CATOCALA MULIERCULA. 7& 



Under surface yellow, darkest at and near inner margin of secondaries; three black bands O" Fi">arie8^ 

 the sub basal an.l median Connected near the inner margin ; the two black bands of secondaries extend f.oot 



oosta to abdominal margin. ,, • i o . 



VTiiliif'it Middle Western and Southern United Otates. , ,^, . , /. u- i 



"an cl;JlTngl.y'nu-e species with us, but occurs more frequently in Georgia and Florida, from which 



latter states I have occasionally received it. 



CATOCALA (X)NS()RS. aubot & smith. ^^ 



Phalmm Con-wrs, Lepiil. Georgia, Vol. II, p. 177, t. 89, (1797j. 

 auocala Oornors, Guenee, Noct. Ill, 99, (l«r)2). 



(PLATE IX, FIG. 10, d"-) 



Expands 21- to 2i inches. i n • i 



Held ind thorax' above smoky Rrey ; abdomen yellowish brown, beneath yellowisii grey. 



Slier s^-te;pVimL-ies dark smoky grey; transverse lines black, dull, and not deeply dentate ; reni- 



"^""^SSe^^tir^Si:"^?!!; brown hair at base and abdominal margin ; marginal l.nd with three d^ 

 indeii,",' inteHorly mesial band very irregular ; the shape of these bands cause the wi„g „ have a heq- 

 uercd appearance, one point of the marginal band almost touching another of the mesial, on the disc , binges 



^''"^'udersllrfie dusky yellow; three broad black bands on primaries, mesial and marginal bands of sec- 



ondaries much as above. , t i- , . i w *.-„„„ t \ 



The larva, according to Abbot, is found on the Bastard Indigo (Araorpha Frutico.sa i..). 



Habitat From Marvland to the Gulf. , . i , i- a ■ ii 



A exeJedineWv rare species, or at least difficult to obtain, as it is represented in bu few American collec- 

 tions the examiTle from which fig. 10 was drawn is in the collection of Mr. Chas. Blake, of Philadelphia 

 weiTknll b)' hfs extensive labours on the N. Am. Mutilli.ke,* and to who.se uniform goodness I am indebted 

 for innumerable favours, far more than, with my best will, I ever shall be able to repay. 



%, 



CATO("ALA NEBIILOSA. KmvAHi.s. - 



Vroc. Ent Soc, Phila., Vol 1 1, p. 510, (1S64l ^^^^^ ^,^ j,.,,^ j,^. Vol. IV, 



Oikicala Ponderosa, Grote <fe Robinson, 1 roc. h-nt. hoc, fhUa., vol. \ i, 1'. -3, u ■», v^o" ) > 



11, (18721. 



(PLATE IX, FIG. 11, ?.) 



Expands 3 to 3^ inches. 



Head and body brown above, and yellow beneatii. , , ., i i „u]:oi, 



Unpe/surfaee primaries, gound color greyish yellow, heavily clouded with maroon or dark reddish 

 brow^Thicliharon 'fresh exam'ples a pereeptfbl/bluish sheen especially on that VO^^^onJror^U^r^ 

 anterior line to the base, which is so dark as to appear almost black ; the t'''^^^^^^,,^;""; '•"^,;^,^'^ 

 equally from its middle upwards to the costa where it is very broad ; transverse P^^f ''^'J''^^^^ •^'J'^? f ' 

 renifoi-m moderately large and doubly annulated; sub-reniform connected ^''f^^e transverse p^^^^^^^^^ 



Secondaries rich yellow; marginal band broad, space between this and the '"^f '^" '^XoTn T W^i^^ 

 portion of the wing from the median band to the base almost entirely covered 7^ .^^^^.e vlllmv 

 giving the wing much the same appearance as in Cerogama Guen. ; a yellow apical spot ; fi.nge T™ 



Under surface yellow • i)rimaries with three purplish black bands, the sub-marginal, which is nairowest, 

 and tlirmedian extlnd from' eosta to interior ma/gin', the sub-basal reaches only to the sub-median nervure ; 



* In the Trans. Am. Ent. Soc, Vol. Ill, (1871 ). 



