CATOCALA INSOLAB1LIS. Guenee. 
Spec. Gen., Yol. VI I, p. 94. 
(PLATE V, FIG. 1, g) 
Expands 3 inches. 
Thorax, above, dark grey ; abdomen blackish ; beneath white. 
Upper surface, primaries greyish white, powdered with minute brown scales ; the trans- 
verse lines are black; reniform small and surrounded by a brown annulus ; a black apical 
dash ; interior margin shaded with black ; fringes dark grey. 
Secondaries entirely black, with black fringes. 
Under surface has bases of all wings white, rest black, with exception of slight indications 
of narrow white bands, most noticeable on the secondaries. 
Habitat. Xew York, Pennsylvania, X. Jersey and Maryland. 
Easy enough to distinguish from the other species by the dark shading of interior margin 
of upper surface of primaries, and the black fringes of secondaries ; it is a slighter built 
insect than either Viduata, Lachrymosa or Desperata, to none of which does it bear any 
particular resemblance when placed side by side. This may rank among our rarer species as 
nowhere has it been found in any plenty. 
CATOCALA DESPEEATA. Guenee. 
Spec. Gen., Yol. VII, p. 9o. 
Phalrena Yidua. Abbot & Smith Lepid., Georgia, Vol. II, p. 181, Pi. 91. 
(PLATE V, FIG. 2, J’.) 
Expands 3 inches. 
Head and thorax above, light grey, with distinct dark lines; abdomen blackish brown, 
beneath dirty white. 
Upper surface, primaries light grey ; transverse anterior line double, black, and, as well 
as the transverse posterior line, very distinct and well defined ; reniform moderately large, 
oval, and surrounded by a double line ; a black dash, broken in the middle, runs from base to 
sub-reniform ; the usual black sub-apical dash, from which a dark shade passes to the reniform 
and from thence inwards and upwards to the costa ; sub-terminal line joined inwardly with 
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