CATOCALA SERENA. Edwards. 

 PEOC. ENT. SOC. PHIL., VOL. 11, p. 510. 



( PLATE III, FIG. 11. 9 ) 



Expands 2j inches. 



Head and collar chestnut brown ; thorax smoky grey ; abdomen brown. 



Upper surface, primaries same grey as thorax with transverse brownish shade-s , transverse 

 lines narrow but distinct. 



Secondaries deep yellow ; marginal band indented in middle; median narrow, irregular 

 and prominently elbowed at centre ; basal hairs brown. 



Under surface yellow, all the bands pretty heavy ; bases of wings obscured with brown 

 which color more or less shades the whole under sui'face. 



Habitat. New York, Pennsylvania. 



Rare. Mr. Edwards' type is in collection of Mr. Wilt, Philadelphia. I took a single 

 female examples about a mile from Reading, I also received specimens from my good friend 

 Mr. Angus of West-Farms, N. Y., in which locality he captured them. 



I trust this plate of Catocalid» may prove acceptable ; the confusion existing in regard 

 to the nomenclature of the various .species is truly wonderful ; I do not think I would be going 

 too far in asserting that there are not over three collections in America in which they are all 

 correctly determined ; this is particularly the case with our typical black species. 



As I either possess or have access to examj^les of all our known .species, I mIU in future 

 numbers of this work illustrate the whole of them, probably every third plate I issue will be 

 of this genus until they or I am exhausted. 



NOTES ON SOME SPECIES. 



In List of Lepidoptei-a of N. America by Gi-ote and Robinson, Part 1, (1868,) on page 

 VIII, Arctia Specioslssima, Mosch., is incorrect, it should be Arctia Speeiosa, Mosch. 



On same page, right below, A. Quenselii, Geyer, and A. Gelida, Mosch., are given as dis- 

 tinct, whereas they are one and the same, Geyer's name having priority. 



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