("ATOCAT.A INSOLAIULIS. Glenee. 



Spec. Gen., Vol. \'ir, ].. Oi. 

 (PLATE V, FIG. 1, ^■') 



Kxpaiuls 3 iiiflic:?. 



Thorax, above, dark grey ; alKloincii blackii:h ; beneath wliite. 



Upper surface, primaries greyisli wliite, powdered witli minute brown .scales ; the trans- 

 verse lines arc black; rcniform small and surrounded by a brown aunulus ; a black aj>ical 

 dash ; interior margin shaded with black ; fringes dark grey. 



Secondaries entirely black, with black fringes. 



Under surface has bases of all wings white, rest black, with exception of slight indications 

 of narrow white bands, most noticeable on the secondaries. 



Habitat. Xcw York, Pennsylvania, N. Jersey and Maryland. 

 Easy enough to distinguish from the other species by the dark shading of interior margin 

 of upper surface of primaries, and the black fringes of secondaries ; it is a slighter built 

 insect than either Yiduata, Laehrymosa or Desperata, to none of which does it bear any 

 particular resemblance when placed side by side. This may rank among our rarer species as 

 nowhere has it been found in any plenty. 



CATOCALA DESPEEATA. Guenee. 



Spec. Gen., Vol. VII, p. 'Jo. 



rhaliona Vidua. Abbot & Smitli Lcpkl., Georgia, Vol. II, p. 181, PI. 91. 



(PLATE y, FIG. 2, (f.) 



Expands 3 inches. 



Head and thorax above, light grey, with distinct dark lines ; abdomen blackish brown, 

 beneath dirty white. 



Upper surface, primaries light grey; transverse anterior Hue double, black, and, as well 

 as the transverse posterior line, very distinct and Avell defined ; rcniform moderately large, 

 oval, and surrounded by a double line ; a black dash, broken in the middle, runs from base to 

 sub-rcniform ; the usual black sub-apical dash, from which a dark shade passes to the rcniform 

 and from thence inwards and upwards to the costa ; sub-terminal line joined inwardly with 



