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segments inclusive, there is a dull white dot, and one also of a similar character in 
front of each of the spiracles along the middle segments of the body ; from each of 
the tubercles throughout there arises a single dark short hair. Spiracles large, oval, 
dull grayish, faintly encircled with black. Along the sides of the body, close to the 
under surface, is a thick friuge of short, fleshy-looking hairs, of a delicate pink 
color. Under surface of a delicate pink, of a deeper shade along the middle, becom- 
ing bluish towards the margins, with a central row of nearly round, velvety black 
spots, which are largest from the seventh to eleventh segments inclusive. Anterior 
segments greenish white, tinted with rosy pink along the middle, with a dull reddish 
spot at the base and behind each pair of feet. .Thoracic feet pale greenish, spotted 
outside and tipped with black ; abdominal legs dull grayish brown, margined with 
black. Length 1.60 inches. (Saunders, Can. Ent., vi, 148.) 
Moth. — Fore wings light-gra} r fawn, dark, almost black, along the inner margin ; 
a basal dash and one at sinus present; a subapical dark shading; outer line fine, 
strongly dentated to sinus. Hind wings bright red, median band broad, rather even, 
reaching the anal margin. Expands 60 to 70 mm . Habitat, east of the great plains 
and Texas. 
Var. celia Hy. Edw. median baud of hind wings linear. Florida. 
Var. mopsa Hy. Edw. Fore wings nearly uniform brown. 
Var. adriana Hy. Edw. Fore wings nearly uniform fawn drab. 
Var. herodias Streck. Fore wings uniform dark smoky gray ; denticulations of 
outer line very strong, and thus continued to inner margin. (Hulst.) 
246. Catocala ilia (Cramer). 
The caterpillar of this inoth has been reared by Messrs. Koebele, 
Caulfleld, French, and by Thaxter, in Massachusetts, from various spe- 
cies of oak. The moth is said by Grote to be an exceedingly common 
aud very variable species. It is found from Canada, Maryland, and 
Virginia southward to the West Indies. Mr. Caulfleld states that the 
caterpillar was fully grown by June 15 at Montreal ; it spun up in a 
leaf June 18 and the moth emerged the latter end of July. Prof. G. 
H. French gives a detailed account of its early stages in the Canadian 
Entomologist for January, 1884. 
Larva. — Head heart-shaped, strongly bilobed, pale green, with white blotches, 
twelve short, black hairs in front, and near the top of the head there are four small 
tubercles of a white color, each of which is tipped with a black hair; head sur- 
rounded with a broken border of dark streaks. Body with the upper surface greenish 
gray, with an interrupted dorsal band of delicate blue-gray spots, the whole minutely 
spotted with black. On the secoud segment are twelve small, white hairs, four on 
fourth, fifth and sixth segments, six on the seventh, four on the eighth to twelfth, 
six on the thirteenth. The sides delicate blue-gray, marbled with spots of green aud 
black, with a broken lateral band of a green color; spiracles yellowish white, with 
a black ring; behind each is a large wart, tipped with a black hair. A fringe of 
short, white, fleshy filaments close to the under surface. Body beneath pink, with a 
row of transverse black spots, larger and darker on the middle segments. Feet and 
prolegs grayish white, spotted with green aud black. Length 2\ to 3| mm (Caulfleld 
in part). Koebele states that there is a subdorsal line of slight protuberances, one 
on each segment from the third segment back. There is also a dark lunule with the' 
horns formed on the eleventh segment. 
Moth.—- Fore wings dark cinereous, powdered with glaucous scales and shaded with 
black. A basal ray. Trausverse anterior line geminate. Reniform spot whitish, 
with a small, black internal ring. Subreniform pale, subquadrate. connected usually 
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