CATOCALA SERENA. Edwards. 
PROC. ENT. SOC. PHIL., VOL. II, p. 510. 
( PLATE III, FIG. 11. ? ) 
Expands 2^ inches. 
Head and collar chestnut brown ; thorax smoky grey ; abdomen brown. 
Upper surface, primaries same grey as thorax with transverse brownish shades , transverse 
lines narrow but distinct. 
Secondaries deep yellow ; marginal band indented in middle ; median narrow, irregular 
and prominently elbow'ed at centre; basal hairs brown. 
Under surface yellov r , all the bands pretty heavy ; bases of wings obscured with brown 
which color more or less shades the whole under surface. 
Habitat. Xew York, Pennsylvania. 
Rare. Mr. Edwards’ type is in collection of Mr. Wilt, Philadelphia. I took a single 
female examples about a mile from Reading, I also received specimens from my go'od friend 
Mr. Angus of West-Farms, X. Y., in which locality he captured them. 
I trust this plate of Catocalidae may prove acceptable ; the confusion existing in regard 
to the nomenclature of the various species is truly wonderful ; I do not think I would be going 
too far in asserting that there are not over three collections in America in which they are all 
correctly determined ; this is particularly the case with our typical black species. 
As I either possess or have access to examples of all our known species, I will in future 
numbers of this work illustrate the whole of them, probably every third plate I issue will be 
of this genus until they or I am exhausted. 
NOTES ON SOME SPECIES. 
In List of Lepicloptera of X. America by Grote and Robinson, Part 1, (1868,) on page 
VIII, Arctia Speciosissima, Mosch., is* incorrect, it should be Arctia Speciosa, Mosch. 
On same page, right below, A. Quenselii, Geyer, and A. Gelida, Mosch., are given as dis- 
tinct, whereas they are one and the same, Geyer’s name having priority. 
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