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antemedial baiidj the termen brownish grey; hind wing yellow, 

 the terminal area brownish grey, the black bands narrower and 

 more irregular. 



Ab. 1. communis. Fore wing paler and more uniform brownish 

 grey. 



Ab. 2. snoviana. Fore wing much darker; hind wing with the 

 basal area suffused with dark brown, the medial and terminal black 

 bands broader and the yellow postmedial band narrower. 



Ab. 3, Hind wing with the terminal baud interrupted. — 

 Arizona. 



Hah. U.S.A., East of Rocky Mts., Ifew York, 8 d , 2 $ , Penn- 

 sylvania, 1 S , Kansas (Snoiv), 1 d" , 1 $ , Arizona. Ea^y. 77-92 

 millim. 



Larva. Guen. Noct. iii. p. 96 ; Dodge, Can. Ent. sxxiii. p. 299, 



Head grej with many dark markings and black patches at sides 

 of mouth ; 1st somite grey, the others wood-brow'n ; subdorsal 

 stripes black on somites 4 and 8 ; dorsal stripe expanding into 

 patches on medial segraehts ; 8th somite with black baud and 

 slight raised ridge; tubercles whitish, large on 11th somite; 

 stigmatal stripe black; sublateral filaments simple and slight; 

 ventral surface tinged with red and spotted with black. Food- 

 plant, Walnut. 



*7159i Catabapta euphemia. 



Catocala eufhcinia, Beutenm. Bull. Am. Mus. Nat, Hisit. xxiii. p. 938 

 (1907). 



Head and thorax dark grey-brown with a slight olive tinge ; 

 pectus and legs brownish white ; abdomen fulvous yellow, the 

 ventral surface brownish white. Fore wing almost uniform grej'- 

 brown with an olive tihge ; subbasal line black, angled outwards 

 below costa and ending at submedian fold ; a black sf reak in base 

 of submedian fold usually present ; antemedial line black defined 

 on inner side by olivaceous, dilated at eosta, oblique, sinuous ; 

 rcniform olivaceous defined by black and with its centre defined 

 by black ; a spot below end of cell defined by black and connected 

 with the postmedial line, which is black, bent outwards below 

 costa, then oblique, strongly augled outwards above and below 

 vein 5, then slightly dentate, ex curved below vein 2 and angled 

 inwards at vein 1 ; subterminal line greyish, strongly dentate^ 

 oblique to vein 6. Hind wing dull orange-} ellow ; an obliquely 

 curved black medial band, strongly constricted at discal fold and 

 narrowing to inner margin; terminal band black, its inner edge 

 oblique to vein 6, then sinuous ; the apical part of termen yelloAv; 

 cilia yellow, intersected with brown at veins G to 2. Underside of 

 fore wing pale orange-yellow, an oblique black shade from costa 

 before middle to the oblique black postmedial band at inner margin 

 above which the band is strongly angled, terminal area black irro- 

 rated with orange ; hind wing orange-yellow, the medial band 



