THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



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with its two extra-discal teeth about half as acuminate as in Rohinsoiiii, in 

 the latter the anterior often extends across the subterminal space; s. t. 

 line scarcely discernible, much less brown in the s. t. space than in its 

 ally, almost concolorous. The ground colour of Robiiisonii is pale gray 

 with a slight bluish sheen as seen in its side light, that of Barnesii has a 

 slight purplish sheen in a side light. 



Hind wings black, fringe white with a slight ochraceous tinge at base, 

 black at the ends of the veins. The under side as in Robinsonii, but more 

 smoky in tinge. 



Described from two examples from San Antonio, Texas; in the 

 cabinet of Dr. Wm. Barnes, Decatur, III. 



The writer would arrange the black-winged species of the Catocalas 

 of the United States as follows : 



Catocala, Schrank. 

 I. Epione, Drury. 

 Sappho, Strecker. 

 Agrippina, Strecker. 

 Subviridis, Harvey. 

 Lacrymosa, Guenee. 

 var. Ulalume, Strecker. 

 var. Paulina, Hy. Edw. 

 var. Emilia, Hy. Edw. 

 var. Evelina, French, 

 var. Zelica, French. 



6. Viduata, Guenee. 



Maesiosa, Hulst. 



7. Vidua, A.-S. 



Desperata, Guene'e. 



8. Dejecta, Strecker. 



9. Retecta, Grote. 



var. Luctuosa, Hulst. 



10. Flebilis, Grote. 



11. Robinsonii, Grote. 



var. Curvata, French. 



12. Barnesii, French, nov. sp. 



13. Obscura, Strecker. 



var. Simulatilis, Grote. 



14. Residua, Grote. 



15. Insolabilis, Guenee. 



16. Angusi, Grote. 



var. Lucetta, Hy. Edw. 

 I 7. Judith, Strecker. 

 Levettei, Grote. 

 var. Miranda, Hy. Edw. 



18. Tristis, Edw. 



19. Elda, Behrens. 



20. Relicta, Walker. 



var. Bianca, Hy. Edw. 

 var. Phrynia, Hy. Edw. 



A NEW CATOCALA FROM TEXAS. 



BY A. RADCLIFFE GR(rrE, ROEMER MUSEUM, HILDESHEIM, GERMANY. 



Catocala moderna, n. sp. 



Allied to C. viduata, Guenee, but very much smaller, and at once 

 distinguished by the pale angulated band of the under surface of hind 

 wings reflecting through on upper surface, where it appears as a faintly yel- 

 lowish mesial shade, distinctly outlined. Fore wings like C. viduata., of 

 the same pale gray, with the black oblique shading running from costa 

 at centre of median space outwardly to below apices, less marked than 



