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BARNES AND McDUNNOUGH: CATOCALA 



Catocala ophelia Hy. Edwards 



Plate VIII, figs. 13 and 14; PI. XIV, fig. 8 (larva); PL XV, fig. 26 (larval head); PI. XV, fig. 34, 

 and PL XVI, fig. 8 (segments); PL XXII, fig. 12 (claspers). 



Catocala ophelia Hy. Edwards, 1880, Bull. Brooklyn Ent. Soc, II, p. 95. Beutenmuller, 1907, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. XXIII 



p. 939. Barnes and McDunnough, 1913, Psyche, II, p. 194 (larva). 

 Catocala verrilliana Holland (nee Grote), 1903, Moth Book, p. 265, PL xxxiv, fig. 16. 

 Catocala ophelia var. dolli Beutenmuller, 1907, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., XXIII, p. 940. 



The conformation of the t. p. line separates this species from both violenta and verrilliana. A dark form with brown- 

 shaded primaries has been named dolli by Beutenmuller, the type being figured on plate VIII, figure 14. 



The larva is markedly distinct from that ol verrilliana, as may be seen by a comparison of the figures, thus establish- 

 ing the validity of the species. 



The type of this species came from Mendocino County, California; we possess entirely similar specimens from Glen- 

 wood Springs, Colorado, and Provo, Utah, so that the range is apparently quite extended. 



SECTION III 



Eunetis Hubner, 1823, Zutrage Exot. Schmett., II, p. 26, fig. 347 (type, ultronia Hiibner). 

 Corisce Hubner, 1825, Verzeichniss, p. 278 (type, arnica Hubner). 



Fore and hind tibiae unspined; mid -tibiae spined. 



While individual specimens of the species included in the previous section may show unspined hind tibiae, an unspined 

 condition of the hind tibiae is apparently the normal state of the species included in the present section; we have, at least, 

 been unable to find spines on any of the numerous specimens examined. Hampson has used the generic term Ephesia 

 Hubner for the section with unspined hind tibiae, relegating Eunetis Hubner (1825, Verz., p. 276) to the synonymy of Cato- 

 cala Schrank with the type wrongly stated as puerpera Ochsenheimer, the first species listed under this heading in the 

 'Verzeichniss.' Eunetis, however, was first used before 1823 by Hubner in the 'Zutrage/ II, p. 26, figures 347 and 348, 

 for the single species ultronia, the genus being thus monotypical with ultronia as type. In this connection we might note 

 that Ephesia was first used by Hubner in the ' Zutrage ' in connection with elonympha (Figs. 29 and 30) and later in the 

 same work with arnica (Figs. 57 and 58), whereas in the 'Verzeichniss' new genera are established for both of these species. 

 As it is fairly well established that Hubner issued the plates of the 'Zutrage' a few at a time, it is probable that the plate 

 with the figure of Ephesia elonympha (PI. V) appeared prior to that containing the figure of arnica (Plate x) and that 

 therefore the type of the genus Ephesia must be taken to be elonympha, the genus being monotypical. In any case, the 

 type, according to our view, would have to be selected from these two species since both plates of the 'Zutrage' appeared 

 long before the portion of the 'Verzeichniss' containing the genus Ephesia. 



Group XVII 



{Eunetis Hubner) 



Egg (as far as known) very flat at apex and base, circular, with faint lateral ribbing, covered with an albuminous 

 cement and laid in rows in a crevice. Larva with lateral filaments and a dorsal wart on the fifth abdominal segment, 

 which is usually long and pointed. Male claspers symmetrical, with a distinct chitinous dorsal rim which ends pointedly 

 at the apex but does not exceed the thinly chitinized ventral area. 



The early stages of several species included in this group are unknown and their position is, therefore, tentative. 

 The position of clintoni is rather doubtful, as Dodge's short description of the egg would seem to show it to be similar 

 to the flat egg of the walnut-feeders; the larva, however, shows the fleshy horn in some of its earlier stages; the apex 

 of the male claspers is rather more rounded than is usual. 



The larvae, as far as is known, are all feeders on Rosaceae. 



