CATABAPXA. 23 



Larva. French, Can. Ent. xx. p. 28. 



Greenish grey with many black lines, the sides whiter ; each 

 somite with slight protuberances ; head grey, edged with black 

 behind. Food plants: Oak, Hickory, Walnut. 



7U0. Catabapta viduata. (Plate CXCIII. fig. 1.) 



Catocala vidua, Guen. Noot. iii. p.' 94 (1852), nee Abbot. 



(Jatocala viduata, GrLieii. Noct. iii. p. 400 (1852) ; Streck. Lep. Rliop. & 



Het. p. 17, pi. ill f. 2; Dyar, Gat. Lep. N. Am. p. 224. 

 Catabapta moestosa, Hiilst, Bull. Erookljn Eiit. Soc. vii. p. 63 (1884) ; 



Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 352. 

 Catocala gueneoi, Grote, Cat. Ent. xix. p. 115 (1887). 

 Catocala moderna, Grote, Cat. Ent. xxxii. p. 191 (1900) ; Dyar, Cat. Lep. 



N. Am. p. 224. 



Head and thorax grey mixed with dark brown ; palpi white at 

 base, the extremity of 2nd joint and sides of frons brown; teguUe 

 with red-brown line near base, blackish line at middle aud dark 

 brown band at tips ; patagia with some blackish scales near upper 

 edge ; pectus white ; legs white irrorated with brown, the extre- 

 mity of fore tibiae and the tarsi banded black-brown and white ; 

 abdomen grey tinged with brown, the ventral surface brownish white. 

 Eore wing grey irrorated with red-brown and dark brown ; subbasal 

 line slight, dark brown, angled outwards on subcostal nervure and 

 ending at submedian fold in which there is a short black-brown 

 streak beyond it; antemedial line dark brown defined on inner side 

 by whitish, strong towards costa, angled outwards below costa, 

 then oblique, sinuous, a short dark streak betore it below median 

 nervure ; reniform pale rufous with faint whitish annulus, large 

 and irregularly rounded ; a diffused oblique black-brown shade from 

 middle of costa to subtermiual line below vein 5 where it is met by 

 a diif used oblique black-brown shade from termen below apex ; an 

 oblique pear-shaped pale grey spot defined by brown below end 

 of cell, connected with the postmedial line, which is black-brown 

 slightly defined on outer side by whitish, vei'y oblique and sinuous 

 towards costa, acutely angled outwards above and below vein 5, 

 then dentate and strongly angled inwards on veins 2 and 1 ; sub- 

 terminal lino whitish defi.ned on outer side by brown, dentate, 

 oblique from costa to below vein 7 ; a series of blackish points 

 before termen defined on outer side by white ; the veins of terminal 

 area with slight blackish streaks. Hind wing black-brown with 

 some greyish hair on basal and inner areas ; cilia white with series 

 of black-brown spots at base from below apex to vein 2, Under- 

 side of fore wing black-brown, the terminal area grey expanding 

 towards apex, the basal ai'ea and basal half of costal area whitish, 

 an oblique medial whitish band with dentate inner edge from the 

 costal area to vein 2, a postmedial whitish band expanding at 

 costa, then obliquely incurved and with dentate outer edge to below 

 vein 4, then erect and obsolescent, cilia white at base, brownish at 

 tips ; hind wing with the basal and inner areas white, the rest 

 of wing black-brown with some grey at apex, a white postmedial 



