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CATOCALA AMASIA. 



PLATE XXVI. Fig. 3. 



Allot and Smith, Lepid. Geog., vol. ii. pi. 90 ; Oliv. Encyc. 

 Method., p. 290. 



Considerably less than the preceding, the wings 

 expanding little more than two inches. Head and 

 thorax light grey ; abdomen yellow : upper wings 

 variegated with ash-grey and white, the surface 

 variously marked with dark spots and transverse 

 streaks ; in the centre there is an ear-shaped mark, 

 and towards the exterior margin a dark zigzag line 

 with a row of fulvous spots within it. The under 

 wings are yellow, with two curved black bands, the 

 innermost one narrow and not reaching to the ab- 

 dominal margin, the exterior one broad and inter- 

 rupted near the anal angle; the fringe yellow, 

 slightly clouded with dusky. 



The caterpillar is grey, with darker lines along 

 the sides. Its most common food is the various 

 kinds of American oaks; Abbot found it also on 

 the Bead-tree, or Pride of China (Melia azedarack, 

 Linn.). The author just named found that it spun 

 among the leaves in the beginning of May, and 

 came out near the end of that month. He adds, 



