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CATOCALA. Bv W. Warrex. 



a similar blackish line: a marginal series of white, black-edged dots; hindwing purple brown, almost black, 

 except along inner margin; a spot at lower angle of cell and a slender angulated and externally dentate outer 

 band orange; a yellow streak at apex: fringe brown, pale-mottled, white at apex. Japan and Yesso. 



agitatrix- C. agitatrix Graes. (=mabella Ho//.) (56 f I. Forewing with apex squared, the termen slightly gibbous; 



ground colour dull cloudy ash-grey with a brownish or bluish tint: inner and outer lines finely black, as finely 

 edged with whitish, shaped as in M. be/la, but the inner less waved; reniform stigma large and conspicuous, 

 pale brown, with a whitish yellow centre and bluish white outline; the spot below it with slight pale outline, 

 and sometimes obsolete; subterminal line formed of a row of pale spots; a row of round whitish dots before 

 margin; fringe concolorous: hindwing yellow: the black markings as in obscena. Described from 2 ?? bred 

 from larvae found feeding on Pyrus at Chabarofka, Amurland; mabella from Japan and Kiushiu. 



armandi. C. armandi Pouj. (=davidi Pouj. nee Oberth). This species, described from a single ? from Moupin, 



W. China is said by Leech to be close to inconstans Bt/r. 



abacia. C. abacta Stgr. Forewing with colouring and markings as in praegnax Walk.; hindwing orange, with 



broad black terminal border, containing a yellow patch at apex, four yellow lunules between veins 2 and 6, and 

 a shallow yellow space on submedian interval; median band narrow, obsolete towards costa, faintly curved 

 below vein 2. then right-angled to near inner margin; underside of forewing dull yellow, with broad black 

 terminal border, the apex and exlreme termen yellowish; from middle of costa a black band obliquely widening 

 outwards joins the terminal border between veins 1 and 3, separated beneath by a small yellow blotch, the 



veins remaining yellow. 



Described from a single cf from the Taurus Mts., Asia Minor. 



patala. C. patala F/dr. (=volcanica Btlr.) (56 d). Forewing dark olive fuscous in the basal and terminal 



areas, sometimes tinged with reddish brown, the median area generally paler, interrupted by the darker median 

 shade containing the reniform stigma, which has a dark ocelloid centre ringed with pale and outlined in black; 

 the spot below pale olive yellow, black-edged; inner line oblique, black, forming three slight outward curves; 

 outer line black, forming two acute teeth, above and below vein 5, and a long blunt projection on submedian 

 fold, followed by a double lunulate olive line; the submarginal line, which is broad, is pale olive yellow, 

 edged externally by a thick zigzag line; hindwing deep yellow, with a broad, roundly incurved black median 

 band, joined on submedian fold by a blackish streak from base; terminal band very broadly black, containing 

 a yellow apical blotch, and on its inner edge two sinuses, the lower one nearly interrupting the black border, 

 fumosa. the pointed projection just before it touching median band; — in a dark form — ab. fumosa ab. nov. (56c) 

 the whole forewing is suffused with smoky fuscous brown. The species occurs only in Japan. Felder's type 

 of patala is given as from the N. W. Himalayas; it is just possible that the form exists there, though no 

 further record of its capture has been made. 



doei-Hesi. C. doerriesi Stgr. ( = honrathi Graes., hampsoni Leech (56 d). Forewing red-brown suffused with purplish 



grey; the space in cell immediately preceding reniform stigma and the triangular spot below the latter ochreous 

 white dusted with brown and fuscous "scales; a streak of the same tint from subcostal vein before outer line 

 to vein 5: inner line double, thick, black; outer line forming two nearly equal teeth above and below vein 5 

 and a strong black inward tooth above vein 1 ; submarginal line zigzag, somewhat ochreous-tinged below 

 middle, and outwardly edged with dark purplish grey; reniform stigma obscure, lying in a purplish grey median 

 shade; thickly black-edged inwardly, more narrowly externally; hindwing deep orange; the median black band 

 broad, meeting dark streaks from base along costa, submedian fold, and inner margin; terminal border very 

 broad, its inner edge containing a sinus below middle and on submedian fold, on each side of the latter 

 projecting inwards; underside with outer band of forewing throughout, of hindwing from costa to vein 5, 

 brightly white; apical spot and fringe of hindwing white. Amurland, Ussuri district, and West China. 



nytnpha- C. nymphagoga Esp. ( = uxor Hbn. part. (56 f). Forewing grey more or less wholly suffused with 



9°9 a - blackish brown, the basal area, or at least its lower half, a costal patch beyond inner line, a streak from 



costa before outer line, and the submarginal line itself remaining pale; inner and outer lines velvety black, 



distinct, sometimes doubled; the inner oblique, dentate inwards on the veins; the outer biangulate externally 



(in vein 5, forming a deep sinus inwards, its end below the reniform pale, and an inward angle on vein 1: 



reniform indistinct, obscured by the brown median shade, with dark centre and outline; subterminal line 



waved, distinct, with darker dentate edges; hindwing yellow, with broad black terminal border, containing a 



small yellow spot at apex and a sinus inwardly in submedian interval: the median band narrow and straight, 



acutely or squarely angled on the submedian fold, the base of wing often darkened with olive fuscous; - 



anthracita. the darkest specimens, with the I'orewings almost unicolorous black brown, form the ab. anthracita Th.-Mg. 



tmolia. (57 e): tmolia Led. (56 f) has the forewing pale grey; the black median band of hindwing not angled but 



