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7339; Gatocala cerogama. (Plate CXCIX. fig. 8.) 



Catoccda cei'ogdma, Guen. Noct. iii. p. 98 (1852) ; Streck. Lep. Rhop. 



& Het. p. 22, pi. iii. f. 10 ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 337. 

 Catocala hunkeri, Grote, Can. Ent. viii. p. 230 (1876). 

 Catoccda aurella, Fischer, Can. Ent. xvii. p. 133 (1886). 

 Catocala eliza, Fischer, Can. Ent. xvii. p. 134 (1885). 



Head and thorax white mixed with pale rufous ; palpi whitish 

 at base and in front ; tegulse with two faint rufous lines, the 

 prothorax with faint rufous line ; fore tarsi blackish ringed with 

 white ; abdomen pale rufous, the ventral surface whitish. .Fore 

 wing grey-white mixed with rufous ; subbasal line blackish, waved, 

 from costa to submedian fold, a slight black streak beyond it above 

 vein 1 ; antemedial line blackish slightly defined on inner side by 

 white towards costa and inner margin, very oblique and slightly 

 sinuous from costa to submedian fold, then sinuous and erect, an 

 oblique white band beyond it from costa to below the cell ; 

 reniform faintly defined by red-brown and with some red-brown in 

 centre, an oblique red-brown shade above it from costa ; a rathef 

 triangular white spot defined by blackish below end of cell; 

 postmedial line black slightly defined on outer side by whitish, bent 

 outwards below costa, then oblique and sinuous, acutely angled 

 outwards above and below vein 5, then inwardly oblique and 

 dentate ; subterminal line grey slightly defined on each side by 

 brown, waved, oblique from costa to below vein 6 ; the veins of 

 terminal area slightly streaked with blackish except on the palei* 

 apical area ; a series of blackish strise before termen with slight 

 whitish marks beyond them. Hind wing with the basal area 

 rufous, extending on inner area to the curved orange-yellow 

 postmedial band, the rest of wing black-brown ; the termen 

 narrowly yellow ; cilia creamy white intersected with brown at 

 veins 6 and 2. Underside of fore wing yellowish white, an oblique 

 irregular black-brown shade from below costa before middle to 

 vein 1, a curved black medial band narrowing to inner margin, a 

 curved black subterminal band, the termen brownish grey ; hind 

 wing yellow, a curved black medial band from costa to vein 1, a 

 curved black subterminal band. 



Ab. 1. bunceri. Fore wing suffused with brown to beyond the 

 postmedial line ; hind wing with the basal area browner, the yellow 

 band narrower and more maculate. 



Hab. Canada, Toronto (Gibson), 1 $, Ottawa {Fletcher),! $, 

 Ontario, Orillia (Bush), 1 $ ; U.S.A., Eastern, Middle, and 

 Central States, New York (Grote), 4 c? , 3 5> , Maryland. Exp. 76- 

 90 millim. 



Laria. Dyar, Can. Ent. xxvi. p. 21. 



Ash-grey with many longitudinal series of black points ; 1st 

 somite spotted with black ; a sublateral series of white fringe-like 

 processes; ventral surface yellowish green; 11th somite with two 

 black prominences ; head grey with black markings. Food-plant, 

 Tilia americana. 



