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UiifiK-f (louhls wliellicr I'reitsclike or Du]h)1icIi(^I riglilt'uUy regarded this 

 as a Suiilh-Eiiropeaii species, and hy Staudiuger (Catalog) it is not mentioned 

 as a European moth. 



AspiLATES DissiMir ARIA Giient'e. 



Eraslria dinsimilaria Hubn., Samnil. Exot. Si'biii., bd. 1, I'-'OO. 



Catopyrrha disnimihiria Hiibu., Verz., :iOI, 181S. 



Jspihiltx dissimilariu Ghpu., I'hal., ii, 182, lfr>7. 



Catopun-ha dhsimildria Walk., Lep. llet. Br. Mus., xxiv, 1004, 1^()2. 



f) c? and 2 9. — Head pale l)n)\vn in front. Pal[ii yellow. Body and 

 wings bright eitron-yellow, withont any markings above, but usually with 

 three broad, dusky, slightly-curved l)ands on the fore wing, one t)asal band 

 more curve*! than the others: two or three dark blotches just l)eyon(l l)ut 

 adjoining the outer line on the posterior lialf of the wing; both wings .slightly 

 speckled with tine dark scales. Hind wing with two faint, straight sliades 

 quite near together and parallel. Fringe pink yellowish at inner angle and 

 along the inner edge. 



Two females differ in the strigne and specks and bands on the fore wings 

 (none on hiiul wings) being dull pink. Male antennae granite-gray, in the 

 female white, witii scattered, dark s|iecks above. Beneath, Ijright ochreous- 

 yellow; both wings crossed by two nearly parallel, broad, |)ink shades, with 

 tine, scattered, dull-pink scales over the wing. Sometimes the inner band 

 Ijcneatii is nearly obsolete, leaving large jiink discal dots, and whole under 

 surface is suffused with pink, and the l)ody is pinkish on the sides. 



Length of ])0(ly, J, ().5r)-0 GO, 9, 0.50; ti)re wing," <?, 0.70-0.75, 9, 

 0.72; expanse of wings, l.,'i5-1.50 inches. 



Albany, New York, June 29 ; West Virginia, 3105, July 7 (Lintner); 

 Illinois (Clemens); Georgia (Le Conte, Grote, Harris Coll., IMus. Bost. Soc. 

 Nat. Hist.); Texas, May 3-2;5 (Beifragc, Mus. Peab. Acad. 8c.); .Maryland 

 (81 ration, Mus. Comp ZoJil.); Long L-<land, N. Y., July 2 (Graef). 



This species varies greatly, but may always l)e recognized liy the bright- 

 yellow color of the wings and the pink fringe, and dusky band al)ov(^ (when 

 l)rcsent), and beneath by the broad pink lines and suffused pink tint. 



Hiibuer represents the male above with but one (outer) common band 

 and a costal spot, the rudinu'ut of the middle line. In the female, the three 

 l)ands are present on llie fore wings and one on the hind wings; the inner 

 l)an(l only extending li-(Mn the costa to the median vein. The under side of 



