^^ CATOCALA XEBULOSA. 



none of these han.ls are ..onneeted witli each other. On secondaries the mesial an,l marginal bands extend to 

 aixlmnmal margin. Fringes on all wings vellow. ^ 



Habitat. Middle, and Western States to the Mississippi ; rather rare 

 fK«n " ,"'V'«"''»' description of this species we have another inslar.ce of h.nv utterly valueless aye worse 



t;^ ^^t^iri^\ '^r^ --^-"P-^d wi^'" ^^r^' ^^'- ^^- "■ K^wards-- description l/proc 

 ll^nt. Nk., 1 hila., 1864,) s better than nme-tenths of such things generally are, and, moreover is written in 



recogni/u that Mess ,s. Grote * Robinson re-described this, one of the largest of our Catocahe and one so 



.ronuncn ly unlike all others, as a nevv^species, and even made remarks comparative concerning hdiftrre„'^ 



h hlllo 7l ^f"'osa and then- Ponderosa, but I ha.i belter .p.otc their own words literally and in ?ul? 



^ Fd d '",'■ n*; •'' '''■■^'''•'I/'l"" ■■ " ^''■'-'^•^^ specimens examined. Resembles the dcscriptioJ of C mu- 



W Fd uds but ddiers ,n several important particulars, the color of the ordinary .spots, conformation of the 



"ot'liih';: t'll n "" '■ ";";'"' ^'''^ f""'r'^^"1 "^'^ ^^^^ ^''^"^'•'^' -^-^ °f "-- - ^he upper surceleem 

 to be .l.neient, u iile some of he minor details, such as the color of the scales clothing the nervules etc wil^ 

 not apply properly to ( PonrJerom, nobis."* I believe Mr. W. H. Edwards publisid no ." es't ncH a 

 he cared nothing about ,t, or ,t may be that their de.seription was as unintelligible to him as 1 s wa 't them 

 for their, wa.s a third longer and infinitely more abstruse and grandiose, and, in consequence he n.y not have 

 been aware of the identity of his Nebulosa and their " Ponderosa, nobis." Six yearriater Mr Grote a4in 

 des<-ribe. it un.ler the name of ondero^, giving Xebulo.saas a synonym ; after hite hniea deJcripUo cSes 

 tlH fo low ng (,,uoted ,n full ) : " Mr. Edwards compares the .secondaries quite wrongly with those of C CeT 

 gama,, which C. Ponderosa in nowise j-esembles. The specific name cho.sen by Mr. Edwanls Ind .'iln-ady 

 fr\rf^:"'''''V'\ '^\' '^'"''.^; t by this we understand that he has at last becainc^i c i le vi the 

 fact that Nebulosa, Edwds., and Ponderosa, Grote & R., are the same; but in this instance i a ™ he 



law of priority must succumb in order that the G. & R. may still obtain, at all events the o'fb" we e that 



h t:"t"bu'll- f'^'^r'" "'"'h'' " ^"^^'"^^° •^^"^"^■'^'^' ''"^ t-'"^ °^ ^vnonymy would be ■;-nov«fom 

 the gieat bulk of X American Heteroccres. No! Ponderosa must stand because Nebulosi " had a. -eX 

 been iKsed hve tin.es in t e family/' Now, how has it been used five times? it irbeen a pi "d to n K 



feLU? S in' i;;^t;!'2 '' ^'"''"'^f ^* H ^ Taeniocampa,tt the latter, however \s Nebulosu^.ot 

 i\cDuio.sa, ami lu the=e hve the name only holds for one, Mamestra Nebulosa, Jliifna-el • as retrards the others 



&;:/'Hi;f?'";;;joy;;l'x Yr rf r '^^^r^^^^ «p-- ^i-e con.;^etiorEe:1:LmS 



Eri st .^ rio i;.^^^ U ;^ebulosa, Edwds. is about as intimate as between Papilio Philenor, L,,tt and 



o w S ^^^' ■" ''- "' '''"■' '•^.^^'"'^'^^'".'^h other about as much as do those twodiurnals. Mr. ctote's 

 ouuvioid. will, however, support me in retaining Mr. Edwar.ls' prior name of Nebulosa fbr he savs Hn 



Eu'idll.'""""- ''Tn' ?■ ^^rr^"^^ ""''■' --^S^-^ *° ^'- «1-"- -"-. tiis "Seady usedT/tie 

 Wii.die for a species of Hadena. It has been hitherto the custom to reject such names, but th . «liould not 



aff h'fo.:; ;r;"n'N E ^^TT'^T' l'"? ■/ r 'r^^'; '' eonfusion."||||' The Hadena alhKled to i a sm 1 

 tra NYl 1 hili^.: r ' ^^':'^^"'^f • ^'f^'^'^ ^»' northern Scotland; it is a little smaller than Mames- 

 but H 1 ulis ff ^ e7 n ^'V-T''"' ^••^^"^"'^ secondaries; its true name, however, is not H. Marmorata, 

 t^rl- /^^^"''"'"1 ."'« ft"-""-^' t'tle was bestowed on it by Dr. Herricli-Schafrer much la er ■ but in either case 

 to object to a species of the large, brilliant, semi-Geomctrid genus Catocala, occupyin.. a StilTthe ter 



*Piw. Knt. .Soc, I'liila., \(,1. \'l, p. 23, (1866) 



teen ^.l^llh^lX: iLlilHr .nLi^ Enl'^SS'^ol'I^T ^^t^^^^^ '^ ^^""'"^^ '" ^^ ""™^='-^' "^ '-"'^'^^ '^^^^ "'^ 

 J Irai.s. Ani. Kut. So,.., Vol. IV, ,,. 12, iJan., 1872). ' * ' •' 



i Ajrn.t.s I)«.,n., HmI, 4.-^: N,M„m. Hub., 402, Sam. Eur. Schmett. 

 II Maiiioslni >eljiilos:i. iliifiKiKC'l, Berlinisches Ma<r Vnl TFI 4li) n7R7\. d- i i^ 



ttS;:t;5'yi;:vK;;.^:'i,::^.'^:;„«^^^ w.u^, Naturforsc., xm, „. 29. (1779,. 



tt Linnaeus, Mantissa, I, p .5;i.i, (1771) °'' ' ' *"*' '•"^'^- ^"^"^'"^ Hawoith, Lep. Bnttauica, p. 120, (1803-1820). 



|2Menelrie,s Cat Mus., .Si. Petersburg, Lep. I, p. 73, (1855). 



||| Cjrote, J rans. Am. Kut. Soc, Vol. IV, pr7, (1872). 



n Hadena Lxul.>,, Lefebvre, Ann. .Soc. Ent. Fr., 392, (1836). Marmorata. Herrich-SchKtTer 



