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CATOCALA ULTRONIA. 
Secondaries red, greyish near the costa; mesial baud irregular in width and extends to inner margin; a 
black discal lune joins the mesial ; fringes white and black. 
Habitat. Canada, and the United States generally east of the Mississippi. 
A common and very pretty species which, by the peculiar appearance of the primaries, can be easily 
known from all others. 
CATOCALA PIATRIX. Oroh. 
Proc. Ent, Soe., Phila., Vol. Ill, p. 88, t. Ill, (1864). 
Proc. Ent. Soc., Pliila., Vol. Ill, p. 532, (1864, i. 
Trane. Am. Ent. Soc., Vol. IV, p. 10, (1872). 
(PLATE IX, FIG. 8, <?.) 
Expands 2f to 3 inches. 
Head and thorax brown, with darker lines; abdomen yellowish brown. Beneath pale ochraceous. 
Upper surface ; pri mares brown, varied with darker basal, median and sub-apical shades ; transverse lines 
black ; reniform large and enclosed in a dark shade; sub-reniform open and pale, from this to the costa, in- 
terior to the reniform, is a paler space. 
Secondaries yellow, base clothed with brownish hair; bands rather broad ^ but narrowing towards their 
termination at the abdominal margin. 
Under surface* of all wings pale ochraceous, darker at interior margins; primaries have three transverse 
bands, the sub-basal and mesial black and distinct, the marginal pale, much suffused with yellow, especially 
towards the exterior margin ; on secondaries the mesial band is irregular in width, narrow towards the costa, 
broader on disc, and is terminated some distance from inner margin ; marginal band darkest near the anal 
angle and becomes almost obsolete as it nears the apex and costa. 
Habitat. New England, Middle and Southern States. 
A rather common species, belonging to the same group as Subnata and Neogama, in company with which 
it occurs in many localities. 
CATOCALA MULIERCULA. Guenkk. 
Noct., Vol. HI, 97, (1852). 
(PLATE IX, FIG. 9, tf.) 
Expands 2-| to 2f inches. 
Head and body dark brown above; beneath yellowish grey. 
Upper surface; primaries dark, rich reddish brown, with none of the markings very distinct; reniform 
small ; sub-reniform pale, space immediately interior to the reniform also a little paler; transverse lines black. 
Secondaries deep yellow clothed with brown hair at base and abdominal margin; marginal and mesial 
bands extend to interior margin ; fringe blackish, except near apex, where it is white. 
* The original description of the under surface, and still more, the second one by the same author, which followed it a few months 
later, would lead one to expect, instead of a very ordinary looking Catocala, some gorgeous insect rivaling the richness of Erasmia or 
Eterusia. The first description says: “ Under surface pale luteous, pale ochraceous brownish along external margins, orange coloured at 
base of posterior wings, median bands black, slightly iridescent.” Proc. Eat. Soc., Phil., Ill, 89. The second description, in regard to 
which the author says, “ I allow the present description to supersede the one given by me on page 88 of the present volume,” is as follows : 
“Under surface of both pair pale grayish ochraceous, iridescent, irrorate basally and sub-discally tinged with an orange shade; anterior 
wings crossed by three, posterior pair by two black transverse bands.” Proc. Ent. Soc., Phil., Ill, 533. In the third description of this 
species, in Trans. Am. Ent. Soc., IV, 10, all the splendour of description is transferred to the upper surface, the author doubtless con- 
sidering that he had conscientiously performed his duty towards the under side in the preceding two descriptions, allows it “presently" 
to rest in peace. 
