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Upper Side. The antennae are black, small, and pectinated. The tongue not discoverable. Thorax 

 and base of abdomen yellow orange; the remainder of the abdomen rusty grey, with a black stripe 

 down the top of it. Anterior wings black and transparent, like gauze; the anterior and posterior 

 margins bordered with orange. The tips of the wings are likewise broadly orange, through the middle 

 of which runs a broad bar of white, from the anterior to the middle of the external edge, where it is 

 narrowest, being edged with black. Posterior wings black, and like gauze ; the external edge having a 

 narrow orange stripe running from the anal margin, half way to the exterior angle. The wings are entire. 



Under Side. The abdomen is grey, with a black line running from the thorax to the tail. Anterior 

 wings not edged with orange ; the tips are black, where the white bar is plainly seen, having an orange 

 spot on the edge, near the external and lower corners. Posterior wings as on the upper side. 



This insect seems to form the type of a distinct subgenus between Nudaria and 

 Callimorpha. 



NOCTUA NUMERIA. 



Plate XXIII. fig. .5. 



Order : Lepidoptera. Section : Diurna. Family : NoctuidBe. 



Genus. Noctua, Auct. 



NocTUA NuMERiA. Alis fuscis, anticis vitta longitudinal! alba, antice strigis undulatis transversis; posticis 



macule externa alba. (Expans. Alar. 2 unc. 3 lin.) 

 Stn. Phalsena (Noctua) Numeria, Brury, App. vol. 2. 

 Habitat : Jamaica. 



Upper Side. Antennae filifonn. Tongue spiral. Head, thorax, and abdomen fine brown. Anterior 

 wings fine brown, through the middle of which runs a small longitudinal bar of white or pearl, beginning 

 just below the shoulders, and losing itself just below the tips. Above this bar the wings are watered 

 with various marks of dark and light brown. Behind it they are of a darker shade, except a spot near the 

 middle of a yellowish brown. Posterior wings dark brown, with two white marks on the edges, about 

 a third of an inch long ; beginning on the anterior edge, and crossing the corner to the external edge. 



Under Side. Breast, legs, abdomen, and wings greyish brown or russet, with some faint, dark 

 indented lines running across all the wings in different parts. The white marks on the edges of the 

 posterior wings are very visible on this side. The wings are entire. 



CATOCALA AFFINIS. 



Plate XXIII. fig. 6. 



Order: Lepidoptera. Section: Noctuma. Family: Noctuidse. 

 Genus. Catocala, Schr. Blephara, Hiibn. Phalsena (Noctua), Linn. 



CatoCALA Appini.s. Alis anticis fuscis maculis ordinariis discoidalibus strigisque dentatis obscurioribus ; 

 posticis fulvis fasci& centrali margineque postico late nigris. (Expans. Alar. 2 unc.) 



Syn. Phalsena (Noctua) Paranympha, Druty, App. vol. 2. (excl. syn. Linniean.) 



Habitat ; New York; taken on the 27tli day of July. 



