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MOTHS AND BUTTERFLIES. 
These moths inhabit oak woods, generally in company with other 
kinds, and are most often to be found in the daytime hugging closely 
to the trunks of the trees where their gray wings marbled with dark 
brown and black render them difficult to see. When once alarmed 
they readily take to flight and are strong and rapid on the wing. 
This species may be taken by sugaring but rarely comes to a light. 
The larva lives on oak. 
oiacK. rnorax gray ana biach, body iignt brownish-bull. Lower 
wings orange-red with one narrow and one broad black band, the 
outer margin yellowisli-gray. The insect expands three inches and a 
half in a fine specimen. This is not a rare insect, and I have taken 
it in Massachusetts, Southern Ohio and Illinois, and have specimens 
from Ontario, Canada. 
Catocala subnata. Upper wings gray and light brown. Thorax 
light gray, body yellowish-brown. Lower wings ochreous-yellow 
