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with its outer edge excurvecl at vein 5, at inner area, terminal area 

 fuscous brown shading to grey at terraen, its inner edge curved ; 

 hind wing as above but the basal costal area and postmedial area to 

 vein 5 white irrorated with red-brown, a brown fascia in sub- 

 median fold to before the medial band, the terminal band conjoined 

 to the patch at vein 1. 



Ab. 1. vescotti. Smalkr ; fore wing rather darker, especially the 

 medial area ; hind wing with the terminal band conjoined to the 

 patch at vein 1. 



Hah. U.S.A., Wisconsin, 1 S , Illinois, 1 J type ivestcotti, 

 Nebraska, Texas, 1 S • Exp. 50-60 milJim. 



Larva. Beutenm. Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. six. p. 508. 



Dorsum yellowish, subdorsal area bluish white, sides bright 

 yellow, the subdorsal area with six black lines, the two lower ones 

 broader; an interrupted black lateral line; 1st somite yellow iu 

 front and behind ; warts bright yellow ; ventral surface deep black ; 

 no dorsal prominences or lateral filaments : claspers marked with 

 yellow; head bluish white with four black stripes in front, the 

 sides with irregular black spots, the vertex with more regular 

 spots and a yellow patch on each lobe. Food-plant, liobinia 

 pseudacacia. 



7259. Catocala abhreviatella. (Plate CXCIX. fig. 11.) 



Catocala ahhreviatella, Grote, Trans. Am Ent. Soe. iv. jd. 14 (1872); id. 

 • 111. Essay, p. 66, pi. iv. f. 40 ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 335. 



Head and thorax pale purplish grey, the head and teguloe tinged 

 with rufous ; frons with lateral black bars ; pectus and legs 

 brownish white, the tibiae irrorated with brown, the tarsi blackish 

 ringed with white ; abdomen yellow tinged with rufous, the ventral 

 surface white. Fore wing pale purplish grey slightly tinged with 

 rufous and irrorated with brown; subbasal line black, excurved 

 below costa and ending at submedian fold, antemedial line strong 

 black and oblique from costa to submedian fold, then faintly defined 

 by rufous and almost obsolete, incurved at vein 1 • reniform strongly 

 defined by black below and moderately on outer side, on inner side 

 faintly defined, and with a dark striga in centre, an oblique 

 brownish bar above it from costa; the spot below end of cell 

 defined by a black lunule on inner side only ; postmedial line very 

 faint except at costa and beyond the cell, where it is black, bent 

 outwards below costa, then oblique, angled outwards above vein 5, 

 then inwardly oblique and dentate, a faint rufous band beyond it 

 defining the diffused grey subterminal line, which is obliquely 

 incui'ved from costa to below vein 6 ; the terminal area suffused 

 with rufous and with a series of blackish points before termen. 

 Hind wing golden yellow, the base of submedian interspace faintly 

 defined by red-brown ; a rather narrow obliquely curved medial 

 band from costa to vein 1, its outer edge excurved at vein 5 ; a 

 broad terminal black band from costa to just below vein 2 and an 



