18 NOCTUIDJi;. 



above and below vein 5, then waved, at vein 2 forming the sinus 

 below end of cell, strongly angled inwards at vein 1 where there 

 is a dark brown streak from it to the siibterminal line, which is 

 pale grey defined on outer side by brown, waved, oblique from costa 

 to below vein 6 where it is met by a faint oblique shade from 

 termen below apex ; a series of dark points before termen ; the 

 veins of terminal area with slight dark streaks. Hind wing black- 

 brown with a cupreous gloss ; cilia white at the tips towards apex. 

 Underside of fore wing black-brown, a pure white patch at base, 

 faint traces of a small medial oblique whitish mark from subcostal 

 nervure to vein 2, an indistinct p.ile postmedial line with white 

 spot at costa, oblique from costa to vein 4, some grey at apex, cilia 

 with a series of white spots at base ; hind wing with, the basal 

 and inner areas pure white, the rest of wing black-brown, a whitish 

 postmedial line, oblique and sinuous to vein 4 and ending at tornus, 

 cilia with some whitish. 



Ab. 1. 2 . Smaller, 66 millim. ; the head, thorax, and fore 

 Aving much browner. 



Hub. Caj^ada ; U.S.A., Middle, Central, and Southern States, New 

 York, 4 c?, 2 $, Kansas {Snoiv\ 1 c? , 1 $ • Exx^. 74-82 

 millim. 



Larva. Beutenin. Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. xix. p. 509. 



Yiolaceous grey irrorated with black forming subdorsal and 

 lateral stripes ; warts prominent, red ; 8th somite not humped ; 

 ]lth somite with two short blunt prominences directed backwards; 

 sides with rather long grey filaments ; venti'al surface dirty white 

 tinged with reddish, each somite with a black patch ; head whitish 

 with violaceous grey lines connected by fine reticulations. P'ooJ- 

 plant : Hickory. 



7135. Catabapta obscura. (Plate CXCII. fig. 6.) 



6W o«(fo ofocMra, Streck. Lep. Rhop. & Ilet. p. 19, pi. hi. f. 4 (1873); 



Smith, Cat. JVoct. N. Am. p. 353. 

 Catocala simulatilis, Grote, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. v. p. 94 (1874). 



Head and thorax brown mixed with some grey ; pectus white ; 

 abdomen rather darker brown, the ventral surface white. Eore 

 wing brown tinged with grey and irrorated with dark brown ; 

 subbasal line indistinct, blackish, angled outwards below costa and 

 ending at submedian fold ; antemedial line indistinct, dark, oblique, 

 sinuous ; reniform a small faint brownish lunule with whitish 

 striga in centre ; an oblique brown bar from middle of costa to 

 reniform ; traces of a small spot defined by brown below end of 

 cell ; postmedial line dark, bent outwards below costa, then dentate, 

 oblique, angled outwards above and below vein 5 and strongly 

 inwards on vein 1 ; subterminal line diffused, grey-white faintly 

 defined on outer side by brown, slightly waved, oblique from costa 

 to below vein 6 ; a series of dark points defined on outer side by 



