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specimen) is similar to the type form with the addition of a pale subreniform and a pale band beyond the t. a. line- it 

 was described from Texan material; many specimens from this locality are heavily suffused with black-brown (Fig 28) 

 and others show, besides this, a black basal dash (Fig. 29); to such specimens the name ouwdh would apply. Hero Hv 

 Edwards (Figs. 23, 24, and 27), the type from Florida, is a form with prominent white shading in the median area while 

 gisela Meyer (Fig. 30) is a very striking form from the South (Georgia) with dark median area and white terminal band 

 Typical specimens of this latter form are rare but transitional forms with a prominent white s. t. line (Fig. 21) are more 

 common. 



The species has a wide range, occurring over the greater portion of the eastern half of the United States. In the New 

 England States it has not been recorded north of Massachusetts nor have we it listed from Quebec; it has, however, been 

 reported from Ontario (Rep. Ent. Soc. Ont. for 1885, p. 60). 



Catocala Cordelia Hy. Edwards 



Plate IX, fig. 19; PI. XXII, figs. 28 and 29 (claspers). 



Phalcena amasia Abbot and Smith (nee Esper), 1797, Nat. Hist. Ins. Georgia, II, p. 179, PL xc (partim). 



Catocala Cordelia Hy. Edwards, 1880, Bull. Brooklyn Ent. Soc, III, p. 59. Betjtenmuller, 1907, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat Hist XXXIII 

 p. 146. 



Smith, as distinctly stated in the text, based his diagnosis of amasia on the upper right-hand figure of plate xc and 

 the name must be held to this species; the lower figure is that of similis Edwards. As, however, amasia Abbot and Smith 

 is preoccupied by amasia Esper the next oldest name, cordelia Hy. Edwards, must be applied to this species. It is char- 

 acterized by the broad, whitish, median area with paucity of maculation. We agree with Beutenmiiller in correcting 

 French's misidentification of this species (Can. Ent., XXXIV, p. 97) and referring his figures 2 and 3 to amasia, not his 

 figure 1; French's copy of Abbot's figure is poor, the t. p. line being far too greatly accentuated. 



The species occurs through the Atlantic Coast and Gulf States to Texas and has been reported from southern Illinois 

 by French and from eastern Kansas by Snow (Trans. Kan. Acad. Sci., VII, p. 51). 



Catocala connubialis Guenee 



Plate IX, fig. 21. 



Catocala connubialis Guenee, 1852, Hist. Nat. Spec. Gen. Lep., VII, p. 105. 



Catocala amasia Strecker (nee Abbot and Smith), 1874, Lep. Rhop. Het., p. 77, PI. ix, fig. 12. Holland, 1903, Moth Book, p. 268, 



PI. xxxv, fig. 1. 

 Catocala sancta Hulst, 1884, Bull. Brooklyn Ent. Soc, VII, p. 38. 

 Catocala amasia var. virens French, 1886, Can. Ent., XVIII, p. 162. 



This possibly may prove to be merely a strongly marked form of cordelia Hy. Edwards; the two forms occur through- 

 out the same territory and apparently together, to judge by French's remarks. A few specimens before us seem rather 

 to intergrade with cordelia. Until the early stages of both forms are known, we prefer to treat them as separate species; 

 we would note, however, that the male genitalia are absolutely identical. We hardly imagine that GueneVs note that the 

 larva feeds on Cephalanthus will prove correct; it was based on a drawing by Abbot who frequently figured his larvae on 

 plants upon which it has since been proved they never feed; presumably the larva is an oak-feeder. 



Group XX 

 (Corisce Hiibner) 



Egg unknown. Larva with short lateral filaments but without a dorsal wart. Male claspers symmetrical, with very 

 pointed and rather serrate apices. 



The egg will probably be similar to those of the preceding groups; the larvse are oak-feeders. Hampson's separation 

 of the genus Corisce on the ground that the abdominal tufting is absent is not very good; the abdomen is scarcely smoother 

 in appearance than those of several of the smaller yellow-hind-winged species of the preceding groups. 



