164 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 
LIST OF THE ; 
NORTH AMERICAN SPECIES OF CATOCALA. 
BY AUG. R. GROTE, DEMOPOLIS, ALA. 
The present list is based upon a paper on the genus Cafocala recently 
published in the Transactions of the American Entomological Society. 
The sequence of the species there adopted is here retained, withsan 
unimportant change in a single instance for convenience of reference. 
The species are grouped according to the colour and design of the hind 
wings. Such an arrangement must, to a certain extent, be arbitrary, yet 
little violence seems to be done to the general affinities of the species by 
its adoption in this genus. With regard to the position of the species 
with black hind wings, it must be conceded that they are most nearly 
allied to the species with yellow secondaries. For instance, C. efzone 
resembles C. consors ; C. Robinsonit, C. habilis, etc. But I inaugurate the 
genus with the black winged species from the consideration that such 
species are not found in other continents, and that in North America the 
genus attains its fullest representation. I allow them to precede the 
more typical specific forms, such as certain of the red winged species, and 
conclude with the yellow winged Cafocale, as has been customary with 
regard to the European species. From the Atlantic district we have at 
least one strictly representative species. This is C. reZcta, which repre- 
sents the European C. fraxini in our fauna. But I do not know C. 
Walshii, and thus have not been able to decide upon the degree of 
relationship between the red winged species of the two Continents. 
In the following list, the names of species not known to me in nature, 
are followed by a dash (—). Those hitherto found in Canada are pre- 
ceded by an asterisk (*). Mr. Saunders has kindly enabled me to add 
to the number of species hitherto known to me from various points in 
Canada. The Californian and Texan species are separately indicated ; 
‘the rest are from the Atlantic district. I have not cited Mr. Walker’s 
erroneous determinations in this genus, elsewhere pointed out, from a 
desire to avoid increasing the synonymy. While our collections from the 
Territories are as yet scanty, we must expect the discovery of many new 
species of the genus. Of the fifty-nine (59) here enumerated, ten (10) are 
known to me only by description. In the State Collection in St. Louis, I 
have been shown a specimen of C. Rodinsonit taken in Missouri. ; 
