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whitish to bej'ond middle, the medial band Avith sinuous inner edge 

 and not reaching inner margin, the termen suffused with grey 

 except towards tornus. 



Ab. 1. carissima. Fore wing more strongly irrorated with olive- 

 grey scales forming a large patch at apex. 



Ab. 2. syluia. Fore wing rather more prominently variegated 

 with olive-greJ^ 



Hah. Canada ; U.S.A., Eastern and Central States, New York, 

 Zeller and Grote Colls. {Matheiv), 3 c? , 4 $ , Ohio, Columbus, 1 6 , 

 Georgia, 1 c? , 1 $, Florida, Texas. Exp. 76-90 millim. 



Larva. French, Papilio, ii. p. 167 ; Kcebele, Bull. Brooklyn Ent. Soc. iv. 

 p. 22. 



Blackish striped with two shades of brown, the dorsal area paler ; 

 two subdorsal black lines and a lateral line ; 8th somite with a pale 

 orange protuberance spotted with black ; head brown mottled with 

 blackish. 



The young larva is whitish green, after the 2nd moult almost 

 black. Food-plants, Willow and Foplar. 



7181, Catocala conjuncta. 



Noctua conjuvcta, Esp. Schmett. iv. pi. 99 b. if. 3, 4 (1786) ; GolK. Lep. 



Fr. V. p. 74, pi. 47. f. 1 ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 248. 

 ]S'ociua conjuga, Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noet. f. 335 (1802). 

 Catocala digressa, Th.-Mieg, Le Natural. (2) iii. p. 181 (1889). 



Head and thorax red-brown mixed with some ochreous and white 

 scales, the prothorax with narrow blackish band, the patagia with 

 black scales near edges ; the tarsi and spurs banded blackish and 

 white ; abdomen ochreous brown, the anal tuft fuscous, whitish at 

 tip, the ventral surface whitish mixed with ochreous brown. Fore 

 wang red-brown mixed with whitish and fuscous ; subbasal line 

 black, sinuous, from costa to submediau fold ; antemedial line black, 

 sinuous, a broad whitish band irrorated with brown beyond it ; 

 reniform defined by black at sides and with traces of a whitish 

 annulus, a dark patch above it on costa ; a rounded whitish spot 

 irrorated with brown and defined by black below end of cell ; some 

 whitish beyond the cell ; postmedial line black slightly defined on 

 outer side by white, bent outwards below costa, then obliquely 

 downcurved, angled outwards above and below vein 5, then in- 

 curved, excurved at submedian fold and angled inwards at vein 1 ; 

 subterminal line rather diffused, whitish defined on outer side by 

 slight dentate dark marks, oblique and incurved to below vein 7, 

 then dentate ; a waved black line before termen defined on outer 

 side by whitish points ; cilia fuscous at base, chequered brown and 

 whitish at tips. Hind wing crimson, the hair on inner margin 

 brown ; a narrow obliquely curved medial black band from costa 

 to vein 1 ; terminal area blaclc narrowing to tornus, its inner edge 

 incurved between veins 4 and 2; the termen slightly white tinged 

 with crimson and the cilia white towards apex, then series of white 

 points on termen and at tips of cilia to vein 2. Uuderside of fore 



