298 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



long and white ; tegulae very dark brown ; wings rather short, slightly 

 dusky, more hairy than usual, nervures piceous ; first recurrent nervure 

 received by second submarginal cell not far from its end ; third 

 submarginal narrowed a little more than half to marginal ; legs black, 

 with white hair, small joints of tarsi becoming ferruginous ; abdomen with 

 short black hair, except on the first segment and extreme base of second 

 (where it is white), at the apex (where it is pale), and clear white bands 

 of hair near the apical margins of segments two to five ; the first segment 

 has some black hair dorsally near its apical margin; apical plate truncate, 

 not notched at the sides. 



Hub. — La Jolla, San Diego Co., Calif, August, 1901. A very 

 distinct species, by its black face, black hair on mesothorax, and long 

 antennae. For some account of other species with black faces in the 

 male, see Entom., Oct., 1S96, p. 304. 



NOTES ON THE EARLY STAGES OF CATOCAL.E. 



BY G. M. AND E. A. DODGE, LOUISIANA, MO. 

 ( Continued from page 226.) 



Catocala retecta, Grt. 



Food-plant, hickory. Length of mature larva, two and one-half 

 inches. Head rather flat, as broad as first segment, gray striped with 

 dark brown, and with a broad black band, ragged in front, running up 

 each side to top of lobe, but not continued over the summit. 



The dorsal stripe consists of a series of rounded, brown patches 

 with a black central line ; tubercles, although not large, tipped with 

 white, and conspicuous ; subdorsal stripes brown, interrupted and 

 indistinct. 



The thoracic segments are blackish; on the fourth segment a pale 

 brown band, much lighter than the general colour, crosses the body ; the 

 central segments are also blackish, but a shade paler than the first three ; 

 there is a slight black transverse ridge on the eighth segment, and the 

 anterior part of this segment is pale brown like the fourth ; the remainder 

 of the eighth segment and all following are as black as the thoracic 

 segments, except that the pale brown dorsal stripe is unusually developed 

 on the eleventh segment. Filaments whitish, very numerous, simple and 

 hair-like, but not very long. Venter white, tinged with pink, with large 



