CATOCALA SUBNATA. 35 



which is one of Grotcs' great points of distinction between the two species, as he says in liis 

 description* of Subnata tlie " Siib-reniform large, open, formed bv a deep sinus of the t 11 

 lino, t " 



The type is in the Museum of the American Ent. Society. 



CATOCALA NEOGAMA. Abbot & S.Mrrn. 

 Lepid. Georgia, Vol. II, p. 175, PI. 85*. 

 Guenee, Spec. Gen., Vol. VII, p. 96. 

 Duncan'.s Naturalists' Library, Vol. \U, p. 202, PI. 20, fig. 1. 



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(PLATE V, FIG. 4 J", 5 ?. 



Expands 3 inches. 



Thorax above, grey ; abdomen brownish yellow ; beneath pale yellow. 



Upper surface, primaries grey, with brown shades, markings dark brown, varying in dis- 

 tinctness in different examples; rcniform, which is rather small and inconspicuoas, is sur- 

 rounded by a brown double line ; sub-reniform small and not connected with the transverse 

 posterior line. 



Secondaries dark yellow, with irregular marginal and median bands which do not extend 

 to the abdominal margin ; apical sjjot and fringes yellow. 



Under surface yellow, the black bands narrow and irregular. 



The larva is figured by Abbot, who states that it feeds ou the black American AValnut 

 (Juglaus Nigra) ; it is brown in color, with dark spots on the sides and two dark lines near 

 the back, and "resembles the color of the bark so much as not to be discernable from it. " 



One of our commonest species found througiioat the Atlantic States. 



CATOCALA CLINTONIL Grote. 



I'roc. Am. Ent. Soc. Phil. Vol. Ill, p. 89, PI. Ill, Fig. 4, $ (1861.) 



( PLATE V. FIG. G. ? ) 



Expands 2 inches. 



Thorax whiteish grey ; abdomen yellow. ^, 



Upper surface, primaries very pale grey, tinged a trifle in the centre and on the exterior 

 and interior margins with blueish ; basal and other transverse lines fine but tolerably distinct, 



•'Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. Vol. IV, p. 10. 

 tTransveise posterior line. 



