CATABAl'TA. 25', 



Hab. Canada; U.S.A., Northern, Eastern, Middle, and Central 

 States, Is, 1 $ , Ohio, Columbus, 1 J , 1 $ , Kansas, 2 S , 2 ? . 

 Exp. 74-84 milliim. 



Larva. French, Can. Ent. xxTi. p. 97 (1894) ; Dodge, Can. Ent. xxxiii. p. 298. 



Elackish, the medial somites rather paler ; dorsal stripe repre- 

 sented by a series of rounded brown patches with a black dorsal 

 line ; subdorsal stripes brown, interrupted and indistinct ; tubercles 

 tipped with white ; 4th somite with i)ale brown band ; 8th somite 

 with a slight black transverse ridge, its anterior part pale brown ; 

 filaments whitish, numerous ; ventral surface white tinged with 

 pink and with large black spots except on thoracic and 8th and 

 9th somites; head grey striped with dark brown and with lateral 

 black bands on each lobe. Food-plant: Hickory. 



7142. Catabapta flehilis. (Plate CXCIII. fig. 3.) 



Cutocala flehilis, Grote, Trans. Am. Eut. Soc. iv. p. 4 (1872); Streck. 

 Lep. Rhop. & Het. p. 71, pi. ix. ff. 3,4; Smith, Cat. Noct. N.Am, 

 p. 361. 



(S . Head and thorax grey mixed with brown ; palpi with the 

 2nd joint black towards extremity ; antennae black, whitish at tips ; 

 Tertex of head with a black line angled between antennse ; tegulae 

 with black line followed by a brownish line near tips ; patagia Avith 

 black streaks on edges ; pectus white and brown ; legs suffused 

 with fuscous, the fore tarsi ringed with white ; abdomen black- 

 brown, the anal tuft at sides and ventral surface brownish white. 

 Fore wing grey tinged in parts with red-brown and thickly irrorated 

 with blackish ; a diffused black fascia below the cell and vein 5 

 to postmedial line and thence obliquely to termen below apex ; 

 subbasal line black, angled outwards below costa and ending at 

 submedian fold ; antemedial line black, obliquely excurved and 

 sinuous, slightly angled inwards on median nervure and more 

 strongly on vein 1 ; reniform large, rounded, its centre tinged with 

 rufous and with slight whitish annulus defined by black except 

 above ; an oblique blackish bar from middle of costa to the 

 reniform ; an obliquely curved whitish spot defined by black below 

 end of cell, connected with the postmedial line, which is black, 

 forming a small spot at costa, bent outwards below costa, then 

 oblique and sinuous, acutely angled outwards above and below 

 vein 5, then incurved and dentate, at vein 5 forming the sinus 

 below end of cell, strongly angled outwards in submedian fold and 

 inwards on vein 1 ; subterminal line rather diffused, whitish faintly 

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

 to below vein 6 ; a series of blackish points slightly defined on outer 

 side by whitish before termen ; tlie veins of terminal area with 

 slight dark streaks. Hind Aving black-brown ; cilia pure white 

 with brown marks at extremities of veins to 2. Underside of 

 fore wing black-brown, a white patch at base, an obliquely curved 

 whitish medial mark from subcostal nervure to vein 2, postmedial 



