40 CATOCALA COXCUMBENS. 



In Vol. II, Proc. Ent. Soc. of Phila., Mr. W. Saunders, of Canada, thus describes the 

 larva : " leugth, two to two and-a-half inches, onisciforiu. Head flat, dark greyish, intermixed 

 with red. Upper surface dirty brown, with a lightish chain-like dorsal stripe and a very 

 small fleshy protuberance on each side of this strijie on each segment. On ninth segment is a 

 small protubci-ance of a brownish color, and on the eleventh a mark resembling an oblique 

 incision. A thick lateral fringe of short hair close to the under surface. Under surface pink- 

 ish, with a central row of round black spots which are larger about the middle of the body 

 and nmch smaller towards the extremities. Food-plant, willow." 



Habitat. Canada, Eastern and Middle States ; rare in Pennsylvania, but more plentiful 

 in Massachusetts and other New England States. 



This lovely insect is nearer allied to the European C. Pacta than to any American spe- 

 cies ; it is a little larger than Pacta and the color of the abdomen is different, (being rosy in 

 that species,) otherwise it resembles it very closely in most respects. 



I hope this second plate of Catocalidaj Avill meet with the same hearty approval as did 

 the first, (plate III of this work,) and, as I promised in that number, I will, if I live, in due 

 time give figures of every known North American species. 



Anarta Cordigera, Thnbg. — Anarta Luteola, Grote and Eobinson, 



I have compared examples of Anarta Cordigera with the types of Anarta Luteola, in the 

 Musucm of the Am. Ent. Soc, and can find not the slightest diflerence between the two, al- 

 though Grote and Robinson say, in their description* of Luteola, " the differences between 

 the species are perhaps sufficiently great to render a detailed comparison unnecessary," perhaps 

 like the large lettered names on maps and placards, they are so great that no one ever notices 

 them ; in the above instance, after the closest examination, I cannot find a single point that 

 would in the slightest degree indicate a specific distinction. 



*rroc. Ent. Soc, Phila., Vol. IV, p. 493-4, (1865,)— the fig. of Luteola is on Plate III. 



