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Show 1889.] LEPIDOPTERA OF JAPAN AND COREA. 551 357. CATOCALA OMPHALE. Catocala omphale, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1881, p. 195. Four specimens, coll. Pryer. Tokio (Fenton) ; Yesso (Pryer). 358. CATOCALA HYMENEA. Noctua hymenea, Schiff. S. V. p. 91; Esp. Schmett. iv. pi. 106. fig. I ; Hiibn. Noct. pi. 73. fig. 340. Noctua posthuma, Hiibn. Noct. pi. 113. figs. 526, 527. Catocala hymenea, Treit. Schmett. v. p. 373 ; Guen. Noct. iii. p. 105. I took two examples at Gensan in July. Gensan (Leech) ; South and East Europe. 359. CATOCALA PUELLA, sp. n. (Plate LIII. fig. 5.) Primaries greyish brown ; a black abbreviated basal line and indented inner line; the outer line is also black ; this last starts from the costa in an oblique direction towards outer margin, then curves inwards and upwards to the median nerve, which it traverses for a short distance, then descends to the inner margin making one sharp angle in its course; a dark wavy submarginal line and a series of dark marginal lunules; stigmata indistinct : secondaries pale yellowish orange, with broad blackish outer margin and a dash of the ground-colour at outer angle; central band interrupted before the costa. Under surface pale yellowish orange; blackish central line and outer border to all the wings ; the outer angle of secondaries is tipped with orange. Abdomen grey, tinged with tawny beneath. Expanse 50 millim. One example taken by myself at Gensan in July 1886. 360. CATOCALA ESTHER. Catocala esther, Butl. Cist. Ent. ii. p. 243 (1877); 111. Typ. Lep. Het. ii. pi. xxxiii. fig. 9 (1878). Several examples, coll. Pryer. I took specimens at various localities in Japan and at Gensan in the Corea in July. Yokohama (Jonas and Pryer) ; Shimonoseki, Tsuruga, Nagahama, Gensan (Leech); Tokio, Chekiang, Kiukiang. 361. CATOCALA ELLA. Catocala ella, Butl. Cist. Ent. ii. p. 242 (1887); 111. Typ. Lep. Het. ii. pi. xxxiii. fig. 5 (1878). A fine series, coll. Pryer. I took a fine series at Hakodate in August. The black bands of secondaries are subject to considerable variation; in some examples almost the entire wing is suffused with black. Yokohama (Jonas, Manley, and Pryer) ; Yesso (Pryer) ; Hakodate (Leech). |