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CATO GALA DESPERATA. 
very pale grey ; the space Iro n this latter to the transverse posterior line is brown of no very 
decided tint. 
Secondaries, base covered with greyish hairs, rest of wing black, with broad pure white 
fringes. 
Under surface, primaries white, with black marginal, median and sub-basal bands, which 
are confluent near interior margin ; fringes white, with grey at the terminations of veins. 
Secondaries white, with broad black marginal and narrower mesial bands; fringes white. 
The caterpillar which is figured by Abbot feeds on various species of oak. 
The commonest of all the black winged Catocahc, and is found in most localities from 
Xew York to Florida. 
There has been the most interminable confusion in regard to the identity of this species ; 
for years it has been confounded with, and represented in American collections the C. Viduata 
or Vidua of Guenee, a larger and entirely distinct species peculiar to the Southern States; by 
comparing the figure of the latter on plate III of this work with that of the present species on 
plate V, the many obvious points of difference will be readily perceived without inflicting on 
me the misery of pointing them out piecemeal. 
CATOOALA SUB NAT A. Quote. 
Proc. Ent. Soc. Phila. Vol, III, p. 326. ( 1864. ) 
Tran®. Am. Ent. Soc. Yol. IV, p. 0. ( 1S72.') 
( PLATE V, FIG. 3 9 ) 
Expands 3f inches. 
Head and throax, above, pale grey with dark brown lines; abdomen bright ochre yellow; 
beneath yellowish white. 
Upper surface, primaries greyish white with pale blueish and brown shades ;• transverse 
lines and other markings dark brown and very distinct; reniform medium size, sub-reniform 
large and open ; fringes brown. 
Secondaries bright yellow ; marginal and mesial bands irregular and not extending to the 
interior margin ; fringes yellow. 
Under surface yellow, with all the black bands narrow. 
Habitat. Middle and Southern States, of rare occurrence. 
This has the appearance of being an improved edition of and is closely allied to C. 
Xeogama, but can be easily distinguished from that species by its much greater size, the more 
brilliant yellow of abdomen and secondaries, and by the open sub-reniform, also the ground 
color of primaries is much lighter and the markings generally more prominent. 
The cf figure on plate IV, Vol. Ill, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil., which accompanied Mr. 
Grote’s original description of C. Subnata, resembles it in size and shape, but the markings 
mainly, and the colors precisely are those of Xeogama, it has even the closed sub-reniform 
