CATOCALA SUBNATA. 
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which is one of Grotes’ great points of distinction between the two species, as he says in his 
description* of Subnata the “ Sub-reniform large, open, formed by a deep sinus of the t. p. 
line, f” 
The type is in the Museum of the American Ent. Society. 
CATOCALA NEOGAMA. Abbot & Smith. 
Lepid. Georgia, Vol. II, p. 175, PI. 88. 
Guenee, Spec. Gen., Vol. VII, p. 96. 
Duncan’s Naturalists’ Library, Vol. VII, p. 202, PI. 26, fig. 1. 
(PLATE V, FIG. 4 5 9 .) 
Expands 3 inches. 
Thorax above, grey ; abdomen brownish yellow ; beneath pale yellow. 
Upper surface, primaries grey, with brown shades, markings dark brown, varying in dis- 
tinctness in different examples; reniform, which is rather small and inconspicuous, is sur- 
rounded by a brown double line ; sub-reniform small and not connected with the transverse 
posterior line. 
Secondaries dark yellow, with irregular marginal and median bauds which do not extend 
to the abdominal margin ; apical spot and fringes yellow. 
Under surface yellow, the black bands narrow and irregular. 
The larva is figured by Abbot, who states that it feeds on the black American Walnut 
(Juglans Nigra); it is brown in color, with dark spots on the sides and two dark lines near 
the back, and “ resembles the. color of the bark so much as not to be discern able from it. ” 
One of our commonest species found throughout the Atlantic States. 
CATOCALA CLINTONII. Gbote. 
Proc. Am. Ent. Soc. Phil. Vol. Ill, p. 89, PI. Ill, Fig. 4, 9 (1864.) 
( PLATE V. FIG. 6. 9 ) 
Expands 2 inches. 
Thorax whiteish grey ; abdomen yellow. 
Upper surface, primaries very pale grey, tinged a trifle in the centre and on the exterior 
and interior margins with blueish ; basal and other transverse lines fine but tolerably distinct, 
“Trans. Am. Ent, Soc. Vol. IV, p. 10. 
fTransrerse posterior line. 
