462 FIFTH REPORT OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL COMMISSION. 
36. Baphia /rater Grote. 
The caterpillar rests on the midrib on the under side of poplar leaves. 
It varies considerably in size, the males being much smaller and more 
slender than the females. It spun a stout, blackish cocoon on bark 
September 10, the moth appearing June 10 following. " It is this larva 
or its ally, H abrupta, that is figured in Harris' Correspondence, PI. I, 
Pig. 0, as Notodonta sp. found under maple. n (K. Thaxter, Papilio, iii, 
p. 13.) Mr. Graef had previously reared the moth from a larva found 
feeding on the silver-leaf poplar. (Proc. Eut. Soc. Phil., ii, p. 43o.) 
Larva.— Color generally dark, somewhat bluish-green, though subject to consider- 
able variation of tint. Body covered with scattered bright yellow points, about 
twenty on each segment. A dorsal hump on segment 2 surmounted by two short, 
blunt, red prominences. On the dorsal surface of segments 4, 8, 11 is a transverse 
mottled red-purple transverse baud, interrupted centrally and somewhat crescent- 
shaped, which is bordered posteriorly and externally with more or less clear yelh w. 
A lateral red point on segments 1 and 2. Legs and prolegs light green, with a minute 
lateral black point. Length, 40 mm (1.60 inch.) (Thaxter.) 
Moth. — Anterior wings bright steel gray, median lines black, distinct. Transverse 
anterior line black, slightly bent, ruuniug in an oblique direction from costa toward 
the base of the wing till near the internal margin, where it forms a deep sinuate 
abrupt rounded outward reflection. Median space gray, showing a black zigzag 
median shade-line and black costal mark. Reuiform and orbicular spots distinct, 
ringed with black, grayish, the former with a dark central streak, the latter con- 
tiguous to the transverse anterior line, with a clear, grayish center, and beneath it 
the clariforin spot margined with black. Transverse posterior line black, narrow, 
augulated, much projected, and arcuated superiorly, followed by a grayish coincident 
shade. Subtermiual space with a slightly browuish tinge ; subterminal hair dark gray 
bordered outwardly by a lighter shade; veins marked with blackish ; terminal line 
black; fringes blackish, narrowly interrupted with gray at the extremities of the 
veins. Posterior wings whitish, clouded with grayish at anal angles, with a distinct 
black terminal line, and a very faint median grayish line ; fringes gray, darker shaded 
between the veins. Under surface of anterior wings gray, showing a black, discal 
lunule and a macular subterminal band. Costa with some small blackish spots. 
Under surface of hind wings lighter than in the forewings, showing a blackish discal 
lunule and a similar macular undulating baud. Thorax grayish ; teguhe narrowly 
bordered with black ; abdomen crested on all the segments, grayish, exceeding the 
hind wings. Expanse of wings, 1.20 to 1.50 inches. (Grote.) 
37. Catocala meskei Grote. 
This and the succeeding species of Catocala (No. 33) have been bred 
by Mr. R. Bunker from the poplar. The caterpillar is more uniform in 
color than usual. 
Larva. — Color light drab or cream. Head bilobed, ringed in front by a narrow, 
dark brown line; extremity of body forked. Between the fifth and sixth segments 
is a light brown band. An elevated band of obscure brown occurs on the seventh 
segment. Under side blackish brown. Length^ inches. (Bunker, Can. Ent., xv, p. 
100.) 
Moth. — Forewings dentate, pulverulent, of a rather lighter gray than C. unijuga. 
Median lines black, single, not very distinct. A whitish space before the large biau- 
uulate concolorous reniform spot ; subreniform spot likewise whitish, closed, joined 
to the transverse posterior line, the latter jagged but without very prominent discal 
