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segments inclusive, there ia a dull white dot, and one also of a similar character in 

 front of each of the spiracles along the middle segments of the body'; from each of 

 the tubercles throughout there arises a single dark short hair. Spiracles large, oval, 

 dull grayish, faintly encircled with black. Along the sides of the body, close to the 

 under surface, is a thick fringe of short, fleshy-looking hairs, of a delicate pink 

 color. Under surface of a delicate pink, of a deeper shade along the middle, becom- 

 ing bluish towards the margins, with a central row of nearly round, velvety black 

 spots, which are largest from the seventh to eleventh segments inclusive. Anterior 

 segments greenish white, tinted with rosy pink along the middle, with a dull reddish 

 spot at the base and behind each pair of feet. Thoracic feet pale greenish, spotted 

 outside and tipped with black ; abdominal legs dull grayish brown, margined with 

 black. Length 1.60 inches. (Saunders, Can. Ent., vi, 148.) 



Moth. — Fore wings light-gray fawn, dark, almost black, along the inner margin; 

 a basal dash and one at sinus present; a subapical dark shading; outer line fine, 

 strongly deutated to sinus. Hind wings bright red, median band broad, rather even, 

 reaching the anal margin. Expands 60 to 70°im. Habitat, east of the great plains 

 and Texas. 



Var. celia Hy. Edw. median band of hind wings linear. Florida. 



Var. mopsa Hy. Edw. Fore wings nearly uniform brown. 



Var. adriana Hy. Edw. Fore wings nearly uniform fawn drab. 



Var. herodias Streck. Fore wings uniform dark smoky gray ; denticulations of 

 outer line very strong, and thus continued to inner margin. (Hulst.) 



246. Catocala ilia (Cramer). 



The caterpillar of this moth has been reared by Messrs. Koebele, 

 Caulfield, French, and by Thaxter, in Massachusetts, from various spe- 

 cies of oak. The moth is said by Grote to be an exceedingly common 

 and very variable species. It is found from Canada, Maryland, and 

 Virginia southward to the West Indies. Mr. Caulfield states that the 

 caterpillar was fully grown by June 15 at Montreal ; it spun up in a 

 leaf Juue 18 and the moth emerged the latter end of July. Prof. G. 

 H. French gives a detailed account of its early stages in the Canadian 

 Entomologist for January, 1881. 



Larva. — Head heart-shaped, strongly bilobed, pale green, with white blotches, 

 twelve short, black hairs in front, aud near the top of the head there are four small 

 tubercles of a white color, each of which is tipped with a black hair ; head sur- 

 rounded with a broken border of dark streaks. Body with the upper surface greenish 

 gray, with an interrupted dorsal band of delicate blue-gray spots, the whole minutely 

 spotted with black. On the second segment are twelve small, white hairs, four on 

 tourth, fifth and sixth segments, six on the seventh, four on the eighth to twelfth, 

 six on the thirteenth. The sides delicate blue-gray, marbled with spots of green aud 

 black, with a broken lateral band of a green color; spiracles yellowish white, with 

 a black ring; behiiid each is a large wart, tipped with a black hair. A fringe of 

 short, white, fleshy filaments close to the under surface. Body beneath pink, with a 

 row of transverse black spots, larger and darker on the middle segments. Feet and 

 prolegs grayish white, spotted with green and black. Length 2| to 3|™m (Caulfield 

 in part). Koebele states that there is a subdorsal line of slight protuberances, one 

 on each segment from the third segment back. There is also a dark lunule with the 

 horns formed on the eleventh segment. 



Moth. — Fore wings dark cinereous, powdered with glaucous scales and shaded with 

 black. A basal ray. Transverse anterior line geminate. Reniform spot whitish, 

 with a small, black internal ring. Subreniform pale, subquadrate, connected usually 

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