142 NOCTUID.5!. 



elliptical spot at vein 1, the inner edge of the band incurved at 

 vein 2 ; the termen very narrowly yellow towards apex ; cilia white, 

 brown at base between veins 6 and 2, Underside of fore wing 

 ■with the basal half pale yellow, a curved black-brown medial band 

 narrowing to inner margin followed by a pale yellowish band, the 

 terminal area grey-brown, its inner edge curved ; hind wing as 

 above, but the costal area irrorated with rod-brown, a slight brown 

 discoidal lunule connected above with the medial band, the terminal 

 band confluent with the patch at vein 1. 



Hah. U.S.A., Illinois, 1 $ , Mississippi Valley, Iowa, Minnesota, 

 Nebraska, Kansas (Snow), 2 (^ , Texas, Utah. Exj^. 52-56 millim. 



7260. Catacala vhitneyi. (Plate CC. fig. 1.) 



Catocala whitneyi, Dodge, Can. Ent. vi. p. 125 (1874); Smith, Cat. Noct. 

 N. Am. p. 335. 



Head and thorax pale purplish grey mixed with some rufous ; 

 palpi white with some black at sides of joints; tegulse with 

 diffused brown bands at middle and tips, the prothorax with 

 narrow brown band ; pectus and legs white mixed with brown, the 

 tarsi blackish ringed with white ; abdomen yellow slightly tinged 

 with rufous, the anal tuft white, the ventral surface white irrorated 

 with ])ale rufous. Fore wing grey-white thickly irrorated with 

 red-brown ; subbasal line represented by small black spots below 

 costa and cell defined on outer side by white ; antemedial line 

 represented by an oblique wedge-shaped black bar from costa to 

 submedian fold defined on inner side by white ; reniform defined 

 by black except above and with wedge-shaped black mark before 

 its lower part, some fuscous in centre and an oblique brownish bar 

 above it from costa ; the spot below end of cell faint and red- 

 brown defined on inner side by an oblique black striga ; postmedial 

 line with bi'own bar from costa, then hardly traceable, bent out- 

 wards below costa, oblique to above vein 5, then inwardly oblique ; 

 subterminal line grey, defined on inner side by a strong red-brown 

 line and on outer side slightly by red-brown, obliquely incurved 

 from costa to below vein 6 where it is met by a strong oblique dark 

 red-brown shade from termen below apex ; traces of a series of 

 dark striae before termen. Hind wing golden yellow ; a narrow 

 obliquely curved black medial band from costa to vein 1, its outer 

 edge slightly excurved at vein 5 ; a black terminal band narrowing 

 to vein 1 where it terminates, its inner edge incurved at vein 2 and 

 excurved at submedian fold ; the termen very narrowly yellow 

 towards apex ; cilia white, brown at base between veins 6 and 2. 

 Underside of fore wing with the basal half yellow, a faint oblique 

 red-brown antemedial shade, a narrow oblique black medial band 

 ending at vein 1, its inner edge incurved at end of cell, followed by 

 a pale yellow band, the terminal area black, narrowing to tornus 

 and with its inner edge curved, the apex with some grey, cilia grey 

 and brown ; hind wing as above but the costal area white irrorated 



