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CATOCALA AMASIA. 
that the moth may be often found sitting on the 
trunks of large oaks, and that it is a native of 
Virginia as well as of Georgia. The chrysalis is of 
a delicate lilac tint. (Plate XXVI. fig. 4.) 
The most common of the American yellow under- 
wings is the P/ial. consors of Abbot and Smith 
(pi. 89), which is somewhat intermediate between 
the two just described. It measures two inches and 
three-quarters between the extremities of the fore 
wings ; the surface of these is greyish brown, with 
several angular dark lines and ferruginous marks 
running across ; under wings yellow, with two con- 
tinuous black bands, very irregular on their edges, 
extending to the abdominal margin ; the male with 
black spots on the back of the basal segments of 
the abdomen. The caterpillar frequents the bastard 
indigo ( A morpha fruticosa, Linn.). America like- 
wise possesses a species nearly allied to our C. Frax- 
ini, namely, C. Vidua (Abbot and Smith, pi. 91), 
but it is smaller than the European insect, and 
wants the broad bluish band across the disk of the 
hinder wings. 
