CATARAPTA. 21' 



brown to vein 2, Underside of fore wing black-brown, tbe terminal 

 area greyish, the ba»al area white, an obliqne white medial patch 

 from subcostal nervure to vein 2, a narrow white postmedial l3and, 

 oblicjue to vein 4 and obsolescent below vein 2, cilia with a series 

 of white spots at base ; hind Aving black-brown, the basal and inner 

 areas white, a ratlier narrow sinuous white postmedial band ol)lique 

 to vein 4. 



Ab. 1. ulalume. Fore wing less strongly irrorated with brown, 

 the lines more distinct. 



Ab. 2. zelira. Fore wing with bla6k bands befoi'e the anteniedial 

 line and beyond the postmedial line. 



Ab. 3. pauUna. Fore wing suffused with blackish to the post- 

 medial line. 



Ab. 4. evelina. Fore wing with the basal and terminal areas 

 and the inner half almost, or entirely blackish. 



Hah. U.S.A., Eastern and Southern States, New York, 2 cj" , 3 $ , 

 Ohio {Druri/}, 1 c? , 1 ? . E,vp. 80-86 millim. 



Larva. Food-plants : probably Oak and Walnut. 



7138. Catabapta dejecta. (Plate CXCII. fig. 9.) 



Catocala dejecta, Streck. Bull. Eiooklyn Ent. Sou. ii. p. 97 (1880) ; Smith 

 Cat. Noot. N. Am. p. 351. 



c? . Head and thorax grey-white mixed with black-brown, the 

 vertex of head, tegulse, and prothoracic crest with some rufous ; 

 palpi white at base, blackish at tips; sides of froiis with black 

 spots ; pectus white ; legs white mixed with brown, the tarsi 

 banded with brown ; abdomen fuscous black, the base grey, the 

 ventral surface white with slight brown segmental lines. Fore 

 Aving bluish grey thickly irrorated with fuscous ; subbasal line 

 black, angled outwards below costa and inwards in cell, ending at 

 submedian fold ; antemedial line black, double, the inner line very 

 indistinct, waved, oblique to submedian fold, then more erect, a 

 quadrate grey-white patch beyond it from costa to median nervui'e ; 

 rcniforra defined by blackish and somewhat constricted at middle, 

 some black-brown in centre; a pear-shaped grey-white spot defined 

 by black below end of cell, connected with the postmedial line, 

 which is black, bent outwards below costa, oblique and sinuous to 

 vein 6, acutely dentate outwards above and below vein 5, then 

 incurved and waved and strongly angled outwards in submedian 

 fold where there is a black streak before it, a sinuous black shade 

 beyond it from costa to vein 6 ; a very indistinct waved subterminal 

 line with a slight blackish mark beyond it above \ein 6; a series 

 of minute black spots before termen. Hind wing black-brown ; 

 cilia white with slight blackish marks at the extremities of the 

 veins. Underside of fore wing black-broAvn, the base white, an 

 oblique whitish medial band from beloAV costa to vein 2 and 

 narrower postmedial band from costa to below vein 3, the apex 

 greyish ; hind wing white, a black medial band, oblique and sinuous 



