CATOCALA SERENA. Edwards. 

 PROC. EXT. SOC. PHIL., VOL. II, p. 510. 



( PLATE III, FIG. 11. 9 ) 



Expands 2| indies. 



Head and collar cliestnut brown ; thorax smoky grey ; abdomen brown. 



Upper surface, primaries same grey as thorax M'ith transverse brownish shades , transverse 

 lines narrow but distinct. 



Secondaries deep yellow ; marginal band Indented in middle ; median narrow, irregular 

 and prominently elbowed at centre ; basal hairs brown. 



Under surflice yellow, all the bands pretty heavy ; bases of wings obscured with brown 

 which color more or less shades the whole under surface. 



Habitat. New Yoi-k, Pennsylvania. 



Rare. Mr. Edwards' type is in collection of Mr. Wilt, Philadelphia. I took a single 

 female examples about a mile from Heading, I also received specimens from my good friend 

 Mr. Angus of West-Farms, N. Y., in which locality he captured them. 



I trust this plate of Catocalidjc may prove acceptable ; the coni'usion existing in regard 

 to the nomenclature of the various species is truly wonderful ; I do not think I would be going 

 too far in asserting that there are not over three collections in America in which they are all 

 correctly determined ; this is particularly the case with our typical black species. 



As I either possess or have access to examples of all our known species, I Mill in future 

 numbers of this work illustrate the whole of them, probably every third plate I issue will be 

 of this genus until they or I am exhausted. 



NOTES ON SOME SPECIES. 



In List of Lepidoptera of N. America by Grote and Robinson, Part 1, (1868,) on page 

 VIII, Arctia Speciosissima, Mosch., is incorrect, it should be Arctia Sjjcciosa, Mosch. 



On same page, right below, A. Quenselii, Geycr, and A. Gelida, Mosch., are given as dis- 

 tinct, whereas thev are one and the same, Geyer's name having priority. 



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