XXXl'ii, '22] K.NTo.MOUHllCAI. .\K\VS 



In comparison with the larva of C. lacr\mosa the larva of 

 this species is much lighter in color, the lines are less contin- 

 uous and without the dorsal chain of patches. The tubercles 

 are brighter and more prominent on the eighth abdominal seg- 

 ment. The head appears to be comparatively larger with a 

 somewhat different black stripe. In general the larva of C. 

 ulalumc greatly resembles the larva of C. insolabilis but is much 

 lighter in color, while the larva of C. lacrymosa is much like 

 the larva of C. neogama. 



I have reared larvae from the ova laid by four females of 

 C. itla! u me and find the larvae as well as the moths quite 

 constant. Mr. French has pointed out the differences between 

 the imagines of C. ulalume and C. lacrymosa. If C. ulalumc 

 were a variety of C. lacrymosa, intergrades would be found. 

 I have taken intergrades to all varieties of C. lacrymosa but 

 none connecting C. lacrymosa with C. ulalumc. The flight and 

 habits of C. ulalumc and C. lacrymosa in the woods are quite 

 different. If C. ulalumc were a variety of C. lacr \nnosa it 

 would be found throughout the range of the latter, but such 

 does not seem to be the case, as C. ulalumc seems to be found 

 only in the Southern and border United States. It is reported 

 as scarce or rare at St. Louis. Mr. E. A. Dodge kindly 

 allowed me to examine a single worn specimen from Louisiana, 

 Missouri. Mr. E. J. Erb tells me that some years ago he 

 collected several specimens of C. ulalumc in Western Virginia. 

 Messrs. Erb and Doll compared specimens that I collected here 

 near Willard, Greene County, Missouri, with a cotype of C. 

 ulalumc in the Brooklyn Museum. Mr. Doll also kindly sent 

 a specimen to Giicago where Mr. Gerhard compared it with 

 Strecker's types of C. ulalumc in the Field Museum. 



Catocala lacrymosa Guen. 



Egg. This has been described by Barnes and McDonnough in a 

 recent Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 



Larva. Stage I. Head blackish brown; body grayish white. 



Stage II. Head brownish black; body light grayish white; li^ht 

 dorsal stripe, laterally reddish brown with two or three faint lateral 

 lines. 



Stage III. Head smoky black apically, face grayish; body dull black 

 with a lighter geminate dorsal and three lateral lines. 



