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13. Panorpa venosa Westw. 



This species may also be two-brooded. Raleigh (E-C), 

 middle of September to middle of October, Brimley. Southern 

 Pines (S-E-C), June, Manee. 



14. Panorpa virginica Banks. 



Until I sent Mr. Banks a series of this species from our 

 western (mountain) section, he had seen it only from the 

 vicinity of Washington, D. C. My records include four rather 

 widely different mountain localities. The records indicate the 

 possibility of two broods. Hendersonville (W), June, Sher- 

 man. Highlands (S-W), early in September, Woglum and 

 Sherman. Boone (N-W), August, Sherman. Blowing Rock 

 (N-W), August, Sherman. 



15. Panorpodes carolinensis Banks. 



Black Mountains (W), May 2oth, Beutenmiiller. 



Description of a New Catocala. 



BY WILLIAM BEUTENMULLER. 



Gatocala mamtoba sp. nov. 



Male and Female. Head and thorax dull olive or ashen gray, with an 

 olivaceous tint. Collar edged with brown posteriorly. Fore wings rather 

 broad, olive gray or purplish brown, with an olivaceous tint. Trans- 

 verse anterior line black, distinct, with a rather strong outward curve 

 from the costa to a little above the inner margin, and preceded by a 

 slight brown shade. Basal dash black, scarcely extending to the middle 

 of the basal area, sometimes absent. Basal line black, dentate, and 

 extending to the basal dash. Transverse posterior line black, narrow 

 to the lower inflection, where it is broad. Tooth opposite the cell rather 

 long, followed by a very short tooth; thejice the line is almost even and 

 somewhat concave in its course to the lower inflection. Subterminal 

 line dentate, somewhat paler than the ground color, distinct, but not 

 very contrasting. Space between the posterior and subterminal lines 

 filled with dull reddish brown from a little below the costa to the inner 

 margin. Subapical shade very vague or absent. Reniform brown, disk 

 and outline pale. Subreniform rounded, resting on the reniforni; brown 

 and partly or wholly black-ringed. On the costa near the middle is a 

 black mark. Hind wings yellow. Median band black, somewhat angu- 

 late, irregular, and meeting a black basal shade at the inner margin. 

 Marginal band black and more or less broken before the anal angle, 



