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VOL. XVIII. LONDON, SEPTEMBER, 1886. No. 9 



CATOCALA NOTES. 



BY G. H. FRENCH, CARBONDaLE, ILL. 



C. Sappho, Strecker. — Last season five specimens of this rare species 

 were taken near here, and it was found about ten miles further north 

 than before. It is as constant in its markings as any species. 



C. Retecta, Grote. — Both the pale and the dark forms of this species 

 were taken last year, with intergrades. I should probably have taken 

 them this season, but I was away from home at the time they were flying. 

 In the woods the habits of the two forms are alike. 



C. Flebilis, Grote. — This species is pretty constant here, the ground 

 color being rather dark bluish gray, with the blackish longitudinal shade. 

 A specimen in my cabinet from Pennsylvania that I received for Flebilis 

 seems to be a stunted form of Desperata. 



C. Tristis, Edw. — This beautiful httle species has been found near 

 here for three seasons. 



C. Relicta, Walk.— Through the kindness of Mr. James Behrens my 

 cabinet contains a specimen of this species taken at Portland, Oregon, 

 one of two captured August 22, 1885. It does not differ materially from 

 our eastern forms, being intermediate between vars. Bianca and Phrynia. 

 This is the first record I have seen of it further west than Illinois and 

 Wisconsin. 



C. Walshii, Edw. — From the material that I have seen, it would 

 seem to me that this ought to be far enough removed ixom Junctura 

 to be at least a variety. The ground color is pretty uniform, and is nearly 

 the same as that of Nebraskce. 



C. Adoptiva, Grote, Delilah, Strecker. — Has been taken near here 

 twice, a single example each time ; and C. Consors once. 



C. Palaeogama, Guen. — Singular freaks in insect life are illustrated 

 in this species. Some seven years ago fifty of these could be taken in 

 the woods in a single afternoon. Since that season scarcely one could be 



