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verse lines distinct, from the base a black shaded line extends to 
the outer margin parallel with the hind margin. Another similar 
black shaded line, somewhat curved, begins at the middle of the 
costa and reaches the outer margin a little above its middle. bach 
of these is met by a perpendicular black shading, the first along the 
t. a. line and the second between the t. p. and subterminal. Mind 
wings black with the fringe white, and a trace of an inclination to a 
light band through the center. 
Catocala amatrix, Hub. 
Expands from three to three and a half inches, color of fore wings 
brownish gray, the transverse line dark brown, not heavy, usually a 
longitudinal brown band running through the middle of the wing, 
interrupted in the middle ; hind wings scarlet with two wide black 
bands and a whitish fringe, underside of fore wings have the outer 
edge grav, broadest at the apex, the rest of the space contains three 
black and three whitish bands; hind wings, the anal half scarlet, the 
rest grayish white with the bands of the upper side repeated. 
Catocala cara, Gue. 
Expanse the same as the preceding; color of fore wings and body 
rich deep maroon or reddish brown, transverse lines black, narrow, 
and accompanied with scattered inconspicuous light scales, hind 
wings crimson with two black bands, the outer broad at the 
apex but gradually diminishing till it terminates in the anal angle , 
fringe dirty white. 
Catocala ultronia, Hub. 
Expanse of wings from two to two and a half inches. Body above 
brow 7 n, gray beneath; fore wings with a stripe of pale ash color 
through the centre, beginning a little below the centre, elbowed m 
the middle, below thin, the wing is dark brown to the posterior mar¬ 
gin, crossed near the hind angle by the zigzag subtermmal line. 
Along the costa to the t. p. line then including the ante-apical and 
apical spaces, light brown; below the two spaces the same dark brown as 
in the posterior part of wing; hind wings deep red crossed by two black 
bands of which the outer is the widest, fringe white, underside o 
fore wings base black, between this and median band red, between 
median band and outer band yellowish white. Hind wings sum ar 
to upper surface. 
