;3-l- KOCTUID.Ti;. 



red-brown, the anal tuft witli some grey, the ventral surface white 

 tinged with brown. Tore wing purplish grej- tinged with red- 

 browii and irrorated with dark brown ; a black subbasal line, 

 slightly angled outwards below costa and ending at submediau 

 fold ; antemedial line black, strong and oblique to submedian fold, 

 incurved at vein 1 and excurved above inner margin ; reniform 

 defined by blackish and with, some rufous in centre, an oblique 

 dark striga above it from costa ; a pale spot defined by black below 

 end of cell ; postmcdial line black, bent outwards below costa, then 

 oblique, acutely angled outwards above vein 5, then inwardly 

 oblique, minutely dentate, excurved at submedian fold and angled 

 inwards at vein 1, a rufous band beyond it followed by a grey- 

 white subterminal shade defined on outer side by a faint dentate 

 brown line ; a series of black points just before termen slightly 

 defined on outer side by whitish. Hind wing orange, the basal 

 and inner areas, suffused with dark red-biown, leaving only .^light 

 orange marks before the black medial band, which is oblique to 

 submedian fold then bent inwards to inner margin, expanding 

 below costa and at middle and its outer edge excurved at vein 5 

 and submedian fold; terminal area black, its inner edge inoirved 

 at discal fold and veins 2 and 1 and excurved at middle and sub- 

 median fold ; the termen narrowly yellow towards apex, then with 

 slight yellow marks in the interspaces to vein 2 ; cilia yellow, 

 chequered with brown at veins 6 to 2 and with some brown towards 

 tornus. Underside of fore wing yellow, an oblique fuscous brown 

 shade from costa before middle to the obliquely curved black medial 

 band with sinuous edges at inner margin, a curved blackish sub- 

 terminal shade, the area beyond it grey-brown ; hind wing as above 

 but with more orange below end of cell before the medial band, the 

 costal area reddish brown, cilia chequered white and brown. 



Hab. U.S.A., New York {DoubJeduy), 1 J, Pennsylvania and 

 southwards, Mississippi, Kansas {Meslie), 1 cT, 85. Exp. Q4i- 

 72 millim. 



Larva. Elongate ; clear ochreous grey clouded with blackish, the 

 sides and somital incisions reddish; no protuberances; head with 

 two black streaks. Pood-plants : Myrica jind Bastard Indigo. 



7152. Catabapta serena. (Plate CXCIV. fig. 1.) 



Catocala serena, W. H. Edw. Proc. Eiit. Soo. Pliil. ii. p. 610 (1804); 

 Street. Lep. Rhop. & Het. p. 23, pi. iii. f. 11; Suiillj, Cat. Koct. 

 N. Am. p. 348. 



(S . Head and legulae red-brown; thorax grey tinged with red- 

 brown ; pectus red-brown ; legs fuscous brown, the tarsi witli ]?ale 

 rings ; abdomen fulvous brown. Pore wing grey-Avhite suffused 

 with red-brown ; subbasal line blackish, sinuous, from costa to 

 submedian fold : antemedial line blackish, obliquely excurved and 

 slightly sinuous, obsolescent on inner area; renifoim with whitish 

 centre faintly defined by red-brown and with traces of a brown 



