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Drake’s figures,» have to do with the female sex exclusively. 
In accordance with the data presented above, the following 
synonymy is proposed: 
Melanorhopala clavata Stal, ¢. 
M. obscura Parsh. 
?M. lurida Stal. 
* Rnum. Hem., 3, 1873, p. 131. 
cp leyaubhaal, lilo, Sh) wes) Wy WeKOL 
=O Gis, JBL mo, fies. a, i, eiaGl c. 
CATOCALA TRISTIS AND GRACILIS ON HIGH—BUSH 
BLUEBERRY. 
By Cuas. RumMEL, Newark, N. J. 
On a collecting trip to the Orange Mountains, N. J., May 25, 
1918, while beating for caterpillars on the high-bush blueberry 
(Vaccinium corymbosum) a Catocala larva dropped into the 
umbrella. Recognizing it as one of the small species of the genus 
and suspecting that it might prove to be ¢ristis, I continued beat- 
ing the same kind of shrubs and secured two more larve. A 
strip of woodland south of the trolley line from Roselle to Cran- 
iord, N. J., where I had taken two adults of C. tristis in a 
previous season, on June 2, 1918, was found too wet and 
swampy for collecting. Next, on June 4, visiting the top of the 
Orange Mountains by way of the Bloomfield car line I secured 
two more larve by again beating on high-bush blueberry, one 
along the western slope near the top and the other in the wooded 
valley west of the mountains. 
The first lot of three larvee taken on May 25 pupated on June 
4 and on June 28 a fine specimen of C. tristis emerged. Of the 
remaining pups one was parasitized, the other died. From the 
second lot of two larve, collected June 4, which pupated on June 
iOway Pemrece specimen of C. gracilis hatched on June 28 and 
another on June 30. 
This establishes high-bush blueberry (Vaccinium corymbosum) 
as a food plant for C. iristis and C. gracilis. 
