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near the subcostal vein to the s. t. brown shade ; the s. t. brown shade a 

 little pale below the teeth of the t. p. line ; fringe gray, with a very little 

 pale at the base. 



Hind wings rich rosy crimson, about the colour of violenta and 

 Verilliana, smoky at the base ; median band of medium width, wavy, 

 almost broken by a sharp excavation on submedian vein, a few red scales 

 between the line and the inner margin, where it ends a point of a triangle, 

 the band is broad on the costa ; terminal band broad, inner edge slightly 

 wavy, not excavate before anal angle ; apex very narrow, red ; a few red 

 dots on edge of wing between the veins outside the terminal band, just 

 before anal angle a narrow red patch with the fringe at this point also red; 

 elsewhere, fringe at apex white faintly rose tinted ; the rest of fringe black, 

 with a little rosy white where the red dots are. 



Under side with the black bands broad, the median of hind wings not 

 reaching internal margin except by a faint shade ; the light bands of fore 

 wings rosy, with white on the costa of the outer one ; posterior two-thirds 

 of hind wings rosy red, the anterior part of outer band white with a rosy 

 tint, the anterior part of base gray. Body as in allied species. 



Described from one female from Southern Arizona, in the collection 

 of O. C. Poling, Quincy, 111. It stands between aholibah, Strecker, and 

 violenta, Hy. Edw. The hind wings are more like violenta, of a brighter 

 red than aholibah. 



The shade of fore wings is much like that of aholibah, but brighter, 

 and the s. t. brown shade much lighter. It is in general a much brighter 

 insect than aholibah. It is much larger than violenta, and differs from 

 aholibah, violenta and Verilliana in having a wide open subreniform. 



Catocala fratercula, var. Ouwah., n. var. 



This form, taken at Quincy, 111 , is between var. gisela and var. 

 Jacquenetta. 



The general tint is brownish gray, the brown of the vandyke type 

 instead of olivaceous ; pale gray in the cell before the reniform ; a deep 

 brown longitudinal shade runs from the base to the apex, that is broken 

 only by the subreniform being a little paler, the whitish shade preceding 

 the s. t. line broken by this shade. It differs fwmgisela'm the base along 

 the posterior margin and the terminal margin not being pale, and in the 

 central shade being more distinct. The hind wings resemble gisela, but 

 the anterior part of the median band is wider than in gisela. 



