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LUhophaiie vtridipalkns, n. s.. 



$ . Very pale gray green ; allied to querquera. Thorax and head 

 immaculate pale green with a central black thoracic dot, as in its ally. 

 Lines on primaries faint. Basal dash obsolete. Lines double. Median 

 shade continued, blackish. Reniform smaller than in querquera, more 

 constricted, with a less conspicuous interior ring. Subterminal line much 

 as in querquera, but without the median and submedian black marks of 

 that species. Terminal series of dots reduced. Fringes concolorous. 

 Hind wings fuscous with whitish fringes. Beneath pale with common line 

 and discal marks, and an almost imperceptible flush. Abdomen pale 

 fuscous, beneath very faintly ruddy. Hab. Mass. (Mr. Roland Thaxter). 

 Size of querquera, but differing in the fainter markings, the narrower 

 reniform, while the hind wings are less ruddy. 



Syneda Alleni, n. s. 



^ . A beautiful species allied to graphica, but distinct by the orange 

 yellow secondaries and under surface. Band on hind wings narrow, twice 

 deeply scalloped, angulated on vein 2, where it is joined to the base by 

 black scales along the vein ;' thick discal lunule. Primaries like graphica 

 but more brown ; the median shade brown and diffuse ; the t. p. line 

 notched below costa ; the t. a. line running down to internal margin, 

 slightly projected outwardly on submedian vein. Beneath bright orange 

 yellow, with deep black bands joined and forming Y-marks on both wings. 

 Larger than graphica, and a more striking species. Expanse 32 mil. 

 Orono, Maine, Mr. Anson Allen, to whom the species is respectfully 

 dedicated. 



CATOCAL^ TAKEN AT SUGAR AT CENTER, N 



BY JAMES S. BAILEY, M. D., ALBANY, N. Y. 



The following list will show the order in which Catocalae were taken 

 during July and August, 1877, at sugar, and the number taken each day 

 of each variety, in this particular locality. Center has proven itself rich 

 in Diurnals, and now especially so in Catocalae. - It is singular, after 

 working up the field thoroughly for several years, not a vestige of a Cato- 



