CATOCALA MULIERCULA. 
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Under surface yellow, darkest at and near inner margin of secondaries; three black bands on primaries,, 
the sub-basal and median connected near the inner margin ; the two black bands of secondaries extend from 
costa to abdominal margin. 
Habitat. Middle, Western and Southern United States. 
Is an exceedingly rare species with us, but occurs more frequently in Georgia and Florida, from which 
latter states I have occasionally received it. 
CATOCALA CONSORS. Abbot & Smith. 
PhaUcna Consors, Lepid. Georgia, Vol. II, p. 177, t, 89, (1797 ). 
Catoccda Consors, Guenee, Xoci. Ill, 99, (1852). 
(PLATE IX, FIG. 10, c?.) 
Expands 2J to 2| inches. 
Head and thorax, above, smoky grey ; abdomen yellowish brown, beneath yellowish grey. 
Upper surface ; primaries dark smoky grey ; transverse lines black, dull, and not deeply dentate ; reni- 
form brownish ; sub-reniform small. 
Secondaries ; deep yellow, with brown hair at base and abdominal margin ; marginal band with three deep 
indentations interiorly, mesial band very irregular; the shape of these bands cause the wing to have a cheq- 
uered appearance, one point of the marginal band almost touching another of the mesial, on the disc ; fringes 
black and yellow. 
Under surface dusky yellow; three broad black bands on primaries, mesial and marginal bands of sec- 
ondaries much as above. 
The larva, according to Abbot, is found on the Bastard Indigo (Amorpha Frutieosa L.). 
Habitat. From Maryland to the Gulf. 
An exceedingly rare species, or at least difficult to obtain, as it is represented in but few American collec- 
tions; the example from which fig. 10 was drawn is in the collection of Mr. ( 'has. Blake, of Philadelphia, 
well known by his extensive labours on the N. Am. Mutillidse,* and to whose uniform goodness I am indebted 
for innumerable favours, far more than, with my best will, T ever shall be able to repay. 
CATOCALA NEBULOSA. Edwards. 
Proc. Ent. Soc., Phila., Vol. II, p. 510, (1864 i. 
Catoccda Ponderosa , Grote <t llobinson, I’roc. Enl. Soc.. Phila., \ ol. VI. p. 28, t. 4, (1866). Grots, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc., Vol. I\ , 
p. 11, (1872). 
(PLATE IX, FIG. 11, 9.) 
Expands 3 to 3 1 inches. 
Head and body brown above, and yellow beneath. 
Upper surface ; primaries, ground color greyish yellow, heavily clouded with maroon or dark reddish 
brown, which has on fresh examples a perceptible bluish sheen, especially on that portion from the transverse 
anterior line to the base, which is so dark as to appear almost black ; the transverse anterior line widens un- 
equally from its middle upwards to the costa where it is very broad ; transverse posterior line deeply sinuated ; 
reniform moderately large and doubly annulated; sub-reniform connected with the transverse posterior line. 
Secondaries rich yellow; marginal band broad, space between this and the median band narrow; the 
portion of the wing from the median band to the base almost entirely covered with heavy brownish hair, 
giving the wing much the same appearance as in Cerogama, Guen. ; a yellow apical spot; fringe yellow. 
Under surface yellow; primaries with three purplish black bands, the sub-marginal, which is narrowest, 
and the median, extend from costa to interior margin, the sub-basal reaches only to the sub-median nervure; 
*In the Trans. Am. Ent. Soc., Vol. Ill, (1871). 
