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NOCTUIDiE. 



Hah. Canada, Ontario, Si. Catherines {Norman), 1 $ type ; 

 U.S.A., Maine, 1 5 , New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Kew York. 

 E.vp. 62 millirn. 



7149. Catahapta antinympha. 



Phalce/ia 2^ara)ijjmpha, Dnu-j, 111. Exot. Ins. i. pi. 23. f. 6 (1770), nee 



Linn. 

 Ephesia antmyi7ipha, Hahn. Verz. p. 278 (1827); Streek. Lep. Ehop. & 



Het. p. 36, pi. V. f. 7 ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 347. 

 Catocala affink, Westw. ed. Drurj, 111. Exot. lus. i. p. 44, pi. 23. f. 6 



(1840). 

 Catocala melanympha, Guen. Noct. iii. p. 9S (1852). 



Head and thorax black-brown tinged with grey and irroratod 

 with white ; tegulse with black lines at middle and tips ; the pro- 

 thorax with a black bar, the patagia with black lines near edges ; 

 tarsi black ringed with white ; abdomen dull reddish brown, the 

 crests blackish tipped with grey, the ventral surface whitish irro- 

 rated with red-brown. Eore wing black-brown suffused with 

 Jeaden grey; subbasal line black, sinuous, from costa to submedian 



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Fig. 3. — Catahapta anUnympha, c?. \. 



fold ; antemedial line double, black, the inner line indistinct, 

 oblique from costa to submedian fold and incurved at vein 1, some 

 whitish beyond it and in cell ; reuiform irrorated with whitish and 

 defined by blackish, its centre defined by blackish on inner side, an 

 oblique blackish bar above it from costa and the veins beyond 

 lower angle of cell streaked with black, an oblique triangular white 

 spot irrorated with red-brown and defined by black below end of 



