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Catocala miranda Hy. Edwards 



Plate VIII, fig. 22; PI. XXII, fig. 13 (clasper). 



Catocala miranda Hy. Edwards, 1881, Papilio, I, p. 118. Beutenmuller, 1907, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., XXIII, p. 940. 



This is a rare species which generally has been wrongly associated with Judith, which it resembles somewhat in size, 

 totally differing, however, in structural details. We only know the species from the type specimen in the American Mu- 

 seum and the slide of the genitalia made by Beutenmuller but believe it will prove to be correctly associated with the ultronia 

 group. The species has been recorded only from Washington, D. C. 



Catocala orba Kusnezov 

 Plate VIII, fig. 21; PI. XXII, fig. 14 (clasper). 

 Catocala orba Kusnezov, 1903, Rev. Russe Ent., Ill, p. 166, figs, la and 16. French, 1903, Can. Ent., XXXV, pp. 3, 43. 



The species is very closely allied to miranda Hy. Edwards and may prove, when more material is available, to be 

 merely a race of this species; it is larger, as far as can be judged by the few available specimens, but the maculation is 

 very similar. The species is known only from Texas. 



Catocala ultronia (Hubner) 



Plate VII, figs. 17-20; PL X, fig. 22, and PL XV, fig. 11 (larval head); PL XII, figs. 15 and 17 (larva); PL XXII, fig. 15 (clasper). 



Eunetis ultronia Hubner, 1823, Zutr. Exot. Schmett., p. 26, figs. 347 and 348. 



Catocala ultronia Saunders, 1874, Can. Ent., VI, p. 147 (larva). Beutenmuller, 1907, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., XXIII, p. 147. 



Barnes and McDunnough, 1918, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., XXXVIII, p. 171. 

 Catocala ultronia var. mopsa Hy. Edwards, 1880, Bull. Brooklyn Ent. Soc, III, p. 58. 

 Catocala ultronia var. adriana Hy. Edwards, 1880, Bull. Brooklyn Ent. Soc, III, p. 57. 

 Catocala ultronia var. celia Hy. Edwards, 1880, Bull. Brooklyn Ent. Soc, III, p. 58. 

 Catocala ultronia var. lucinda Beutenmuller, 1907, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., XXIII, p. 940. 

 Catocala ultronia form nigrescens Cassino, 1917, The Lepidopterist, I, p. 79, PL vi. 



The typical form of this well-known species, as figured by Hubner, is that found on plate VII, figure 20; it has been 

 redescribed by Hy. Edwards under the name mopsa. A paler form, for a long time considered to be the typical form, 

 has been designated by Beutenmuller lucinda (Fig. 17); in this form the inner margin of primaries is broadly brown. A 

 still paler form with more extended but less sharply defined dark shades is adriana Hy. Edwards (Fig. 19) ; there are all 

 manner of intergrades between this and the preceding form. Nigrescens Cassino is an occasional aberration in which the 

 entire primaries are suffused with black-brown. Celia Hy. Edwards (Fig. 18) is probably a good racial form, from Florida 

 and the Southern States, in which the dark median band on the secondaries is much narrower; it shows the same range 

 of variation in the coloration of the primaries as is found in the type form. 



It is quite possible that some of the so-called forms have developed into well-defined geographical races in certain 

 localities, notably in the North and South. From ova laid by several females received from northern Ontario, we bred 

 a long series of specimens which, without exception, were of a form resembling a very bright and contrasted lucinda; ova 

 from Iowa resulted in imagines of both the type form and typical lucinda; careful breeding from various eastern and south- 

 ern localities is necessary to establish the status of the various forms. 



The species is wide-spread, occurring over the whole eastern half of the United States and ranging northward into 

 Quebec and Ontario. As we have the species from Hymers in northwestern Ontario, it is probable that it occurs also in 

 Manitoba, although we have found no published record of this. 



Catocala cratsegi Saunders 



Plate X, figs. 4 and 5; PL X, fig. 21 (larval head); PL XII, fig. 18 (larva); PL XXII, fig. 19 (clasper). 



Catocala cratwgi Saunders, 1876, Can. Ent., VIII, p. 72. 

 Catocala pretiosa Lintner, 1876, Can. Ent., VIII, p. 121. 



This species was based largely on a larval description; one of the types, however, is in the British Museum ex Grote 

 Collection and is figured by Hampson (Cat. Lep. Phal., PI. cc, fig. 16), this figure agreeing with that on our plate X, figure 



