one interrupted with a series of small white spots. The thorax is olive and the abdomen yellow. On the under side the anterior wings are yellowish, the tips brown, and there is a black streak running from the lower corner to the posterior edge; the under side of the posterior wings nearly like the upper.
Cramer states that his specimens are both from the coast of Coromandel and Surinam (?). Drury obtained it from Bengal.
CATOCALA NEOGAMA.
PLATE XXVI. Fig. 1.
The characteristic features of this genus have been described at length, in giving the history of certain of the species occurring in Britain.[1] The foreign species are numerous, but none of them exceed in size or beauty our own rare C. Fraxini. They are natives of temperate climates. The caterpillars are called half-loopers, that is, they curve upwards a
- ↑ Nat. Lib. Brit. Moths, p. 242.
