40 NOCTUlDiE. 



Ab. 1. hasalis. Fore wing with black streaks above base of vein 1 

 and before the antemedial line below the cell. 



Ilah. Canada, Ontario, Oneida {Bailey),l $ type iasaKs ; U.S.A., 

 Eastern, Middle, and Central States, Kew York, 2^,1$, Ohio 

 (Druri/), 1 § . Exp. 60-70 millim. 



Liirca. Kellicott, Ent. Am. ii. p. 46. 



Slender, dark or almost black ; a broad pale dorsal stripe defined 

 on each side b)- broad dark stripes ; stigmatal stripes almost black ; 

 ventral surface whitish with black spots on the medial somites ; 

 head tinged with red and with faint white reticulations. Food- 

 plant, Hickory, C. alba. 7. 



7158. Catabapta neogama. (Plate CXCIV. fig. 7.) 



Phalcpna neogama. Smith & Abbot, Ins. Georoia, ii. p. 175, pi. 88 

 (1797) ; Duncan, Jardine's Kat. Libr. v. p. 202, pi. 26. ff. 1, 2; Streck. 

 Lep. Ehop. & Het. p. 35, pi. v. ff. 4^ 6 ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. 

 p. .349. 



C'docala communis-, Grote, Trans. Am. Ent. S>)0. iv. p. 9 (1872). 



Catocala snoviana, Grote, List NocdiidtTs, p. 41 (1876). 



Head and thorax rufous mixed with grey-v.'hite ; palpi whitish 

 At base, blackish towards tips ; pectus whitish tinged with rufous ; 

 legs whitish and broWn, the tarsi banded with blackish; abdomen 

 fulvous brown j the ventral surface whitish tinged with fulvous. 

 Fore wing grey-white stiffused in parts with rufous and irrorated 

 with black-brown ; subbasal line black, angled outwards below 

 costa and ending at submedian fold, a diffused blackish fascia 

 beyond it below the cell to the antemedial line, which is black, 

 oblique and sinUous to submedian fold, then angled inwards on 

 vein 1 ; reniform rufous with whitish annulus defined by blackish 

 And some whitish in centre, an oblique blackish striga above it 

 fV'im costa and an oblique white streak before it in cell ; an oblique 

 elliptical rlifous and whitish spot defined by black below end of 

 cell ; postmedial line black slightly defined on outer side by whitish, 

 bent outwards below costa, then oblique and sinuous, very acutely 

 angled outwards above and below vein 5, then inwardly oblique, 

 dentate, strongly excurved at submedian fold and angled inwards 

 at vein 1 ; postmedial area rufous; subterminalline whitish defined 

 on outer side by brown, tvaved, oblique from costa to below vein 6; 

 an oblique blackish shade from termen below apex ; a series of 

 black strife before termen slightly defined on outer side by white. 

 Hind wing orange-yellow, the inner area with some brownish hair ; 

 an obliquely Curved medial black balid from costa to vein 1, its 

 outer edge exclirved at Vein 5 ; tertninal area black, its inner edge 

 angled inwards at veins 2 and 1 ; the terttien with small yellow 

 patch at apex with bidentate inner edge, then with series of small 

 spots in the interspaces to vein 2 ; cilia yellow with slight brown 

 marks at veins 6 to 2. Underside of fore wing yellow, an oblique 

 black-brown shade from costa before middle to vein 1, an obliquely 

 tliVVed black medial band^ its inner edge sinuous, a curved black 



