472 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [May, 



Catocala Titania n. sp. 



By G. M. DODGE. 



Primaries uniform, greenish gray, the green predominating ; lines all 

 indistinct, nearly obsolete. The t. a. line narrowly marked with brown, 

 runs obliquely from costa to median vein, there losing itself in the ground 

 color. Two dark dots on the costa mark the median shade, which ap- 

 pears as an undefined cloud, enclosing the reniform and reaching to the 

 t. p. line. This line seems to have two discal teeth, rather widely diverg- 

 ing, the upper about twice as long as the lower. The reniform appears 

 to be open. A toothed subterminal line can be distinguished. The 

 fringes are concolorous with the primaries and faintly maculate. Second- 

 aries bright yellow. The median band is narrow, squarely produced in- 

 wardly and then outwardly. Before reaching the inner margin it nearly 

 meets a long black basal ray, and from this point continues as a mere line 

 nearly or quite to inner margin. The marginal band is once excavated 

 internally, abbreviated, and reappears as an oval patch at anal angle. 

 The fringes are broad, yellow at base and tipped with white, and are 

 crossed by fine black lines at ends of veins. Apical patch yellow. Abdo- 

 yellow. Thorax and collar greenish gray. Below all the wings are pale 

 yellow, the marginal bands gray outwardly. The basal ray of second- 

 aries does not appear. Fringes white and distinctly spotted. Expanse 

 37 mm.; a little less than one and one half inches. 



Taken at Louisiana, Missouri, June, 1899. 



This is, I think, our smallest known species. In nearly un- 

 marked primaries remind one of jncssalinct Guen. It is, how- 

 ever, allied to prcsdara ; the secondaries of the two species 

 being similar. The delicate, mossy green fore w y ings, contrast- 

 ing with the golden yellow inferiors, make this insect a truly 

 lovely object. In presenting herewith such a namesake, I 

 believe I am doing no injustice to the " Fairy Queen." 



ON page 412 of the March number of ENT. NEWS is a note of the occur- 

 rence of Pyrameis caryce " as far east as Denver." It may be interest- 

 ing to your correspondent and some others of your readers to hear that 

 in Mr. Arthur Gibson's collection is a fine specimen of caryat, which was 

 taken at Toronto, Ont., about 1894, by Mr. C. H. Tyers. A few years 

 previous to this three larvae were sent to me from Victoria, B. C., which 

 had been found feeding upon hollyhocks, in a garden, all of which pro- 

 duced P. caryce. The species was also taken at Shushwap Lake, B. C., 

 by Mr. James M. Macoun. JAMES FLETCHER. 



