1864.] 



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line distinct, uniformly black and of equal width, with two nearly equal 

 sized, moderately prominent and acute teeth, sometimes ( 9 ) followed 

 by a brown band ; subterminal line geminate, indistinct, with an ante- 

 rior greyish band in the 9 . Posterior wings yellow, of a paler shade 

 than in C. palaeogama^ and C phakuKja ; median baud broad, hardly 

 constricted on the disc, slightly tapering to internal margin. Base of 

 the wing very pale brownish yellow ; internal margin clothed with pale 

 brownish yellow hair, internal fringe cinereous, terminal band broad, 

 black, leaving a yellow space at external angle, distinctly terminating 

 before anal angle. Under surface pale luteous, pale ochraceous brown- 

 ish along external margins, orange-colored at base of posterior wings, 

 median bands black, slightly iridescent; legs brownish. Exp. 2y^„ to 

 3 inches. Coll. Eut. Soc. Philadelphia. 



Hah. .Middle and Eastern States. Common. 



Differs from C. palxogani'i. Guenee, by the more acutely toothed 

 transverse posterior line on the anterior wings, which connects with the 

 subreniform spot, by the larger ordinary spots and the absence of the blu- 

 ish-grey color of the median space, by the hardly constricted, straighter 

 median band of the posterior wings and paler basal shade ; the anterior 

 wings are not produced at the apex and the coloi'ing of the under sur- 

 face is paler than in C. paJseogama. 



Catocala Clintonii, no v. sji. Plate 3, fig. 4. 9 • 



Anterior wings uniformly pale greyish, faintly tinged with greenish 

 except along the costa. Basal half line black, distinct, joining inferi- 

 orily a broad blackish streak which extends in a straight line from the 

 base of the wing to the transverse anterior line which latter it joins at 

 its center. Transverse anterior line distinct, preceded by a lighter 

 shade, with a subcostal tooth, hardly undulate, with a single dentation 

 on vein 1. Median space with a slight pale brownish tinge anterior to 

 the reniform spot and suffusing the sub-reniform spot. Reniform spot 

 moderate, oval, pale, with a whitish ringlet, surrounded by a black 

 costal streak; sub-reniform rounded, pale brownish, ringed with a brown 

 line, open posteriorily. Transverse posterior line sub-dentate, with two 

 prominent teeth, broadly marked with brownish black at its last inflex- 

 ion at internal margin. Subterminal line greyish, hardly indicated ; 

 terminal space streaked with blackish along veins 2. and 7. the rest 

 of the veins in the terminal space greyish sprinkled with blackish 



