154- NOCTTTIDili;. 



thea pale crimson with whitish streaks on the veins, obliquely 

 curved, ending at vein 1, cilia white intersected with brown ; 

 hind wing crimson, the costal area whitish irrorated with brown 

 to beyond middle, tiie postmedial and terminal bands as above but 

 tiuged with purplish. 



Ab. 1. dolli. Head and thorax darker grey; fore wing thickly 

 irrorated with black, the lines and spots less distinct. — Colorado. 



Hah. U.S.A., Colorado, California, 1 c^ , Mendocino Co. Exj). 

 56 millim. 



*-7270. EphBsia violenta. (Plate CC. fig. 7.) 



Catocala violenta, H. Edw. Bull. Erookljn Ent. See. iii. p. 58 (18S0), S ; 



Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 337. 

 Catocala chiricahua, Poling, Can. Eut. sxxiii. p. 127, $ (1901); Djar, 



Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 227. 



S . Head and thorax bluish grey mixed with red-brown ; palpi 

 with black-brown patch at side of 2nd joint; frons with lateral 

 black bars ; antennae black ; tegulse whitish with red-brown line 

 near base and band near tips ; prothorax with red-brown band ; 

 j)ectus and legs grey mixed with brown, the tarsi blackish ringed 

 with white ; abdomen red-brown, the ventral surface grey tinged 

 with red-brown. Eore wing blue-grey irrorated with red-brown ; 

 the veins streaked with black ; subbasal line black, angled out- 

 wards below costa and ending at submedian fold ; antemedial line 

 blackish defined on inner side by red-brown, oblique to submedian 

 fold and angled inwards at vein 1, diffused at costa and produced 

 to a slight dark streak on median nervure ; reniform rufous irrorated 

 with white, slightly defined by blackish, incompletely above and on 

 outer side, an oblique blackish mark above it from costa ; a rufous 

 spot faintly defined by whitish and black below end of cell ; post- 

 medial line black slightly defined on outer side by whitish, forming 

 a small spot at costa, strongly bent outwards below costa, then very 

 oblique and forming long teeth above and below vein 5, then bent 

 inwards and waved, very strongly angled inwards at vein 1 and 

 forming a black streak to near the antemedial line, its outer side 

 defined by a red-brown band with a black spot at costa ; a waved 

 blackish terminal line with black points at the interspaces ; cilia 

 chequered brown and grey. Hind wing crimson, the inner margin 

 with some brown hair ; an obliquely curved black medial band, 

 expanding below costa and in submedian interspaces, excurved at 

 middle, slight below vein 1, and ending above inner margin ; a black 

 terminal band narrowing towards tornus which it does not reach, 

 its inner edge sinuous; cilia white with some crimson at base, 

 crimson at submedian interspace, chequered with black between 

 veins 6 and 2 and blackish towards tornus. Underside of fore 

 wing crimson, an oblique dark brown shade from costa before middle 

 joining the curved black postmedial band on inner area, a post- 

 medial white spot on costa, the terminal area black-brown with 

 some greyish at apex, cilia white intersected with brown ; hind wing 

 with the basal costal area brown, the postmedial area whitish to 



