40 CATOCALA CO^X•UMBl:NS. 



In \'ol. J I, Prof. Kilt. Soc. of Pliila., Mr. W. Saunders, of Canada, thus describes the 

 hirva : " Icnjrtli, two to two and-a-half inclies, onisciforra. Head flat, dark greyisli, intermixed 

 with red. r]>iicr surface dirty brown, witli a lightish chain-like dorsal stripe and a very 

 small flcsliv protuberance on each side of this stripe on each segment. On ninth segment is a 

 small protuberance of a brownish color, and on the eleventh a mark resembling an oblique 

 incision. A thick lateral fringe of .short hair close to the under surface. Under surface jMnk- 

 ish, with a central row of round black spots which arc larger about the middle of the body 

 and much smaller towards the extremities. Food-plant, willow." 



Habitat. Canada, Eastern and Middle States; rare in Pennsylvania, but more plentiful 

 in Massachusetts and other Xcw England States. 



This lovely insect is nearer allied to the European C. Pacta than to any American spe- 

 cies; it is a little larger than Pactii and the color of the abdomen is difierent, (being rosy in 

 that species,) otherwise it resembles it very closely in most respects. 



I liope this second plate of Catocalidic will meet with the same hearty approval as did 

 the first, ([)late 111 of this work,) and, as I promised in that number, I ^\■ilI, if I live, in due 

 time give fisjures of every known Xorth American species. 



Anarta Cordigcra, Thnbg. — Anarta Luteola, Grote and Ilobinsou. 



I have compared examples of Anarta Cordigera with the types of Anarta Luteola, in the 

 Musuem of the Am. Ent. Soc., and can find not the slightest difference between the two, al- 

 though Grote and Robinson say, in their description* of Luteola, " the difierenccs between 

 the species arc jwrhaps sufficiently great to render a detailed comparison unnecessary," perhaps 

 like the large lettered names on maps and placards, they arc so great that no one ever notices 

 them ; in the above instance, after the closest examination, I cannot find a single point that 

 would in the slightest degree indicate a specific distinction. 



n'roc. Ent. Soc, I'liila., Vol. IV, p. 493-1, (18G5,)— tlie fig. of Luteola is on Pl.ite III. 



