ON CATOCALA VERRILLIANA, WITH NOTES ON CATOCALA RELICTA

• Published in: The Canadian Entomologist
• Main Author: Grote, A. R.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1875
• Subjects: Insect Science; Molecular Biology; Physiology; Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics; Structural Biology; fratercula
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.4039/ent7185-10; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0008347X00127166

The smallest N. Am. red-winged species known. It has a resemblance to polygama and fratercula in the ornamentation of the primaries. Fore wings gray, shaded with blackish; lines black. A diffuse basal black shade. T. a. line diffusely shaded with black. Reniform small, yellowish, more or less distinctly double ringed. Sub-reniform small, yellowish, disconnected with the t. p. line. T. p. line shaped much as in Polygama . Hind wings bright red.