178 FIFTH REPORT OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL COMMISSION. 
with the transverse posterior line. Beyond the spots the median space is shaded 
with black. Sometimes the whole wing is shaded with blackish to the trausveree 
posterior line, leaving the reniform as a large white blotch without the anuulus. 
Again, the wing wants the glaucous scales and the reniform is concolorous or merely 
shows a few white scales. Hind wings orange-red, with an irregular black median 
hand tapering to the margin. Basal hairs fuscous. Average expanse of wings 75 mm . 
Maryland and Virginia. (Grote.) 
Mr. Hulst remarks that in var. uxor Guen£e the fore wings are brown- 
gray, the reuifonu spot white; in the Californian var. zoe Behr, the 
hind wings are lighter orange; in the YSiT.osculata Hulst, from Arizona, 
the hind wings are clear yellow. C. ilia, he adds, is the most variable 
of all our species. In some cases the fore wings are strongly mixed 
with blue. 
'247. Catocala epione (Drnry). 
The caterpillar is said by Gueuee, on the authority of Abbot's manu- 
script drawings, to feed on the oak. 
Larva. — Body reddish gray, marbled with bluish gray ; a subdorsal black line 
interrupted at the middle of each segment ; a paler lateral band ; no protuberances ; 
head gray, with two red points. 
Moth. — Fore wings very dark gray ; lines heavy ; transverse posterior line not 
strougly augulated. and almost without a sinus; the reniform spot reddish; a red- 
dish band beyond the transverse posterior line, then lighter, often almost white, 
serrated outwardly. Hind wings black; fringes pure white. 
248. Catocala vidua (Abbot and Smith). 
According to Abbot this species feeds on the willow, locust, and 
other species of oaks ; Mr. Angus has bred it from the hickory and Mr. 
Koebele from the walnut. 
Larva. — Greenish gray, with many black lines ; whiter laterally ; slight protuber- 
ances on each segment ; head gray, edged behind with black. 
Moth. — Fore wings with the color of C. retecta and markings of luctuosa. though 
these are in the present species heavier and more decided; transverse anterior line 
heavily geminate, connecting half way with the heavy black basal dash ; apical and 
sinus shading heavy ; trausverse posterior line with |V| very much produced. Hind 
wings black, sligbtly gray at base; deep white fringe; in some specimens there is 
near the auterior margin a faint indication of a white median baud. Expand- 
90 mm . Middle, Western, and Southern States. (Hulst.) 
249. Catocala lachrymosa Gnene*e. 
Said by Mr. Hulst to probably teed ou the oak and walnut. 
Moth. — Fore wiugs light cinereous, heavily and quite uniformly powdered with 
black atoms; slight basal dash present: lines fairly strong, but often lost in the 
black powdering; transverse anterior line often confused and broken: trat tt 
anterior line with teeth medium : reniform spot brownish ; a brownish band beyond 
the transverse posterior line. Hind wings black, fringe white, black at end of veins. 
Expands ?;> to 85 mm . Lower Middle and Western States aud southward. Var. Clulume 
differs in being less strongly powdered with black, and in having [both J the lines more 
distinct. Var. zelica French has a transverse anterior line inwardly and transverse 
anterior line outwardly, baring a black baud across the wing. Var. paalina Hy. 
Edw., fore wings black to the transverse posterior line. 
