GENUS. BUPALUS, _Leach_. Fidonia, p. _Treitschke_. Phalæna (Geometra),
_Drury_.
BUPALUS CATENARIUS. Fronte fulvâ; alis albis lunulâ mediâ; anticis
strigis duabus undatis (scil. ante et pone medium), posticis strigâ
unicâ, nigris. (Expans. Alar. 1 unc. 9 lin.)
SYN. Phalæna (Geometra) catenaria, _Drury, App. v._ 2. _Fabr. Ent. Syst._
III. 2. _p._ 140. _No._ 41. _Gmel. Linn. S. N._ 2461. 660.
HABITAT: New York (_Drury_). "In Indiis" (_Fabr._).
_Upper Side._ The head is orange-coloured; the eyes black; the antennæ
are broad, and pectinated; the thorax white, with three spots of orange
colour, one at each shoulder, the other at the base of the abdomen, where
are two small black specks. The abdomen is white, and on each ring is a
small black speck. The wings are white; and, on each anterior one, are
two denticulated lines, running cross the wing, from the anterior to the
interior edge, in a circular manner; the one near the base, the other
{17}near the external edge, which last forms, on each nerve, a small
black speck like an arrow head. Between the two lines is a black spot
near the anterior edge. The posterior wings have a similar line running
cross them, from the anterior to the interior edges, in a circular
manner, and, meeting a little above the extremity of the abdomen, with a
black spot in each near the middle.
_Under Side._ Is similar to the upper, only the black spots are more
conspicuous.