CATOCALA. 
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CATOCALID^. 
CATOCALA, Ochs. 
Catocala bella. (Plate XLVI. fig. 10.) 
Catocala bella, Butler, Cist. Ent. ii. p. 242. n. 4 (1877). 
Allied to C. neogama-, primaries slightly narrower, of a more slaty-grey tint, with the outer 
border dusky and tinted with reddish ; secondaries with a broader black central band, a 
broader black outer border, and with the apex and fringe white instead of ochreous ; outer 
border Avhitish ; secondaries below with the anterior half of the bands, the apex, and fringe 
white instead of ochreous ; body below white. Expanse of wings 2 inches 6 lines. 
Yokohama {Jonas). 
Catocala prsegnax. (Plate XLVI. fig. 11.) 
Catocala prfegnax, Walher, Cat. Lep. Ilet. xiii. p. 1213 (1857). 
Allied to C. esther (111. Lep. Het. pi. xxxiii. fig. 9), but smaller and paler ; primaries 
with the markings less defined, the whitish borders of the central lines browner j the outer 
line without the deep indentation near the inner margin ; the annular reniform spot at the 
base of the first median interspace much larger ; secondaries with the hairy brown streak 
parallel to the abdominal margin abbreviated, the fringe of the abdominal margin yellower, 
the central belt not reaching the abdominal margin ; the external border narrower ; body 
rather paler : under surface with the postmedian transverse brown belt broader. Expanse of 
wings 2 inches 3 lines. 
North China [Fortune). 
Catocala zalmunna. (Plate XLVII. fig. 3.) 
Catocala zalmnnna, Butler, Cist. Eat. ii. p. 241. n. 1 (1877). 
Closely ailed to C. electa, but much larger, the primaries of a more silver-grey tint ; tlie 
reniform spot large and yellowish, the black markings finer ; secondaries above more 
distinctly shot with lilacine, the angular belt with its inferior half narrow’er; outer border 
more narrowly white : primaries below w'ith the white discal band narrower and more angular, 
the white border confined to the apex and fringe ; secondaries with the black band more con- 
stricted in the centre. Expanse of wings 3 inches 5 lines. 
Yokohama [Jonas)-, Hakodate [Whitely). 
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