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Body brownish black, with a paler dorsal stripe, and broad whitish 

 patches on dorsal surface of segment four and portions of segments seven 

 and eight. The patch on four is usually shaped like a W, with open part 

 forward. 



Tubercles white in front, black behind, and followed by black patches, 

 but on the anal segments the dorsal tubercles are quite large and reddish 

 brown in colour. 



Band of segments eight and nine broad and deep velvety black.  



Ridge of segment eight rather high, inclined backward, and tipped 

 with white or with white flecks on the summit. 



Filaments very few, barely noticeable. 



Body beneath greenish yellow, with large black spots. 



By May 19th upwards of fifty of these larvae had spun up and mostly 

 pupated, all being the progeny of one moth. 



Pupa enclosed in a rather strong silken cocoon covered with leaves, 

 sand or whatever material was to be had. 



Length of pupa about three-fourths of an inch. Slender. Only two- 

 tenths inch wide at its widest part. Bloom rather heavy. 



Gave imago June 4th. 



This is a very active larva in all stages of its growth. The imago 

 is not very common here, although we have taken a number of them, 

 including the three forms included under minuta and its varieties. 



Catocala Judith, Strecker ; Levettei, Grote. 



Description of mature larva taken hiding under bark on trunk of 

 hickory. 



Food-plant, hickory. 



Form of body low and flat ; no elevations on any segment. Length, 

 June 1 st, one and three-fourths inches. Head, wider than thoracic 

 segments, grayish streaked with pale brown, these streaks uniting upon 

 summit of each lobe and there forming a wider longitudinal streak. 



Mouth-parts black, and from each side a black stripe runs up on the 

 cheek about one-tenth of an inch, ending in a point. 



Colour, black, closely reticulated throughout with greenish white, 

 making the general colour appear greenish black. 



Tubercles white, small, but, from the contrast of colour, very 

 distinct. Cervical and anal plates black. No filaments. 



Ventral surface greenish white, each segment marked with a dull 

 brownish spot. 



