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reddish line; subdorsal region dark, mottled and paler on joints 8~io; 

 sides pale to below spiracles ; subventral region dark, reddish below, the 

 center of the venter again pale. Feet pale, mottled ; a ventral brown spot 

 before the feet of joint 8. Spiracles brown, black ringed; tubercles and 

 setae small in blackish spots. There are about thirteen lines on each side 

 of the body, each obscurely double. 



Food plants, clover and grass. Dept. Agriculture, No. 2823. 



40. Catocala illecta Walker. 



Head 3.5 mm., purplish brown, mottled, a pale stripe behind base of 

 eyes ; three vertical black lines on each lobe, not attaining the summit and 

 a line in the clypeus. Body finely transversely banded with purplish white 

 and black, cut by a broad, white, substigmatal band and quadrate deep 

 pink spots at the tubercles. There are about sixteen transverse black 

 lines on each segment, irregularly in pairs, forming a dorsal rectangle 

 above she spot at tubercle i, less distinctly so above ii and on the sides 

 between these tubercles and iii. The pink spots of iii and iv are adjacent 

 to the spiracle and rest on the white substigmatal band. Subventrally 

 the black lines reappear, but the venter is uniformly pale reddish, except 

 for a row of mid-ventral blackish blotches. Feet brown, plates blackish ; 

 cervical shield and anal plate reddish; spiracles black, very narrowly pale 

 centered; tubercles and setas minute. Feet almost equally developed. 



Labelled in Dr. Riley's handwriting, but I find no record of the food 

 plant or collector; possibly it was from J. Boll. This larva somewhat re 

 sembles the Agaristidse. 



41. Catocala amestris Strecker. 



Head 3.4 mm., whitish with six vertical black lines on each lobe and 

 one in the clypeus, broken at vertex by a yellowish spot, somewhat dotted 

 on the sides of head. Body slender, purplish white, longitudinally lined 

 with black. Medio-dorsal line narrow, purple; between it and the spira 

 cles six narrow black lines on each side, the lower ones somewhat more 

 closely spaced, all a little dotted, the lowest one broad and crossing the 

 spiracles. A white substigmatal band, succeeded by a broken black line 

 and another white band over tubercle vi ; a black band along the bases of 

 the feet; venter heavily black blotched. Feet and spiracles black; tuber 

 cles distinct, sordid yellow with pale setas. Feet about equally developed. 



Food plant, Amorpha fruticosa. Texas. J. Boll. 



42. Catocala hermia Hy. Edwards. 



Head 4 mm., large, scarcely retracted, the lobes somewhat bulging 

 above before; red-brown, mottled, a black line from ocelli to vertex, the 

 pair meeting above behind the bulgings of the lobes; clypeus somewhat 

 sunken, a brown central line. Body slightly roughened, tubercles pro 

 duced especially ii ; a transverse dorsal ridge between ii on joints 9 and 

 12. Along subventral margin a fringe of secondary, root-like white 

 processes. Brown, all the lines obsolete, reduced to a series of black 



