AMERICAN LEPIDOPTERA. 11 



a. Catocala phalanga, Grote. 



£ 9 . — Primaries paler than in type, pale greenish grey, whitish before the 

 reniform on median space. Base of the wing suffused with black and the nar- 

 row subterminal space entirely black between the t. p. and the white marked 

 sub-terminal line. Reniform variable as in the type. 



30. Catocala liabilis, Grote. 



£ <j) . — Smaller and slighter than C. palaeogama, of the same general habit, 

 with paler more evenly colored primaries. Fore wings pale grey with a green- 

 ish tint. All the lines black, narrow, often indistinct. Basal half-line and t. a. 

 line as in C. palaeogama. T p. line with less prominent teeth, and differing by 

 being connected with and encircling the inconspicuous sub-reniform, which is 

 usually open, a, little paler than the ground color of the wing, moderate, sub- 

 pyriform, excavated outwardly. The sub-median sinus is prominent and more 

 broadly marked : the t. p. line followed by a faint whitish shade. The s. t. 

 space is inconspicuously brownish ; s. t. line faint, preceded by a whitish shade 

 much as in C. palaeogama. Terminal interspaceal points evident. Secondar- 

 ies dark yellow, a little paler than C. palaeogama; bands similar, the median 

 a little broader, the marginal proportionally a little narrower than in C. palaeo- 

 gama. Thorax pale grey, concolorous with primaries; thoracic lines sub-obso- 

 lete. Expanse 60 to 65 mm. 



A number of coincident specimens examined from Pennsylvania. 



31. Catocala consors, Guence. 

 Phalaena consors, Smith. 



^ 9 • — A- species of moderate size, a little stouter than C. habilis ; the orna- 

 mentation of the primaries recalling C. epione. Forewings dark ashen, pulve- 

 rulent, concolorous. Lines black and usually broad and evident. T. a. line 

 outwardly oblique, waved, without costal tooth. Eeniform large, with a nar- 

 row internal brown annulus, excavated externally. Subreniform small, nearly 

 fused with reniform, pyriform, whitish or pale, evident. T. p. line, with a 

 single not very prominent tooth opposite the cell, below which it is very moder- 

 ately waved or dentated ; submedian sinus moderate. Beyond it the s. t. is ob- 

 scure brown, and then a broad greyish shade precedes the inconspicuous sub- 

 terminal line. Hind wings bright deep yellow; median band twice constricted, 

 fiexuous ; deep corresponding excavations are formed in the external band, 

 while the yellow interspace between the bands is narrower than usual. Be- 

 neath the purplish-brown terminal shades are very broad on both wings. Ex- 

 panse 60 to 63 mm. 



Georgia. (Ridings.) 



32. Catocala ponclerosa, G. & R. 



Catocala jwnderosa, G. & R. Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. Vol. 6, Plate 4, fig. 2. (1866). 



Catocala nebulosa, Edwards. 



% $? • — A fi ne stout bodied species with somewhat of the habitus of C. neo- 

 gama. Anterior wings greyish cream color, variable in depth of tint, much 

 shaded with deep brown, transvere lines black. Basal space to t. a. line en- 

 tirely suffused superiorly with blackish-brown. Median space usually pale or 

 quite light, when it contrasts with basal and terminal coloration quite strongly. 

 Reniform bisannulate, obliterate, concolorous. Subreniform small, entirely 

 enclosed but connected with the t. p. line, distinctly margined, concolorous. 

 T. p. line black, distinctly defined, slightly dilated before internal margin and 



