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variously marked with browu, aud with a substigmatal brown line; the 

 back of the caterpillar remains hunched in repose. 



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

 more marked ; fore-wlugs 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. Hiud wings rather dull yel- 

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

 margin, extending to the anal margin. Beneath, 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 4.5""". Habi- 

 tat Eastern and Southern States. (Hulst.) 



10. Catoeala innubens Guen^e. 



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



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

 black; M of transverse posterior line strong; teeth broad, even; reniform 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 band rather broad, quite even. Expands 65 to 70""". Habitat 

 Eastern, Middle and Western States. (Hulst.) 



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



Yat. flavidalis Grote has yellow hind wings. 



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

 transverse posterior line. 



11. Catoeala paleogama Gueu6e. 



The caterpillar closely resembles that of 0. 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, 

 email ; siuus of transverse posterior line broadly marked, acute, not deep ; teeth of M 

 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 band beyond 

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



12. Catoeala 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.) 



