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Under surface yellow, darkest at and near inner margin of secondaries ; three black bands on primaries, 

 the sub basal and median connected near the inner margin; the two black bands of secondaries extend from 



costa to abdominal margin. tt • i q 



Habitat Middle, Western and Houthern United tetates. , t^, . , ^ i • i 



Is an exceedingly rare species with ns, but occurs more frequently in Georgia and Florida, from which 



latter states I have occasionally received it. 



CATOCALA (X)NS()RS. akbot & smith. 



PhatiFua Consors, l^epid. Georgia, Vol. II, p. 17V, t. 89, !1797i. 

 OUocxiln Oomors, Ouenee, Noct. Ill, 99, (1852i. 



(PLATE IX, FIG. 10, c^.) 



Expands 2V to 2 J inches. . , , , ,, • . 



Head and thorax", above, smoky grev ; abdomen yellowish brown, beneath ye lowish grey. 



Upt^i surface ; primaries dark smoky grey ; transverse lines black, dull, and not deeply dentate ; reni- 



'''"'^:::£l^^^!:Z^ brown hair at base and abdominal margin ; marginal Ixind with three deep 

 indentations interiorly, mesial band very irregular ; the shape of these bands cau.se the w,ng to have a cheq- 

 uered api.earance, one point of the marginal ban.l almost touching another of the mesial, on the disc , fnnges 



^^'"'Undersllrfl'e dusky yellow; three broad black bands on primaries, mesial and marginal bands of sec- 



ondaries much as above. , r i- ; a i i7 *.• ^o„ t \ 



The larva, according to Abbot, is found on the Bastard Indigo (Amorpha Fruticosa L.). 



Habitat. From Marvland to the Gulf. " , ,-,.,.,■ n 



An exceedino-ly rare species, or at least difficult to obtaiu, as it is represented in bu few American col ec- 

 tious the examiTle from which fig. 10 was drawn is in the collection of Mr. Chas. Blake, of Philadelphia 

 welTkno'^ by h!s extensive labours on the N. Am. Mutillid.e,* and to whose uniform goodness I am indebted 

 for innumerable favours, far more than, with my best will, I ever shall be able to repay. 



CATOCJALA NEBULOSA. Edwards. 



S;L]^S;;'«;:ori 'k^::il^'h.. .00., Phila.. Vol. v., p. .., t. 4, (1866,. Orote, Tran. A.. Ent. Soc, Vol. IV, 

 p. 11, (1872). 



(PLATE IX, FIG. 11, 9.) 



Expands 3 to 3^ inches. 



Head and body brown above, and yellow beneath. , , ., i i ir„i. 



Upper surface; primaries, gound color greyish yellow, heavily clouded with maroon or dark reddish 

 brown,Thich has o'n 'fresh exa'm'ples a perceptible^luish sheen especially on that portion f-- he transverse 

 anterior line to the base, which is so dark as to appear almost black ; the transverse ^"t^''^/^"! l"ated 

 equally from its middle upwards to the costa where it is very broad ; transverse posterior line deeply s.nuated , 

 reniform moderately large and doubly annulated ; sub-reniform connected with the transverse posterior Ime 



Secondaries rich yellow; marginal band broad, space between this and the -^^^^'^^ ^^°^ "^^^ T 

 portion of the wing tVom the median band to the base almost entirely covered ^'^h heavy brovvnish hair, 

 giving the wing much the .same appearance as in Cerogama, Guen. ; a yellow apical spot ; fringe 7f ''7^;^^ . 

 ^ Under surfece yellow ; primaries with three purplish black bands, the sub-marginal, ^hie^^ s "^^wes^ 

 and the median, extend from costa to interior margin, the sub-basal reaches only to the sub-median nervure , 



* In the Trani!. Am. Ent. Soc, Vol. Ill, (1871 ). 



