22 CATOCALA COCCINATA. 



band not reaching interior margin, apical spot narrow and red ; basal hair greyish, fringe 

 white and grey. 



Under surface, superiors red, inferiors, inner two-thirds same coloi", outer third white ; 

 a black discal lunule from which extends along centre of discal cell almost to base of wing, a 

 black streak. 



Habitat. Pennsylvania. 



This species is of rare occurrence ; the only one 1 ever saw on the wing was the male 

 from which I made my illustration on Plate III, and which I captured a number of years 

 since in some oak woods then near Reading, but the grounds are now in that city, and the noble 

 old trees are replaced by varied and execrable examples of domestic architecture. Mr. Grote's 

 types are in the Mus. of the Am. Ent. Society; several examples also in fine collection of 

 Mr. Wilt, ofPhila. 



CATOCALA CEROGAMA. Guenee. 



SPEC. GEN., VOL. VII, p. 90. 



( PLATE III, FIG. 10. ? ) 



Expands oj inches. 



Thorax above light grey, with brown markings; abdomen brown, beneath yellowish 

 white. 



Upper surface primaries, pale grey of various shades and mottled with brown, transverse 

 lines distinct and dark brown, reniform moderate size, sub-reniform white ; exterior to these 

 in the median space, a dark patch ; two diagonal white spaces, one interior to the reniform 

 and above the sub-reniform, the other interior to the outer half of the transverse posterior 

 line ; fringes brown. 



Secondaries black with a narrow yellow median band of erpial width throughout ; basal 

 part covered with long brown hair beneath which it is yellow ; apical spot and emarginations 

 yellow; fringes white cut with black at the terminations of the nervules. Beneath all wings 

 are yellow ; secondaries with black marginal and median bands. 



Habitat. iSi^ew York, Pennsylvania, ^laryland, Ac. 



By no means a common species although at times occurring in some plenty in particular 

 localities. 



