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CATOCALA AMASIA. 
PLATE XXVI. Fig. 3. 
Abbot and Smith, tepid. Geoff., vol. ii. pi. 90 ; Oliv. Encyc. 
Method., p. 290. 
Considerably less than the preceding, the wings 
expanding little more than two inches. Head and 
thorax light grey ; abdomen yellow : upper wings 
variegated with ash-grey and white, the surface 
variously marked with dark spots and transverse 
streaks ; in the centre there is an ear-shaped mark, 
and towards the exterior margin a dark zigzag line 
with a row of fulvous spots within it. The under 
wings are yellow, with two curved black bands, the 
innermost one narrow and not reaching to the ab- 
dominal margin, the exterior one broad and inter- 
rupted near the anal angle ; the fringe yellow, 
slightly clouded with dusky. 
The caterpillar is grey, with darker lines along 
the sides. Its most common food is the various 
kinds of American oaks ; Abbot found it also on 
the Bead-tree, or Pride of China ( Melia azedaraek , 
Linn.). The author just named found that it spun 
among the leaves in the beginning of May, and 
came out near the end of that month. He adds, 
