BARNES AND McDUNNOUGH: CATOCALA 31 



The species extends through the Sierra Nevada Mountains southward to the San Bernardino Mountains. Records 

 of this species from Colorado should be transferred, we believe, to astasia. 



Catocala aspasia Strecker 



Plate IV, figs. 16 and 17; PL V, fig. 5; PL XIV, fig. 7 (larva); PL XV, fig. 12 (larval head); PL XV, 

 fig. 37, and PL XVI, fig. 9 (segments); PL XXI, figs. 3 and 4 (claspers). 



Catocala aspasia Strecker, 1874, Lep. Rhop. Het., p. 94. Betttenmuller, 1903, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., XIX, p. 505. Barnes 



and McDtjnnotjgh, 1913, Psyche, XX, p. 198 (larva). 

 Catocala augusta Hy. Edwards, 1875, Pacific Coast Lepid., XV, p. 1. 

 Catocala sara French, 1883, Can. Ent., XV, p. 163. 



It is impossible to determine authentically the species Strecker described as aspasia; his original description is use- 

 less for purposes of identification, the species being compared in a general way with amatrix; the type locality is given as 

 Lower California, which may merely mean southern California or, if correct, would then refer to the Mexican peninsula. 

 In his list of types Strecker lists three specimens from California as the types of aspasia, but these specimens do not exist 

 in the Strecker Collection; under aspasia are seven specimens labelled "Manitou, Colo." and a single specimen, nowise 

 different, merely labelled aspasia; none of these, therefore, can be considered as the original types, concerning the where- 

 abouts of which we are entirely ignorant. 



We apply the name to the species represented by these Colorado specimens, following Reutenmiiller; the typical 

 form would then be that figured on plate V, figure 5, the variation in the color of primaries ranging from pale gray and 

 ochreous to pinkish. A form found in San Diego County, California, and adjacent counties, which may possibly be a 

 good species or a race of stretcJii or even the true aspasia, has been named augusta by Hy. Edwards; it is characterized 

 by heavy maculation, the specimens before us, however, showing less black suffusion on the primaries than in Beuten- 

 muller's figure (PL IV, fig. 16). Sara French (Fig. 17), of which a cotype still exists in the Strecker Collection, is a form 

 of aspasia with strong blackish suffusion on the primaries, at times covering a greater portion of the wing; it corresponds 

 to the form sierra? of stretchi and is generally rather rare. 



The species appears to be common in the central Rocky Mountain States, occurring late in the season; it extends 

 into Arizona and New Mexico. It has been recorded (Can. Ent., XXXII, p. 95) from Cartwright, Manitoba, where it 

 is very rare. The record of augusta from Kaslo, British Columbia, (Dyar, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. XXVII, p. 878) is doubt- 

 ful; it may refer to nevadensis Beutenmuller and needs verification; augusta, as far as we know, is strictly limited to 

 southern California. 



Group XI 



(Lamprosia Hubner) 



Egg hemispherical, ribbed, the secondary branches arising very regularly from the equatorial zone of the egg. Larva 

 with lateral filaments and a transverse dorsal wart on the fifth abdominal segment. Male claspers symmetrical, the apex 

 being rounded. 



The peculiar ribbing on the egg and the symmetrical nature of the male claspers easily separate this group from the 

 preceding. The larvae are willow-feeders and normally have five molts, although concumbens with four shows affinity 

 to the preceding group. 



Catocala cara Guenee 



Plate III, figs. 9 and 10; PI. X, fig. 38 (larval head); PL XI, figs. 1 and 2 (larva); PI. XXI, fig. 9 (clasper). 



Catocala cara Guenee, 1852, Hist. Nat. Spec. Gen. Lep.,, VII, p. 87. French, 1882, Papilio, II, p. 167 (larva). 

 Catocala cara var. carissima Hulst, 1880, Bull. Brooklyn Ent. Soc, II, p. 97. 

 Catocala cara var. silvia Hy. Edwards, 1880, Bull. Brooklyn Ent. Soc, III, p. 57. 



This well-known species needs no further comment on our part. 



The species extends over the whole eastern half of the United States reaching northward into southern Ontario and 

 Maine, where it is rarely met with; it has also been recorded from South Dakota (Ent. News, VIII, p. 28). In the south- 

 ern portion of its range (Texas to Florida) it forms the race carissima Hulst {syhia Hy. Edwards), characterized by the 

 large size and yellowish costal blotches. 



