Il6 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [May, 



tions, both instrumental and vocal, the selections were all artisti- 

 cally rendered and much appreciated, Mr. Haimbach contributing 

 his share by acting as accompanist on the piano in a manner 

 for which he was deservedly complimented. 



The next adjournment was to the annex, which was conducted 



with the usual success. 



THEO. H. SCHMITZ, Secretary. 



Xne Entomological Section 



ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



PROCEEDINGS OF MEETINGS. 



The following papers were read and accepted by the Committee for 

 publication in ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS : 



CATOCALA JAIR New spscies from Florida. 



By Dr. HERMAN STRECKER. 



cf 9- Expands about \y% inches. Head and thorax mixed brown and 

 ashen, dark lines across and edge the collar. Abdomen ochre yellow. 

 Primaries ground color ashen with distinct, black, transverse, anterior 

 and posterior lines, neither of which are toothed or serrated, but only a 

 little irregular, the latter beyond the middle of the wing bends inwards 

 towards the costa, where it ends in a small, distinct, square black spot. 

 The basal area reddish brown, median area has a transverse shade of 

 same color in which is reniform and subreniform, the first obscure the 

 last distinct and round. The space between the black transverse poste- 

 rior line and the gray submarginal is of the same dark reddish brown, 

 subapical dash also brown. Wings edged with a black line, fringe dark 

 brown. Inferiors yellow, with a broad, black, aborted, marginal band, 

 and a spot near anal angle; under surface is yellow with black bands as 

 in C. aniica. 



Described from thirty examples which were taken the last 

 season in Florida. 



Except C. messalina and C. aniica, this is the only yellow 

 Catocala lacking the mesial band of inferiors, its place is nearest 

 to C. arnica, but its appearance is most curious, looking as though 

 the inferiors of arnica had been attached to the superiors of some 

 other species. The primaries are very much broader than in 

 arnica and the style of marking, though the color is deeper and 

 brighter, is much as in C. formula Grote (Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil, 

 vi, plate iv, fig. 5, I give this reference so as to avoid confusion 

 as formula has been knocked around since under other names). 



