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In late August Harold Davenport took two specimens of 

 C. nebulosa but both were ragged. However, he secured six- 

 teen eggs from the female. 



On August 1 2th. a female Catocala abbrei'iatclla was taken 

 in the grass under an apple tree and, although crippled, laid 

 fourteen eggs. This was the first moth of this species taken 

 at Louisiana by the senior author although Mr. E. A. Dodge 

 reports taking it at Asclcpias blooms in 1900, 1901 and 1902 

 after sundown. 



On July 3Oth, Harold Davenport took a fine male C. junctura 

 on a shade tree in the city limits. On the I5th of August he 

 captured a splendid C. angnsi var lucctta, having taken on 

 July 3 ist, a gigantic male C. riduata. 



The senior author took a fine perfect female viduata on 

 September 6th and a ragged female C. ilia with light yellow 

 hing wings, on the 8th, that laid a few eggs, somewhat larger 

 than the usual ilia egg and almost black against a lighter 

 brown. Rubbed, as it was, this moth was somewhat puzzling 

 and not till she laid the eggs was the collector positively able 

 to determine her specific relations. 



From eggs laid by a C. innubens, plain form, a brood of lar- 

 vae was reared in 1909 that gave not a single scintillans moth 

 while from eggs laid by a scintillans, a fine lot of imagoes of 

 which 46 per cent, were scintillans were bred in 1910. As in 

 1909 there was practically no loss in these larvae and it is 

 this hardy character of the innubens caterpillar that assures 

 an abundance of the moths, every summer. From the latter 

 part of June till the first of September, it is fairly common in 

 the woods and during much of these two months passable 

 cabinet specimens may be secured. The majority of the first 

 specimens of the season are of the variety hind a and this is 

 smaller than the normal form that hardly appears in numbers 

 much before August. A splendid variation of hinda has a 

 white or cream colored spot on the front wing and a purple 

 reflection from the top of the primaries. Scintillans appears 

 along with hinda and lingers until innubens proper disappears. 



