a lunulate spot defined by black on it below 

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

 whitish, with an oblique white shade irrorated with brown before 

 it from below costa to vein 5 and beyond it at middle, bent out- 

 ■wards below costa, then oblique and sinuous, acutely angled out- 

 wards above and below vein 5, then dentate and incurved, below 

 submedian fold bent inwards and with a black streak on it and again 

 excurved below vein 1; subterminal line indistinct, pale, dentate, 

 oblique from costa to below vein 6, with a series of slight blackish 

 streaks beyond it in the interspaces ; a series of blackish points 

 before termen defined on outer side by whitish. Hind wing orange- 

 yellow, a black-brown fascia in submedian fold to the medial band 

 and the hair on inner margin black-brown ; medial band black, 

 sinuous, oblique to vein 2 and bent inwards to inner margin, its 

 outer edge excurved at vein 5 ; terminal area black, broadly at 

 costa and narrowing to tornus, its inner edge angled inwards at 

 veins 2 and 1 ; a narrow apical jellow patch with the cilia beyond 

 it white, followed by a series of yellow points on termen to vein 1 



