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CATOCALA INSOLABILIS. Glenei. 



Spec. Gen., Vol. VIF, p- 9'- 



(PLATE V, FIG. 1, (f) 



Expands 3 inclics. , , ., 



Thorax, above, dark grey ; abdomen blacki.h ; beneath ^vh.te. 



Upper surface, primaries greyish white, powdered witli nunute brown scales; tie trans- 

 ver..c lines are black; rcniform small and surrounded by a brown annulus; a blaek apical 

 da.«h ; interior margin shaded with black ; fringes dark grey. 



Secondaries entirely blaek, with black fringes. p v i . • r *• ^ 



Under surface has bases of all wings white, rest black, with exc^pt.on oi slight ind.cat.on. 

 of narrow white bands, most noticeable on the secondaries. 



Habitat. New York, Pennsylvania, N. Jersey and Maryland. 

 Easy enough to distinguish from the other species by the dark shading _ot intenor margin 

 of upper surface of primaries, and the black fringes of secondaries ; it is a slighter built 

 hsTt' ban either Yiduata, Lachrymosa or Desperata, to none of which does it bear a.^ 

 particular resemblance when placed side by side. This may rank among our rarer species as 

 nowhexe has it been found in any plenty. 



CATOCALA DESPEKATA. Guenee. 



Spec. Gen., Vol. VII, p. So. 



Phaliona ViJin. Abbot & Smith LepUl., Georgia, Vol. II, p. 181, PI- 01. 



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(PLATE V, FIG. 2, (f .) 



Sti'S^'above, light grey, with distinct daric lines ; abdomen blackish brown, 



as the transverse losterior line; very distinct and well defined; rcniform modei^tely large, 

 oval and .urrounded by a double line; a blaek dash, broken in the middle, runs ftom base to 

 !ub re'fo m • the usual black sub-apical dash, from which a dark shade passes to the x^nifonn 

 Tod from tTeiKC inwards and upwards to the costa ; sub-terminal line joined inwardly with 



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