44 -KOCTVIDM. 



side bj' a rufous band, angled outwards above vein 5, then waved 

 and somewhat oblique ; a dentate fuscous subterminal line defined 

 on inner side by a grey baud; a series of black points before 

 tcrmen defined on outer side by whitish points. Hind wing black- 

 brown, the cilia pure white except towards tornus. Underside of 

 fore wing black-brown, the terminal area grey, a whitish wedge- 

 shaped medial patch from subcostal nervure to vein 2, a curved 

 white postmedial band, the cilia with series of white spots at base; 

 hind wing grey suffused with black-brown except on basal and 

 costal areas, a narrow obliquely curved pale band, white towards 

 costa, from middle of costa to inner margin above tornus, defined 

 on inner side by black-brown. 



Hab. Canada ; U.B.A., Eastern, Middle, and Central States, New 

 York, Evans Center (Grote), 1 (^ , Pennsylvania, 1 S , Ohio, Colum- 

 bus, 1 $ , Georgia, 1 J , 1 $ , Kansas, 2 J , 1 $ . Exp. 66-72 

 millim. 



Larva. Guen. Noct. iii. p. 93; Dodge, Can. Ent. xxsiii. p. 225. 



lleddish grey marbled with blue-grey ; subdorsal line black, 

 interrupted at middle of each somite ; -a pale lateral band ; head 

 grey with two red points ; no protuberances. Eood-plants, Oak 

 and Hickory. 



7161. BEormonia sponsa. 



Noctua sponsa, Linn. Sjst. Nat. ed. xii. p. 841 (1767) ; Esp. Schmett. iv. 

 pi. 95; Hiibn. Eur. Sclimett., Noot. f. 333; Godt. Lep. Fr. t. p. 68, 

 pi. 48. f. 2 ; F. de Waldheim, Ent. Euss. i. p. 196, pi. v. f. 1 ; Staud. 

 Cat. Lep. pal. p. 248. 



Caiocala rejecta, F. de Waldheim, Ent. Euss. i. p. 197, pi. v. f. 2 (1820). 



Ccdocala despo7isa, Schultz, Ent. Zeit. Guben. xx. p. 94 (1906). 



Catocala lata, Obertb. Bull. Soe. Ent. Fr. 1907, p. 346. 



Catocala fiorida, Scbultz, Ent. Zeit. xxii. p. 169 (1909). 



Head and thorax brown mixed with whitish and black ; palpi 

 white irrorated with black ; frons with lateral black bars ; tegulae 

 and prothorax with blackish lunules, the patagia edged with black ; 

 pectus and legs brownish white, the tibiae irrorated with black and 

 with black bands, the tarsi blackish ringed with white ; abdomen 

 gre3'-brown, the ventral surface whitish tinged with brown. Eore 

 wing red-brown mixed with some grey-white and suff'used in parts 

 with fuscous ; subbasal line black defined on outer side by whitish, 

 sinuous, from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line bhickish, 

 diffused and oblique from costa to submedian fold, then indistinctly 

 double, waved, filled in with white at inner margin ; reniform with 

 yellowish centre defined above and below by brown and white 

 annulus defined by black, dentate on outer side, an oblique dark 

 bar above it from costa with a brownish white band before it 

 becoming yellow and white in the cell ; a yellow spot defined by 

 black below end of cell ; postmedial line indistinctly double, black, 

 filled in by white at costa and towards inner margin, bent outwards 

 below costa, then obliquely downcurved, angled outwards above 

 and below vein 5, then incurved, slightly waved, and angled inwards 



