138 XOCTTTIDJS. 



Hungary, D'Emmicli Coll, ; Switzerland ; Spain ; Italy ; Algeria ; 

 Dalmatia, Leech and Merlin Colls. ; Balkan States ; S. Russia ; 

 Akmenia ; Asia Minor, Magnesia {Ledere)-\ 1 S ■, Bithynia, Lydia, 

 'J aurus, Amanus Mts., IS, 2 5 ; SmiA, Leech Coll., 1 <S . 

 Exp. 50-6 J- millim. 



Larva. Kirby, Butt. & Moths Eur. p. 277 ; HfFm. Raup. p. 150, pi. 37. f. 15. 



Blackish or brown ; the 1st and 12th somites yellow with dark 

 points ; dorsal line pale ; 4th and 5th somites with subdorsal yellow 

 spots, the 7th to 10th somites with large yellowish grey lateral 

 spots ; warts whitish ; head brown with darls markings. 



Pood-plants : Sloe and Qaercus sessilijlora. 5, 



*7256. Catocala contemnenda. (Plate CXCIX. fig. 7.) 



Catocala contemnenda, Stand. Iris, iv. p. 329, pi. 4. f. 11 (1891) ; id. Cat. 

 Lep. pal. p. 248. 



Head and thorax grey tinged with brown ; tegulse with slight 

 dark line near tips ; palpi whitish at base ; pectus and legs whitish, 

 the latter irrorated with brown ; abdomen pale yellowish tinged 

 with brown. Fore wing grey irrorated and in parts suffused with 

 pale reddish brown ; a black subbasal striga from costa ; ante- 

 medial line indistinct, double, brown with small blackish spots at 

 costa, oblique, waved ; reniform with sinuous brown outline and 

 brown lunule in centre, an oblique blackish bar above it from 

 costa ; postmedial line blackish, slightlj^ bent outwards below costa, 

 then obliquely downcurved to below vein 6, then oblique and 

 slightly sinuous to below end of cell where it forms a sinus to 

 tnedian nervure near origin of vein 2, then angled outwards in sub- 

 median fold, a diifused brown baud be3'ond it oblique from costa to 

 vein 5 ; subterminal line indistinct, pale slightly defined on outer 

 side by brown, bent outwards to termen below apex, then minutely 

 waved ; a series of blackish strias before termen ; a waved blackish 

 terminal line. Hind wing pale ochreous yellow ; medial band 

 black, oblique from costa to submedian fold, then slightly bent 

 inwards, its outer edge excurved at vein 5 ; a terminal black band, 

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

 inwards at vein 2 ; the termen narrowly whitish at apex ; cilia 

 white. Underside whitish ; fore wing with oblique brown ante- 

 medial shade from costa to submedian fold where it is confluent 

 with the obliquely curved black medial band, an obliquely curved 

 blackish subterminal band from below costa to tornus; hind wing 

 as above but the terminal band paler and leaving more whitish at 

 apex. 



Hah. E. Turkestan, Tvashgar; Mongolia, Aksu in Coll. Plingeler. 

 ExiJ. S 44, $ 50 millim. 



7257. Catocala hymenaea. 



Nociua hymenea, SchifF. Wien. Verz. p. 91 (1776) ; Esp. Schmett. \\. 

 pi. 106. f. 1 ; Hiibii. Eur. Sclmiett., Noct. ff. 340, 528 ; Frr. Neue Eeitr. 



