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NOCXDlBiE. 



Merlin Coll. ; Akmestia ; Asia Mixor, Pontus, Bithynia, Lydia ; 

 Sykia; E. Siberia, Ussuri ; ?Corea. Exp. 42-50 millim. 



Larva. Kirby, Butt. & Moths Eur. p. 277, pi. 43. f. 9; Hfim. Eaup. 

 p. 150, pi. 37. f. 14. 



Ash-grey or red-brown with dark points ; four fine dark-edged 

 grey-white lines on dorsal area ; warts brown, raised ; 8th somite 

 Avith a large double brown prominence; 11th somite with two red- 

 brown points ; ventral surface yellow with red-brown marks ; head 

 brown with two white and two dark stripes. Pood-plant, Sloe. 5. 



7258. Catocala anna. (Plate CXCIX. fig. 9.) 



Catocala anna, Grrote, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. v. p. 93 (Sept. 1874). 

 Catocala amestris, Streck. Lep. Rhop. & Het. p. 96, pi. xi. f. 6 (Nov. 10th, 



1874) ; Smith, Cat. JVoct. N. Am. p. 336. 

 Catocala westcottii, Grote, Can. Ent. x. p. 19.5 (1878). 



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

 palpi red-brown ; frons with black lateral bars ; a blackish line 

 between antennae ; tegulae with diff'used red-brown medial band 

 and red-brown tips, the prothorax with narrow red-brown band, 

 the patagia with a few blackish scales near upper edge; pectus 

 suffused with rufous ; tibiee grey irrorated with red-brown, the 

 tarsi blackish ringed with white ; abdomen yellow suffused with 

 rufous, the ventral surface brown tinged with white. Pore wing 

 grey-white slightly tinged with red-brown and irrorated with dark 

 brown ; subbasal line black, excurved below costa and ending at 

 submedian fold ; antemedial line double, brown, the outer line 

 strong, blackish, rather diffused and oblique to submedian fold, then 

 incurved, reniform defined by black with some red-brown suffusion 

 in centre and before and beyond it, an oblique blackish striga above 

 it from costa ; a rather triangular spot defined by black below end 

 of cell, connected with the antemedial line and by a slight sinus on 

 vein 2 with the postmedial line, which is double, the inner line 

 black, the outer red-brown, bent outwards below costa, then 

 obliquely downcurved, angled outwards above vein 5, then incurved, 

 slightly sinuous, excurved at submedian fold and strongly angled 

 inwards at vein 1 ; subterminal line indistinct, whitish, slightly 

 defined on inner side bj' red-brown and with some dark brown 

 before it on costa, slightly waved and obliquely incurved from 

 costa to below vein 6 ; a series of minute blackish points defined 

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

 the inner area slightly tinged with rufous ; a black medial band 

 oblique from costa to submedian fold, then bent inwards and ending 

 at vein 1, its outer edge excurved at vein 5; the terminal area 

 broadly black from costa to just below vein 2, its inner edge 

 oblique to vein 4, then incurved, a black patch at vein 1 ; cilia 

 white chequered with brown between veins 6 and 2. Under- 

 side of fore wing yellow, the costa brownish, an oblique brown 

 shade from costa before middle to the oblique blackish medial band 



