Habitat: Jamaica.
Upper Side. Antennæ filiform. Tongue spiral. Head, thorax, and abdomen fine brown. Anterior wings fine brown, through the middle of which runs a small longitudinal bar of white or pearl, beginning just below the shoulders, and losing itself just below the tips. Above this bar the wings are watered with various marks of dark and light brown. Behind it they are of a darker shade, except a spot near the middle of a yellowish brown. Posterior wings dark brown, with two white marks on the edges, about a third of an inch long; beginning on the anterior edge, and crossing the corner to the external edge.
Under Side. Breast, legs, abdomen, and wings greyish brown or russet, with some faint, dark indented lines running across all the wings in different parts. The white marks on the edges of the posterior wings are very visible on this side. The wings are entire.
CATOCALA AFFINIS.
Plate [XXIII]. fig. 6.
Order: Lepidoptera. Section: Nocturna. Family: Noctuidæ.
Genus. Catocala, Schr. Blephara, Hübn. Phalæna (Noctua), Linn.
Catocala Affinis. Alis anticis fuscis maculis ordinariis discoidalibus strigisque dentatis obscurioribus; posticis fulvis fasciâ centrali margineque postico latè nigris. (Expans. Alar. 2 unc.)
Syn. Phalæna (Noctua) Paranympha, Drury, App. vol. 2. (excl. syn. Linnæan.)
Habitat: New York; taken on the 27th day of July.