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with the trausverse posterior line. Beyoud the spots the luediaD space is shaded 

 with black. Sometimes the whole wing is shaded with blackish to the transverse 

 posterior line, leaving the reniform as a large white blotch without the auunlus. 

 Again, the wing wants the glaucous scales and the reniform is concolorous or merely 

 shows a few white scales. Hind wings orange-red, with an irregular black median 

 band taperiug to the margin. Basal hairs fuscous. Average expanse of wings 75'"'°. 

 Maryland and Virginia. (Grote.) 



Mr. Hulst remarks that \n var. uxor Gnenee the fore wiugs are brown- 

 gray, the reniform spot white ; in the Californian var. zoe Behr, the 

 hind wings are lighter orange ; in the var. osculata Hulst, from Arizona, 

 the hind wings are clear yellow. C. ilia, he adds, is the most variable 

 of all our species. In some cases the fore wings are strongly mixed 

 with blue. 



247. Catocala epione (Drnry). 



The caterpillar is said by Guenee, on the authority of Abbot's manu- 

 script drawings, to feed on the oak. 



Larva. — Body reddish gray, marbled with bluish gray ; a subdorsal black line 

 interrupted at the middle of each segment : a paler lateral band ; no protuberances; 

 head gray, with two red points. 



Moih. — Fore wings very dark gray; lines heavy; transverse posterior line not 

 strongly angulated, and almost without a sinus ; the reniform spot reddish ; a red- 

 dish band beyond the transverse posterior line, then lighter, often almost white, 

 serrated outwardly. Hind wings black ; fringes pure white. 



248. Catocala vidua (Abbot and Smith). 



According to Abbot this species feeds on the willow, locust, and 

 oilier species of oaks ; Mr. Angus has bred it from the hickory and Mr. 

 Koebele from the walnut. 



Larva. — Greenish gray, with many black lines ; whiter laterally ; slight protuber- 

 ances on each segment; head gray, edged behind with black. 



Moth. — Fore wings with the color of C. retecfa and markings of htctuosa, tbough 

 these are in the present species heavier and more decided; transverse anterior line 

 heavily geminate, connecting half way with the heavy black basal dash ; apical and 

 sinus shading heavy ; trausverse posterior line with |V| very much produced. Hind 

 wings black, slightly gray at base; deep white fringe; in some specimens there is 

 near the anterior margin a faint indication of a white median band. Expands 80 to 

 90mm, Middle, Western, and Southern States. (Hulst.) 



249. Catocala lachrymosa Guenee. 



Said by Mr. Hulst to probably feed on the oak and walnut. 



Moth. — B'ore wings light cinereous, heavily and quite uniformly powdered with 

 black atoms; slight basal dash present; lines fairly strong, but often lost in the 

 black powdering; transverse anterior line often confused and broken; transverse 

 anterior line with teeth medium ; reniform spot brownish ; a brownish baud beyond 

 the transverse posterior line. Hind wings black, fringe white, black at end of veins. 

 Expands?.") to 85'"'". Lower Middle and Western States and southward. Var. Uliilume 

 ditfersin being less strongly powdered with black, and in having [both J the lines more 

 distinct. Var. selica French has a trausverse anterior line inwardly and transverse 

 anterior line outwardly, having a black band across the wing. Var. paalina Hy. 

 Edw., fore wings black to the transverse posterior line. 



