BARNES AND McDUNNOUGH: CATOCALA 15 



Catocala palaeogama Guenee 



PI. VI, figs. 18-20; PL XI, fig. 11, PI. XIII, fig. 4 (larva); PL XV, fig. 6 (larval head); PL XV, fig. 30, and PL XVII, 



fig. 5 (segments); PL XIX, figs. 17 and 18 (claspers). 



Catocala palceogama Guenee, 1852, Hist. Nat. Spec. Gen. Lep., VII, p. 97. French, 1888, Can. Ent., XX, p. 108 (larva). Beuten- 



muller, 1902, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., XVI, p. 388, PL lii, fig. 12 (larva). 

 Catocala phalanga Grote, 1864, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil., Ill, p. 6, PL in, fig. 1. 

 Catocala paleogama var. annida Fager, 1882, Can. Ent., XIV, p. 120. 



This common species is very similar to the preceding in its range of variation; as in lacrymosa, the females are more 

 contrastingly marked than the males (PL VI, fig. 18) and we have much the same tendency to brown suffusion exhibited, 

 the forms phalanga Grote (Fig. 19) and annida Fager (Fig. 20) corresponding to zelica and evelina respectively. 



The larval stages have been fully described by Prof. French and our own breeding experiments have verified his 

 results. There are six larval stages with five molts. As the figure given by Beutenmuller (PL XI, fig. 11) is not entirely 

 satisfactory, we have reflgured the larva on plate XIII, figure 4. 



The geographical distribution of this species corresponds with that of lacrymosa but it is much commoner in the 

 Northern States and in Ontario. 



Catocala nebulosa Edwards 

 Plate VI, fig. 17; PL XIX, figs. 9 and 10 (claspers). 



Catocala nebulosa Edwards, 1864, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil., II, p. 510. Rowley, 1912, Ent. News, XXIII, p. 209 (larva). 

 Catocala ponderosa Grote and Robinson, 1866, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil., VI, p. 23, PL iv, fig. 2. 



This species is readily recognizable from the figure; the dark basal area is very characteristic. 



Apart from Rowley's note on the young larvse and the statement that they refused to eat a number of the ordinary 

 food-plants offered them on hatching, nothing is known of the early stages. 



The species is rare but wide-spread; it has been reported from as far north as Hamilton, Ontario (Johnston, 1901, 

 Rep. Ent. Soc. Ont. for 1900, p. 40) and extends from the Mississippi and Ohio valleys into the Eastern States. 



Catocala subnata Grote 



Plate VI, figs. 15 and 16; PL XIX, figs. 13 and 14 (claspers). 

 Catocala subnata Grote, 1864, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil., Ill, p. 326, PL iv, fig. 5. 



Apart from the paler secondaries with broader yellow postmedian band, this species may be distinguished from 

 neogama by the paler gray color of the primaries with a tendency to develop a rather prominent white costal patch before 

 the reniform. The males (PL VI, fig. 16) never show the black basal dash commonly (although not always) found in 

 neogama males; the females are more contrastingly marked than the males and possess a basal dash but this is much 

 narrower than in neogama females and is clean cut, without any of the dark shades above it so frequently seen in neogama. 



The early stages are unknown but the larva is probably a hickory-feeder. 



The species has been reported from Ontario (as far north as Ottawa) and Quebec and has a similar range to that of 

 the preceding species. It is nowhere very common. 



Catocala neogama (Abbot and Smith) 



Plate VI, figs. 10-12; PL X, fig. 29 (larval head); PL XI, figs. 8 and 9 (larva); PL XIX, figs. 11 and 12 (claspers). 



Phalaena neogama Abbot and Smith, 1797, Nat. Hist. Lep. Ins. Georgia, II, p. 175, PL Ixxxviii. Dodge, 1901, Can. Ent., XXXIII, 

 p. 299 (larva). Beutenmuller, 1902, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., XVI, p. 385, PL lii, fig. 5 (larva). Barnes and McDunnough, 

 1918, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., XXXVIII, p. 156. 



Catocala communis Grote, 1872, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, IV, p. 9. 



Catocala snowiana Grote, 1876, Check List North Amer. Noc, II, p. 41; 1882, Papilio, II, p. 8. 



We have already noted the points of distinction between this and the preceding species. Figure 10 of plate VI repre- 

 sents a very pale male with only traces of the basal black streak; we have specimens before us that lack this streak entirely 



