CATABAPTA. 19 



whitisli before termen. Hind wing black-brown ; cilia pure wliite 

 with some brown at base, brownish towards tornus. Underside of 

 fore M'ing black-brown, the base white, an oblique whitish medial 

 patch from below costa to vein 2, postmedial band narrow, white, 

 oblique to vein 4 and obsolescent towards inner margin, some white 

 at apex, cilia white intersected with brown and brownish at tips ; 

 hind wing with the b4,sal and inner areas white, the rest of wing 

 black-brown, a white postmedial bap.d obliqiie and sinuous to vein 4 

 and ending at tornus. 



Ab. 1. simulating. Fore wing with the ante- and postmedial lines 

 more prominent and black. 



Hah. Canada ; U.S.A., Eastern, Middle, ^nd Gentry,! States, New 

 York, 2 c?, 2 $ type simulatilis, Ohio, 2 (S type, Colorado. 

 E.vp. 66-74 millim. 



Larva. Kellicott, Ent. Am. ii. p. 45 ; Dpdge, Can. Ent. x^xiii. p. 225. 



Fuscous grey ; dorsal stripe interrupted on 4th to 9th somites by 

 curved black patches enclosing white conical patches 5 tuberclps 

 small and white, no filaments ; somite 11 sliglitly humped and 

 edged behind by black ; ventral surface greenish white with large 

 black spots except on thoracic and 8th and ^th somites ; head 

 whitish with pale brown niarking3 and small blotch at cornej.' of 

 jaws. Food-plant : Jijckory. 



7136. Catalapta ^grippiiia, (Plate CXCII. fig. 7.) 



Catocala agrippina. Stivcb. Lep. Ehop. & Ilet. p. 95, pi. xi. figs. 1-3 



(1874); .^mitli, Cat Noct. N. Am. p. 362. 

 Catoccda suhvirldis, Hary. Cau. Ent. ix. p. 193 (1877). 

 Catocala barnesip, Fi-e. ch, Can. Ent. xxxii. p. 190 (1900). 



Head and tegulae red-brown mixed with some white, the tegijlse 

 with red-brown medial line ; palpi with sojne white at bas^e and a|; 

 extremity of 2nd joint whiph is dark towards e::^tremity; thorax 

 reddish brown mix,ed with grey; pectus white; legs white 

 irrorated with bpown, the fore tibiae and the tarsi with dark bands ; 

 abdomen greyish brown, the ventral surface -vyhitish. Fore wing 

 grey irrorated and in parts suffused with red- brown ; subbasal line 

 black-brown, angl.ed outwards below cost^ and ending at submedian 

 fold ; antemedial line indistinctly double^ the inner Ijne faint, the 

 outer black-brown to submedian fold, angled outwards below costa, 

 then oblique and sinuous and angled inwards at vein 1 ; reniform 

 red-brown faintly defined by darker brown, rounded ; an oblique 

 dark bar from middle of costa and indistinct palp elliptical spot 

 below end of cell defined on inner side by black-brown, ajid con- 

 nected with the postmedial line which is black-brown, strongly 

 bent outwards below costa, then obliqu.e and sinuous, acutely angled 

 outwards above and below vein 5, then incurved, waved and 

 strongly angled inwards on vein 1, the area beyond it rufous 

 except at posta to the dentate grey subterpainal line defined on 



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