March, '08] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 119 



C. epione and Mr. E. A. Dodge adds, palaeogama, zidua, re- 

 tecta and robinsoni. 



It is certain that riduata, lachrymosa, Judith and other black- 

 winged species feed on hickory and perhaps pecan. 



We have found the larvae of neogama on walnut and sus- 

 pect nebulosa has the same food plant. 



Our commonest species, innubens, feeds on honey locust as 

 does also illecta. The latter species was common here in 1900. 



Arnica and illia feed on oak. 



The late summer of 1907 proved a good Catocala season here 

 and some rarities were taken. Illecta was noticeably absent. 



On the 9th of August I took an imago each of Catocala sub- 

 nata and dejecta and Mr. Ed. Dodge took one amatri.v and one 

 Judith. In two seasons there have been but two ainatri.v taken 

 here. Judith is always rare. On August I2th, at night Mr. 

 Dodge took one nuptialis at bait. I have never yet taken this 

 moth. 



The only nebulosa taken here last summer, I took on the i8th 

 of August. The season before we took several specimens of 

 this fine moth. 



On the 5th of August Mr. Ralph Dodge was fortunate 

 enough to take a fine car a with yellow instead of red on the 

 hind wing, a peculiar freak in color. 



On the 29th of August Mr. Ed. Dodge took C. marmorata, 

 the first ever taken here, a magnificent specimen. 



On the nth of the same month, the writer took the first 

 viduata he ever saw here and it was the first and only one taken 

 here this year. From the ist to the I5th of September many 

 specimens of vidna and robinsoni were taken, the latter, almost 

 invariably on the bodies of white oak trees. 



Specimens of insolabilis and flcbilis were taken in the sum- 

 mer of 1906 but not in 1907. 



On the 29th of June, 1906, I took at bait one consors and 

 Dodge took one part a. Neither have been taken since. 



On the I9th of July, 1906, Ralph Rowley took a single speci- 

 men of C. coccinata, a species rarely taken anywhere. 



All in all, the summer of 1907 was an interesting one en- 



