CATOCALA SrBXATA. :35 



wliich is one of Grotcs' great points of disfinction between tlie two species, as he savs in his 

 description* of Subnata tlie " Snb-reniforiii large, open, formed bv a deep sinus of (lie t. ]). 

 line, t " 



Tlic tviie is in tlic Museuiu of tiie American Ent. Socictv. 



CATOCALA NEOGAMA. Ap.t^ot & Smith. 

 Lepid. Georgia, ^'ol. 11, ji. ITo, PI. SS. 

 Guenee, Spec. Gen., Vol. VII, p. 9(>. 

 Duncan's Naturalists' Library, Vol. XU, p. 202, PI. 2<i, fig. 1. 



(PLATE V, FIG. 4 c?, 5 ?.) 



Exi)ands o inches. 



Tliorax above, grey ; abdomen brownisii yellow ; beneath pale yellow. 



Upper surface, primaries grey, with brown shades, markings dark brown, varying in dis- 

 tinctness in different examples; rcniform, which is rather small and inconspicuous, is sur- 

 rounded by a brown double line; sub-reniform small and not connected with the transverse 

 posterior line. 



Secondaries dark yellow, with irregular marginal and median bands which do not extend 

 to the abdominal margin ; apical spot and fringes yellow. 



Under surface yellow, the black bands narrow and irregular. 



The larva is figured by Abbot, who states that it feeds on the black American Walnut 

 (.Juglans Nigra); it is brown in color, with dark spots on the sides and two dark lines near 

 the back, and "resembles the color of the bark so much as not to bo discernable from it. " 



One of our commonest species found throughout the Atlantic States. 



CATOCALA CLINTONII. Grote. *- 



I'roo. Am. Ent. 8oo. Pliil. \o\. Ill, p. 89, I'l. Ill, Fig. 4, ? ( 18('.I. ) 



( PLATE V. FIG. G. ? ) 



Expands 2 inches. 



Thorax whitcish grey ; abdomen yellow. 



Upper surface, primaries very pale grey, tinged a trifle in the centre and on the exterior 

 and interior margins with blueish ; basal and other transverse lines fine but tolerably di:^tinct, 



"Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. Vol. IV, p. 10. 

 fTransveise posterior line. 



