]66 Journal New York Entomological Society, [Voi. xvii. 



CATOCALA HERODIAS STRECKER, 

 AT LAKEHURST, N. J. 



By Chas. E. Sleight, 

 Ramsey, N. J. 



Two specimens of this species of Catocala were captured at Lake- 

 hurst in July, 1902, by Mr. Louis H. Joutel and Mr. Wm. T. Davis, 

 as recorded in this Journal for June, 1903, page 112. Though the 

 insect has been much sought for at Lakehurst since that time, none 

 has been captured. 



It was my good fortune to detect two larv?e of this Catocala 

 among the top-most branches of scrub oaks (Qucrciis nana) at the 

 place above mentioned on the twenty-fourth of May, 1909. The 

 weather was wet and cool, which may have some bearing on the larvae' 

 having been found in the position described. They so closely re- 

 sembled in color, etc., the slender branches of the oak on which I 

 found them that they appeared to be excrescences of the branch itself 

 i;nd I called Mr. Davis to show him the malformation. It was not 

 luitil we had touched it that we were aware we had to do with a 

 larva. I took these larvae home and, while both reached the pupal 

 stage, one died. The healthy one pupated June i and emerged July 6. 



Now that the food plant is definitely known, other specimens of 

 this rare insect can, no doubt, be collected more easily. 



