CATOCALA. 137 



7255. Catocala conversa. 



Nociua conversa, Esp. Schmett. iv. pi. 105. B. ff. 1-3 (1787); Goclfc. Lep. 



Fr. V. p. 78, pi. 49. ff. 1, 2, & pi. 50. f. 1 ; Herr.-Schaff. Schmett. Eur., 



Noct. f. 448 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 250. 

 Noct'ua uxor, Hiibn. Beitr. Schmett. ii. 3, p. 01, pi. 1. f. C (1791). 

 Noctua pasi/ihea, Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. ff. 455, 713-4 (1818). 

 Noctua agamos, Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 525 (1818). 

 Catocala carhonaria, Staud. Hor. Ent. Soc. Eoss. vii. p. 130 (1870). 



Head and thorax grey-white mixed with some red-brown and 

 black; palpi with the 2nd joint red-brown except at base and tip ; 

 frons with lateral black bars ; tegulae at middle and prothorax with 

 red-brown bands ; pectus and legs grey-white slightly mixed with 

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

 the ventral surface white tinged with rufous. Fore wing grey- 

 white irrorated and in parts suffused with red-brown, the veins with 

 slight blackish streaks ; subbasal line with an oblique black bar 

 from costa, then slight and ending at submedian fold ; antemedial 

 line black-brown defined on inner side by white with some red- 

 brown suffusion before it, expanding into a patch at costa, then 

 oblique, sinuous, slight in submedian interspace, a white shade 

 beyond it from costa to median nervure ; reniform defined by 

 blackish and with some brown in centre, its outer edge somewhat 

 dentate, an oblique dark bar above it from costa ; a whitish spot 

 defined by black below end of cell connected by a sinus on vein 2 

 with tho postmedial line, which is black, bent outwards below costa, 

 then obliquely downcurved, acutely angled outwards above and 

 below vein 5, then inwardly oblique, dentate, angled outwards at 

 submedian fold, then strong and strongly angled inwards at vein 1 ; 

 subterminal line whitish defined on each side by red-brown, dentate, 

 oblique from costa to below vein 6 ; a crenulate black-brown line just 

 before termen with whitish points beyond it on termen. Hind wing 

 golden yellow, some red-brown suffusion in submedian interspace 

 to the obliquely curved black medial band ending at submedian 

 fold and with its outer edge excurved at vein 5; terminal area 

 blackish, broad towards costa, its inner edge excurved at middle ; 

 the termen narrowly yellow towards apex, then with slight yellow 

 marks in the interspaces to vein 2 ; cilia white, yellow at base and 

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

 white, an oblique brown shade from costa before middle to the 

 obliquely curved black medial band with its outer edge excurved at 

 vein 5, at submedian fold, terminal area blackish, its inner edge 

 oblique to vein 4, some whitish at apex ; hind wing as above but 

 the basal costal area whitish tinged with rufous, the postmedial 

 area white to vein 5. 



Ab. 1. agamos. Fore Aving darker, especially on underside. 



Ab. 2. carhonaria. Fore wing almost wholly suffused with 

 fuscous. 



Hab. S. France, Frcy Coll. ; Germany, Zellcr, Frey, and Mutzell 

 Colls. ; Austria, Bohemia, Moravia, Mutzell Coll., Caruiola ; 



