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closed in the forms of C. lacrymosa. The hind wings are black 



with white fringes, but the black at the ends of the veins of C. 



ulalnvne and dejecta are not as prominent as in C. lacrymosa. 



During the last season my friend, Mr. Brower, has bred C. 



lacrymosa and C. ulalume from the eggs, and he says the larvae 



are different, but I will let him tell that story. From the above 



J think that C. ulalume is entitled to specific rank. 



Preparatory Stages of Catocala ulalume Str., with 



Larva of C. lacrymosa for Comparison 



(Lepid., Noctuidae). 



By A. E. BROWER, Willard, Missouri. 



Catocala ulalume Strecker. 



Egg. Diameter, .04 inch; height, .03; subspherical in shape, the base 

 flattened, not saucer-shaped, the sides with 25 longitudinal ribs that 

 reach the micropyle, with alternate shorter ones, the space between these 

 with transverse shallower lines, as usual; color gray. 



Larva. Stage I. Head brown ; the newly hatched larva yellowish 

 white, becoming grayish white later. 



Stage II. Head light gray, marked with darker stripes ; body dark 

 gray, with subdorsal and two lateral darker lines. 



Stage III. Head light gray, marked with brownish gray lines, a 

 heavy black stripe extending upward from the palpi, apices with dark 

 gray brown stripes ; body light gray, with broken irregular subdorsal 

 and spiracular lines. 



Stage IV. Head light gray, with longitudinal slaty gray lines, promi- 

 nent gray brown stripe across apices extending over the front, a heavy 

 black stripe from corner of mouth extending outward and angled up- 

 ward ; body light gray with irregular broken subdorsal and spiracular 

 lines, and with a black shade on the juncture of the fifth and sixth 

 abdominal segments. 



Stage V. Head large, rounded, larger than the next segment, light 

 gray in color with longitudinal slaty gray lines ; a prominent gray brown 

 stripe across the apex of each lobe extending over the iroiii, a promi- 

 nent black stripe extends outward from the mouth and is sharply 

 angled upward, abruptly terminating about half-way up the face; body 

 whitish gray, with irregular broken subdorsal and spiracular lines, the 

 subdorsal present only as quite prominent markings about the tubercles, 

 a faint centrodorsal line present, a shade over the juncture of the fifth 

 and sixth abdominal segments, less prominent on the fourth, fifth and 

 eighth. The tubercles are fairly prominent, enlarged on the eighth 

 abdominal segment, reddish brown in color. Filaments of fringes 

 small, white. 



