74 CATOCALA ULTRONIA. 



Secondaries rod, grevisli near the costa ; mesial band irregnlar in width and extends to inner margin ; a 

 black discal Innc joins tlie mesial ; fringes white and black. 



Habitat. Canada, and tlie United States generally east of the Mississippi. 



A common and very j)rctty species which, by the peculiar appearance of the primaries, can be easily 

 known tVoin all others. 



V (CATOCALA I'lATRIX. ckot.. 



Proc. Knt. Soc, I'hila., Vol. Ill, )i. 88, t. Ill, (1864;. 

 I'loc. Eiit. Soc, Phila., Vol. Ill, p. 532, (1864). 

 TraiiF. .\ni. KnI. Soc, Vol. IV, ).. 10, (1872). 



( PLATE IX, FIG. 8, c^.) 



Ex|)anils 2| to 3 inches. 



Head and thorax brown, with darker lines; abdomen yellowish brown. Beneath pale ochraceou.'i. 



l'|iper surface ; ]>rimares brown, varied with darker ba.sal, median and sub-apical shades ; transverse lines 

 black ; rcniforni large and enclosed in a dark shade; sub-reniform open and pale, from this to the costa, in- 

 terior to the rcniform, is a paler space. 



Sei'ondarics yellow, base clothed with brownish hair; bands rather broad, but narrowing towards their 

 termination at the abdominal margin. 



Under surface* of all wings pale ochraceous, darker at interior margins; primaries have three transverse 

 bands, the sub-basal and mesial black and distinct, the marginal pale, much suffused with yellow, especially 

 towarils the exterior margin ; on .sccondai'ies the mesial band is irregular in width, narrow towards the costa, 

 broader on di.sc, and is terminated some distance from inner margin ; marginal band darkest near the anal 

 angle and becomes almost obsolete as it ncars the apex and costa. 



Habitat. New England, Middle and Southern States. 



A rather i^ommon species, Itelonging to the same group as Subnata and Neogama, in company with which 

 it occurs in manv localities. 



CATOCALA MULIERCULA. Guenkf. 



Noct., Vol. Ill, 97, (1852). 



/W- 



(PLATE IX, FIG. 9, (f.) 



Ex|)ands 2^ to 2J inches. 



Head and IkkIv dark brown above; beneath yellowish grey. 



Upper surface; primaries dark, rich reddish brown, with none of the markings very distinct; reniform 

 Bmall ; sub-reniform pale, space immediutcly interior to the reniform also a little paler; transverse lines black. 



Secondaries dee|) yellow clothed with brown hair at base and abdominal margin; marginal and mesial 

 bands extend to interior margin ; fringe blackish, except near apex, where it is white. 



*The original description of ilic muier Kiirf:iue, and still more, tlie second one by the same author, which followed it a few month.i 

 later, would lead on^to e.\pect, instead of a very ordinary looking Calocala, some gorgeous insect rivaling the richness of Erasmia or 

 Etenisia The tirsi description says; " I'nder surface pale lutcou.s, pale ochraceous brownisli along external margins, orange coloured at 

 base of posterior wings, median bunds black, slightly iridescent." Proc. Ent. Sos., Phil., Ill, 89. The second des;'rip[ion, in regard to 

 which the author says, " 1 allow the present description to supersede the one given by me on p.ige 88 of the present volume," is as follows : 

 "Under surface of both p.iir pale grayish uchriccous, iridescent, irrorate b.asally and subiliscally tinged with an orange shade; anterior 

 wings crossed by three, posterior pair by two black transverse bands." Proc. Ent. .Soc, Phil., Ill, 533. In the third description of this 

 species, in Trans. Ani. Ent. Soc, IV, 111, all the splendour of descj-iption is transferred to tlie upper surface, the author doubtless con- 

 sidering thai he liad conscientiously performed his duty towards the underside in the preceding two descriptions, allows it "presently" 

 to rest in peace. 



