CATABAPTA. 31 



Hah. U.S.A., Eastern, Middle and Central States {Bouhleday), 

 1 c? , Pennsylvania, 1 c^ , Ohio, 4 S , Kansas {Sjiow), 1 $ . Emji. 74- 

 76 millim. 



Larva. French, Can. Ent. xx. p. 108. 



Pale purplish red mottled with black, sometimes with a yellowish 

 tinge, with live pale and four darker stripes, the latter formed by 

 the mottliiigs being thicker, the pale stripes darker at middle, the 

 dorsal stripe with dark elliptical marks, broader between the 

 somites ; thoracic somites rather darker ; piliferoua spots pale 

 yellow, on dorsum tipped with orange ; somite 8 with slightly 

 elevated black dorsal patch; somite 11 with a pair of prominences ; 

 fringes white ; ventral surface pale yellow with series of black 

 patches ; bead striped with reddish white. Food-plants : Hickory 

 and Walnut. 



7148. Catabapta ccelebs. (Plate CXCIII. fig. 9.) 



Catocala ccelehs, Grote, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. v. p. 96 (1874); Smith, 

 Cat. JSToct. N. Am. p. 348. 



$ . Head and thorax grey mixed with dark brown ; tegulse with 

 brown lines at middle and near tips ; pectus and legs gruy mixed 

 with brown, the tarsi blackish with pale rings ; abdomen fulvous 

 brown, the ventral surface whitish tinged with fulvous. Fore 

 wing grey irrorated with red-brown, the terminal area paler ; sub- 

 basal line black, sinuous, from costa to submedian fold ; a brown 

 and black shade before the antemedial line, which is black, oblique 

 to submedian fold and incurved at vein 1, a white patch beyond it 

 in the cell ; reniform defined by black, its annulus with some white 

 scales, its centre defined by brown, its outer edge somewhat den^ 

 tate, an oblique dark striga above it from costa, some black suffusion 

 beyond its lower extremity ; a white and rufous spot defined by 

 black below end of cell, connected by a sinus on vein 2 with the 

 postmedial line, which is black, bent outwards below costa, then 

 obliquely downcurved, acutely angled outwards above vein 5, then 

 oblique and minutely dentate, angled outwards at submedian fold 

 and inwards at vein 1, a red-brown band beyond it followed by the 

 slightly waved whitish subterminal shade, oblique to below vein 6 ; a 

 series of black points just before termen and a fine waved black 

 terminal line. Hind wing orange-yellow, the base and inner area 

 tinged with red-brown ; an obliquely curved black medial band 

 from costa to above inner margin, its edges slightly sinuous ; a 

 bldck terminal band, narrowing to tornus, its inner edge slightly 

 incurved at vein 2 ; the termen narrowly yellow towards apex ; 

 cilia brown, whitish towards apex. Underside of fore wing yellow, 

 an oblique black-brown shade from below costa before middle to 

 vein 1, an obliquely curved black medial band, narrowing to inner 

 margin, a slight curved blackish subterminal band, the terminal 

 area grey-brown ; hind wing as above but the costal area grey^ 

 brown, the terminal band obsolescent on costal half. 



