﻿LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 1193 



Male, Black, speckled with white, white beneath. Thorax in 

 front white, with bhick bands. Abdomen above blackish, whitish 

 between the segments, and with a white apical tuft. Fore wings 

 with two white bands, which include a black white-speckled band, 

 and the latter is interrupted in the middle by a black ringlet ; the 

 exterior band contains a zigzag transverse black line ; exterior bor- 

 der and adjoining part almost white, with deep black niarginal 

 lunules. Hind wings blackish brown, with a regular curved white 

 band and with white ciliae. Length of the body 14 lines ; of 

 the wings 32 lines. 



a. Nova Scotia. From Lieut. Redman's collection. 



Group 2. 

 Like the second European group. 



26. Catocala parta. 



Var. ? JSigricans, alho conspersa ; abdomen cinereum ; alee an- 

 ticcB lineis transversis anguiosis lunulisque marginalibus nigris^ 

 fascia exteriore albicla ; posticce coccinece^ fascia margineque 

 nigris sat latis. 



Catocala parta, Guen, NocL iii. 84, 1430. 



Canada. 



Var, 13. ? Blackish, speckled with white. Abdomen cinereous. 

 Fore wings with angular transverse black lines, with two whitish 

 marks, one on the inner side of the black reniform spot, the other 

 one behind it; exterior transverse line denticulated, with two pro- 

 minent teeth, partly contained in a whitish band ; marginal lunules 

 black. Hind wings crimson, with two black streaks proceeding 

 from the base ; the band and the border moderately broad, the for- 

 mer nearly regular and slightly abbreviated, the latter entire ; cilise 

 white. Length of the body 12^ lines ; of the wings 28 lines. 



a. United States. Presented by E. Doubleday, Esq. 



Var, y. ? Male and female. Blackish. Thorax slightly 

 speckled with white. Abdomen cinereous, with a blackish crest. 

 Fore wings speckled with white, with an exterior irregular denticu- 

 lated whitish band, and with the usual black borders of the whitish 

 black-speckled veniform and posterior spots, and the transverse den- 

 ticulated lines which are indistinct ; a shght ferruginous tinge in 

 the whitish band and in the two discal spots-, marginal lunules 



