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CATOCALA NEOGAMA. 
one interrupted with a series of small white spots. 
The thorax is olive and the abdomen yellow. On 
the under side the anterior wings are yellowish, the 
tips brown, and there is a black streak running 
from the lower comer to the posterior edge; the 
under side of the posterior wings nearly like the 
upper. 
Cramer states that his specimens are both from 
the coast of Coromandel and Surinam (?). Drury 
obtained it from Bengal. 
CATOCALA NEOGAMA. 
PLATE XXVI. Fig. 1. 
Abbot and Smith, Lepid. Georg., vol. ii. pi. 88 ; O.'iv. F.nryc. 
Method, p. 291. 
The characteristic features of this genus have been 
described at length, in giving the history of certain 
of the species occurring in Britain.* The foreign 
species are numerous, but none of them exceed in 
size or beauty our own rare C. Fraxini. They are 
natives of temperate climates. J?he caterpillars are 
called half-loopers, that is, they curve upwards a 
Nat. Lib. Brit. Moths, p. 242. 
