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Fresh specimens are considerably blacker on the primaries than the specimen figured on plate I, figure 16. The 

 characteristic black cross-lines, in course much as we find in consors, readily separate it from the other black-winged species. 

 It appears early in the season and extends over practically the same territory as innubens. 



Wormsbacher (1912, Zeitsch. fur wiss. Ins. Biol, VIII, p. 257) records oak as the food-plant of the larva but we imagine 

 this is erroneous; larvae bred by us from the egg refused all food-plants but hickory. 



Group IV 

 (Catabapta Hulst) 



Egg unknown. Larva without dorsal warts or lateral filaments. Male claspers either symmetrical or only slightly 

 asymmetrical; apex of claspers rather pointed and projecting well beyond the less highly chitinized ventral area. 



This group comprises the Myrica-f eeders, as far as the early stages are known. We have included coelebs in the group 

 on account of its similarity to badia in general appearance, a resemblance which is further borne out by the male genitalia. 

 In muliercula the male genitalia are practically symmetrical, while the other three species show a slight asymmetry, the 

 dorsal area of the left clasper being more strongly chitinized than the corresponding area of the right clasper; the harpes 

 are very broad at the base. Detailed information concerning the early stages of all the species of this group is greatly 

 to be desired. 



Catocala muliercula Guenee 



Plate VII, fig. 24; PL XII, fig. 13 (larva); PI. XVIII, figs. 9-10 (claspers). 



Catocala muliercula Guenee, 1852, Hist. Nat. Spec. Gen. Lep., VII, p. 97; PI. n, fig. 15. Beutenmuller, 1902, Bull. Amer. Mus. 



Nat. Hist., XVI, p. 390. 

 Catabapta muliercula var. peramans Hulst, 1881, Bull. Brooklyn Ent. Soc, VII, p. 50. 



The deep brown color of the primaries is. characteristic; the form described by Hulst as peramans is an aberration 

 with the yellow areas of secondaries greatly reduced so that the wings are almost black. 



The larva is quite unknown to us and we have been unable to verify the correctness of the figure given on plate XII, 

 figure 13. In his manuscript Beutenmuller has noted that the larvse are variable and that from several hundred which he 

 collected and supposed to be muliercula both this species and badia were bred; he was unable to find satisfactory characters 

 to separate the two species. 



The species is more or less confined to the Atlantic Coast States where the food-plant abounds. French records 

 it from Illinois (1881, Synop. Catocalse 111., p. 8) but we personally do not know of its occurrence in this state. We have 

 a few specimens before us labelled Houston, Texas, but cannot vouch for the correctness of the label. Further information 

 regarding distribution and early stages is much to be desired. 



Catocala antinympha (Hubner) 



Plate VII, fig. 15; PI. XII, fig/ 14 (larva); PI. XVIII, figs. 11 and 12 (claspers). 



Phalcena (Noctua) paranympha Drury (nee Linnaeus), 1770, 111. Exot. Ent., I, p. 49, PL xxm, fig. 6; and 1773, App., II. 



Ephesia antinympha Hubner, 1825, Verz. bek. Schmett., p. 278. 



Catocala affinis Westwood, 1837, Drury, Exot. Ent., New Ed., I, p. 44, PI. xxm, fig. 6. 



Catocala melanympha Guenee, 1852, Hist. Nat. Spec. Gen. Lep., VII, p. 98. 



Catocala antinympha Beutenmuller, 1902, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., XVI, p. 392, PL lii, fig. 19 (larva). 



The secondaries in the figure (PL VII, fig. 15) are paler than is usually found. The small size and blackish velvety 

 color of the primaries render the species easily recognizable. 



The larva is unknown to us except from prepared material which corresponds as far as we can tell with the figure 

 given (PI. XII, fig. 14). 



The species is distinctly more northern in its range than muliercula occurring from Ontario and Quebec south through 

 the New England States to Maryland. It has been recorded from Pennsylvania (Engel, 1908, Ann. Cam. Mus., V, 

 p. 59) and Beutenmuller's manuscript mentions Wisconsin, but we have no definite data regarding its presence in this 

 latter state. 



