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times present behind the two middle dots of the row ; the dots are 

 occasionally connected by a narrow transverse fuscous line. 



In a few specimens the third and fourth joints of the mixillary palpi 

 are tinged with rufo-piceous, the second joint of the labial palpi is piceous 

 apically, and the third entirely so. 



The outer fuscous stripes of pronotum are in some specimens con- 

 tinuous to anterior margin, in others they end at the transverse furrow 

 and are 7iot indicated by spots in front of this furrow. 



The inverted U-shaped markings on lateral lobes of mesonotum 

 sometimes have their ends joined so as to form circles. 



The tarsal joints are not always rufo-piceous at their apices. 



CATOCALA ILLECTA, Walk. 



In March last, Mr. E. N. Laing, of Essex, Ont., one of our young 

 collectors, whilst on a visit to London availed himself of the opportunity 

 to obtain the names of his captures. Whilst I was looking over his 

 collection, a Catocala, with something quite unusual in its appearance to 

 me, arrested my attention ; and on comparing it with those in the 

 Society's possession I found it was not there represented. Upon turning 

 up Mr. Strecker's " Lep. Rhop. Et. Het." I found it therein vividly 

 portrayed on Plate XL, fig. 9, and named by him Catocala magdale?ia. 

 Not finding that name in Smith's list of 1891, I had to turn up the 

 Synonymy, and found that it was known as C. Illecta of Walker. 



It is a particularly attractive moth. Mr. Grote, in Trans. Am. Ent. 

 Soc, Vol. IV., p. 13, says of it: "A broad-winged, moderately stout species, 

 recalling C. concumbens in appearance and colour of primaries." This 

 resemblance to concumbens is very striking, and has attracted the atten- 

 tion of nearly all of the describers. Walker gives the colour of the 

 secondaries as "bright luteous, abdomen iuteous"; Hulst., "bright 

 yellow " ; and Grote as " bright golden-yellow," which last seems to me 

 to express it exactly. The yellow upper surface of the abdomen, corre- 

 sponding to the colour of the hind wings, instead of the gray of the front 

 ones, is very noticeable. Walker gives the habitat as " United States." 

 Mr. Strecker's figure was drawn from an example taken at Indianapolis 

 in 1874, but he afterwards received specimens from Texas. Dr. Hulst, 

 writing in 1885, gives 111. Neb. to Texas as its habitat; and Dr. Smith, as 

 late as 1893, gives the same. So this discovery of C. Illecta is of some 

 importance as considerably extending its range. Mr. Laing took his 

 specimen of it in the season of 1896, at electric light. 



J. Alston Moffat. 



Mailed May 6th, 1898. 



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