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whitish color extends backwards on internal margin to the curved 

 t. p. line, which is only visible inferiorly. A black terminal line ; 

 other ornamentation indistinct. Fringes long, interlined. Hind 

 wings pale fuscous, with whitish fringes. Beneath testaceous 

 whitish, glistening; primaries shaded medially with fuscous. 

 Abdomen whitish, yellowish at tip. 



Expanse 25 mm. Texas, Bosque Co., G. W. Belfrage, No. 493, 

 June 5. 



Catocala Alabamae, n. s. 



Allied to grynea (=nuptula, Walk.), but differing by the paler 

 primaries, which want the ferruginous tone on internal margin, 

 and in certain details of ornamentation. Size a little under grynea. 

 Primaries pale, but very slightly glaucous-gray. Lines black, not 

 brown. Transverse anterior distinct and running outwardly 

 obliquely to submedian fold, thence obsolete. Its shape is less 

 rounded than in grynea, and it is not so strongly denticulate ante- 

 riorly. Reniform vague, without distinct interior annulus, and 

 with a whitish exterior clouding. Transverse posterior line as in 

 grynea, but it does not extend so far backwards towards the t. a. 

 line at internal margin. Subterminal space shaded with obscure 

 brownish, inferiorly becoming blackish. Subterminal line whitish, 

 rather distinctly dentate. Terminal lunulated line distinct. Hind 

 wings a little brighter yellow than in grynea, with the band less 

 than half the width, very uneven, much constricted anteriorly, 

 running narrowly and unevenly nearly to internal margin. Basal 

 black hairs limited. Terminal band interrupted, allowing of a 

 larger apical yellow mark than in its ally. Beneath without any 

 traces of a basal transverse clouding or band on the fore wings, 

 else with a similarity to grynea. 



Expanse 42 mm. 



Hab. Demopolis, Ala. (A. R. Grote.) 



On pages 221-223 of the second volume of the Bulletin of the 

 Buffalo Societ} r of Natural Sciences, I have given the additional 

 species described since the publication of the List of North Ameri- 

 can Noctuida?. The number of species was thereby increased to 83. 

 Since that time five additional species have now been published, one 

 of which {editha) I have not seen. The five species are C. Ne- 

 braska?, Dodge, C. Editha, Ediv., C. Belfragiana, Harvey, C. 

 Verrilliana, Grote, C. Alabama?, Grote. 



