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Tiiriously marked with browu, and with a substigmatal brown line; the 

 back of the caterpillar remains hunched in repose. 



Moth. — Thorax light gray, with a .yellowish tiuge; abdomen with the yellowish 

 more marked ; fore-wings with the lines distinct, basal space dark, beyond the trans- 

 verse anterior line light gray often almost white to the reniform spot, beyond dark 

 gray; reuiform spot distinct, the subreniform obsolete M of transverse posterior 

 line hardly suggested ; subterminal white line distinct. Hind wings rather dull yel- 

 low, median baud wanting, marginal baud broad, indistinct, but even on the inner 

 margin, extending to the anal margin. Beueath, wings dull, indistinct, yellowish, 

 fore- wings with the reniform spot black; beyond, an even, narrow, curved black 

 line, also a broad marginal line; hind wings with discal spot, and three even curved 

 bands, two inner and narrow, one marginal and broad. Expands 40 to 45'"'°. Habi- 

 tat Eastern and Southern States. (Hulst.) 



10. Catocala innubens Guen6e. 



The caterpillar is said by Mr. Hulst to feed on the walnut. 



Moth. — Fore-wings rich browu, powdered, with glaucous scales; lines distinct, 

 black; M of transverse posterior line strong; teeth broad, even; reuiform spot 

 brown, annulate with pale white ; subreniform spot pale, often nearly white, small ; 

 at the apex resting in the costa is a large triangular whitish spot. Hind wings red- 

 dish orange; median baud rather broad, quite even. Expands (55 to 70™™. Habitat 

 Eastern, Middle and Western States. (Hulst.) 



C. hinda has broad, darker brown shading from base to apex. 



Yav. flavidaVis Grote has yellow hind wings. 



Var. scintlUans G. & R. has very dark nearly black fore-wings, uniform to the 

 transverse posterior line. 



11. Catocala paleogama Guen^e. 



The caterpillar closely resembles that of G. neogama^ according to Mr. 

 Hulst. 



Moth. — Fore-wings gray, powdered with greenish gray and black scales, and shaded 

 with blackish, and with bright brown in the subterminal space; lines rather broad, 

 distinct; reniform spot rounded, brown or black, indistinct; subreniform spot pale, 

 small ; sinus of transverse posterior line broadly marked, acute, not deep ; teeth of IVI 

 strong. Hind wings dark yellow ; median band narrow, much constricted, reaching 

 the internal margin. Expands 70 to 75""™. Habitat, Eastern, Middle, and Western 

 States. 



Var. phalanga Grote. Fore-wings with the basal space black, a black baud beyond 

 the transverse posterior line, the rest light gray. (Hulst.) 



12. Catocala neogama (Abbot and Smith). 



The caterpillar is said by Guenee to feed on the walnut; it is of a 

 brownish gray color, formed by many longitudinal striae on a light 

 ground; the piliferous points separate as is usual. 



Moth. — Fore-wings light gray, marked within the transverse anterior line, at the 

 reniform spot, and beyond the transverse posterior line with light brown ; all the lines 

 evident, but not always distinct ; M of transverse posterior line produced, sinus large ; 

 basal and subapical dashes generally present. Hind wings yellow, the median band 

 constricted and angulated. Expands 75 to 90™™. Habitat, east of Rocky Mountains 

 and Arizona. C. communis has the hind wings a little darker yellow than the type 

 form. 



Var. snoviana Grote was described from an aberrant and somewhat aborted speci- 

 men from Kansas, with fore-wings much more heavily marked with black. It is with 

 great hesitancy that I regard this as a variety. (Hulst.) 



