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Box: 4 Cork: 19

Noctuidae  Catocala neogama (J.E. Smith) [det. J.D. Weintraub]

From:  USA  Pennsylvania  Original Locality Data: "Taken on board Ship Pacific on her return from Canton China 150 miles off the coast of the US July 1824 by W.W. Wood"
Peale's Identification: Catocala
Measurements: [FWL not measurable due to position of wings; alt. Measurement = frons of head to end of abdomen (bo Comments: [July, 1824 - one of the oldest dated specimens in the Peale Coll'n.]

Specimen 19 in Peale Box 4,
Box 4 data: "Pennsylvania Nocturnal; 4; 13. Catocala & c." Collected by T.R. Peale in the neighborhood of Philadelphia 1833 to 1836. Mounted: 1833-1836

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