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CATOCALA COCCINATA. 
band not reaching interior margin, apical spot narrow and red ; basal hair greyish, fringe 
white and grey. 
Under surface, superiors red, inferiors, inner two-thirds same color, outer third white ; 
a black discal lunule from which extends along centre of discal cell almost to base of wing, a 
black streak. 
Habitat. Pennsylvania. 
This species is of rare occurrence ; the only one I ever saw on the wing was the male 
from which I made my illustration on Plate III, and which I captured a number of years 
since in some oak woods then near Reading, but the grounds are now in that city, and the noble 
old trees are replaced by varied and execrable examples of domestic architecture. Mr. Grote’s 
types are in the Mus. of the Am. Ent. Society; several examples also in fine collection of 
Mr. Wilt, of Phila. 
CATOCALA CEROGAMA. Guenee. 
SPEC. GEN., VOL. VII, p. 96. 
( PLATE HI, FIG. 10. ? ) 
Expands inches. 
Thorax above light grey, with brown markings; abdomen brown, beneath yellowish 
white. 
Upper surface primaries, pale grey of various shades and mottled with brown, transverse 
lines distinct and dark brown, reniform moderate size, sub-reniform white ; exterior to these 
in the median space, a dark patch ; two diagonal white spaces, one interior to the reniform 
and above the sub-reniform, the other interior to the outer half of the transverse posterior 
line ; fringes brown. 
Secondaries black with a narrow yellow median band of equal width throughout ; basal 
part covered with long brown hair beneath which it is yellow ; apical spot and emarginations 
yellow ; fringes white cut with black at the terminations of the nervules. Beneath all wings 
are yellow ; secondaries with black marginal and median bands. 
Habitat. New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, &c. 
By no means a common species although at times occurring in some plenty in particular 
localities. 
