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brown, especially apical third and the costa, a large blackish-brown 

 transverse s-pot commencing just apical to the stigma, which lengthens on 

 the next area and then splits into two, which continue separately to the 

 interior margin, thus forming two narrow, transverse blackish-bro^\m 

 bands, uniting a little above the middle of the tegmen. Veins on apical 

 half of tegmina, crimson. Wings hyaline, veins grayish-brown. Under- 

 side bright green, tarsi and tibi?s more or less reddish. 



Length of body, 4 mm.; length to apex of closed tegmina, 6}( mm. 



Habitat: Queensland, Brisbane (July, 1904, R. C L. Perkins), on 

 grasses in a mangrove swamp. 



This is the most ornate Chermid yet described. 



DR. HOLLAND'S MOTH BOOK. 



The following corrections in the genus Catocala in Dr. Holland's 

 Moth Book " should be made : 



Plate XXXI. — Fig. 4, is a well marked form of C. agrippma and not 

 van subviridis. Fig. 8, is C. luctitosa and not retecta. Fig. 11, is C. 

 Atigusi, var. lucetta, and not C.flebilis. Fig. 14, is C. obscura, var. residua, 

 and not C. obsaira. 



Plate XXXIL — Fig. 5, is C.flebilis and not C. Carolina, subsp. nov. 

 Fig. 6, is C. relicta, var. clara, and not C. relict a. Fig. 7, is C. relict a 

 and not var. bianca. 



Plate XXXIIL — Fig. i. This poor figure looks like a very pale 

 example of C. Irene and is not C. Calif ornica. Fig. 4, is C. ultronia, var. 

 adriana, and not var. celia. Fig. 6, may possibly be C. Meskei, but the 

 specjes is not recognizable from the figure. Fig. 7, is one of the many 

 varieties of C. ultronia and not var. mopsa. Fig. 8, looks like C. 

 Californica and is not var. augiista. 



Plate XXXIV. — Fig. 7, looks like C. ilia and is not var. osculata, 

 which has clear yellow hind wings. 



Plate XXXV.— Fig. 7, is C. gracilis, var. sordida, and not C. 



praeclara. Fig. i, is C. sancta and not C. amasia. Fig. 2, is C. si mills, 



var. aholah, and not C. similis. Fig. 3, is C. similis and not var. 



aholah. Fig. 5, looks like C. blandula and is not C. fratercula, var. 



jaquetietta. Fig. 13, is C. mariana and not C. Stretchii. Fig. 14, looks 



like C. Californica ^2indi is not var. cleopatra. Fig. 15, looks like C. 



Californica, var. cleopatra, and is not C. rosalinda, which is a straight 



synonym of C. Meskei. 



Wm. Beutknmuller, New York. 



