48 INSECTS INJURIOUS TO FORESL AND SHADE TREES. 
flying at night. It is one of our largest moths, expanding from five to 
six inches, and is dull ocherous-yellow, with a large transparent eye- 
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like spot in the middle of each wing. It is not common enough to be 
destructive. 
48. Catocala fratercula Grote and Robinson. 
Order LEPIDOPTERA; family NOCTUID®. 
Living on the live oak in early spring in Florida, remaining in the pupa state two 
weeks. (A. Koebele, Bull. Brooklyn Ent. Soe. I, p. 44.) 
49, THE SINGLE-DOTTED PARAPHIA. 
Paraphia wnipunctaria Haworth. 
Order LErIpOPTERA; family PHALNIDE. 
Eating the leaves early in June, a gray span worm 1.40 inch long, sprinkled with 
blackish dots and short lines, its head and neck a little thicker than the body, each 
ring with a small squarish white spot above on its hind edge and with two blackish 
parallel lines on each side of this spot. 
This moth ranges from New England to Texas; it is said by Fitch to 
feed on the oak, and by Abbot (in Guenée) to live on the “elm, oak, 
cournouiller,” &e. The Amilapis triplipunctata of Fitch is undoubtedly 
synonymous with Haworth’s species, originally described as an English 
species. 
The moth.—Of a uniform clear fawn-color, without the usual spots and speckles 
present in other species of the genus; a basal, brown hair-line bent outward acutely 
on the median vein; a broad, diffuse, dark median band common to both wings. The 
extradiscal line is dark, finely scalloped, curved outward below the costa, and sweep- 
ing inward below the first median yenule; beyond this line both wings are deeper 
fawn-color. At a little distance below the costa, and nearer the extradiscal line than 
the outer edge of the wing, is a conspicuous angular, clear, white spot. Fringe dark, 
the scallops filled with whitish scales. Hind wings like the anterior pair, though the 
extradiscal line is not sinuous, but curved regularly outward. Beneath, paler than 
above; the median band is distinct, and the extradiscal line more or less so; the tints 
are much as above. The wings expand 1.40 inches. 
