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one interrupted with a series of small white spots. 

 The thorax is olive and the abdomen yellow. On 

 the under side the anterior wings are yellowish, the 

 tips brown, and there is a black streak running 

 from the lower corner to the posterior edge; the 

 under side of the posterior wings nearly like the 

 upper. 



Cramer states that his specimens are both from 

 the coast of Coromandel and Surinam (?). Drury 

 obtained it from Bengal. 



CATOCALA NEOGAMA. 



PLATE XXVI. Fig. 1. 



Ablot and Smith, Lepid. Georg., vol. ii. pi. 88 ; Oliv. Encyc. 

 Method, p. 291. 



The characteristic features of this genus have been 

 described at length, in giving the history of certain 

 of the species occurring in Britain.* The foreign 

 species are numerous, but none of them exceed in 

 size or beauty our own rare C. Fraxini. They are 

 natives of temperate climates. The caterpillars are 

 called half-loopers, that is, they curve upwards a 



* Nat. Lib. Brit. Moths, p. 242. 



