THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Catocala Belfragiana Harvey. Bull. B. S. N. S., 2, 281. 



I learn that this species is the same as C. jocaste of Mr. Strecker. My 

 paper was read Feb. 5th, and printed in February. I do not think as 

 early a date can be shown for the Number of Mr. Strecker. This species 

 extends to Kansas (Prof. Snow) ; I have vainly tried to identify it with 

 the unknown messalina of Guenee. 



NOTES ON BISTON URSARIA Walker. 



BY G. J. BOWLES, MONTREAL, P. Q. 



This moth, which is very common in and about Montreal, is described 

 by Walker, in a paper by W. S. d' Urban, published in Vol. 5 of the 

 Canadian Naturalist (i860), entitled "A Systematic List of Lepidoptera 

 Collected in the Vicinity of Montreal.*' It is also taken at Quebec, but 

 I met with only two specimens there during several years' collecting. 



The following is the description (of one sex only) : 



" Male. Dark cinereous, speckled with black, very robust and pilose. 

 Antennae very broadly pectinated. Thorax with three black bands. Legs 

 densely tufted. Fore wings with four black oblique lines, first line bent, 

 second and third approximate, slightly undulating, diverging towards the 

 costa, fourth diffuse. Hind wings with first line obsolete, second and 

 third apparent, fourth indicated by a short broad streak near the interior 

 angle. Length of body 8 — 9 lines ; expanse 22 — 24 lines." 



The female is generally larger, less distinctly marked, and the wings 

 are more transparent. Antennae filiform. 



The English species ( B. kistaria) stands on our list as a native of 

 Canada, but I have not met with it. The habits of the two species are 

 very similar, and the caterpillars resemble each other closely ; indeed, 

 were it not for the difference in color and markings between the perfect 

 insects, they would no doubt be considered identical. The description 

 of the larva of kistaria given by Newman, in his " Natural History of 

 British Moths," would answer equally well for that of ursaria, and its 



