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broad and thick, about 220 long, 330 broad ; nectaries about 350 long, 

 strongly swollen in the middle. Body entirely shining dark olive-brown, 

 without markings ; legs whitish, suffused with gray, apical portion of 

 femora darkened ; antennas pale ; wings hyaline, including veins ; beak 

 short, reaching only about half-way to middle coxse ; frontal tubercles very 

 distinct ; third and fourth antennal joints with very numerous sensoria, 

 over 30 visible in one view on third, 17 in a row on under side, where 

 they are most numerous. 



Pupa with abdomen purplish; immature forms show very minute 

 tubercles on abdomen. 



Larva dark green ; abdomen more or less tuberculate. 



Hab. — -Pecos, N. M., June 7, 1903 (Dr. M. Grabham). On Lonicera 

 involucrata, curling the leaves, the affected parts of which become deep 

 crimson above, the veins white. The first stage of change consists of 

 greenish-yellow spots, which give vvay to crimson. The effect on the 

 plant is very like that of Rhopalosiphum ribis on Ribes. 



A NEW NORTH AMERICAN CATOCALA. 



Professor N. J. Kusnezov, of St. Petersburg, Russia, has recently 

 described a new Catocala from Texas, with four figures. A reprint of the 

 description of the species may be of interest to American collectors, hence 

 I reproduce it below : 



" Catocala orba, Kusnezov. — Expanse of male 48 mm ; size of 

 C. Judit/u Strecker. 



" Antennae of male ciliate, gray, scaled above, with slight tuftings of 

 hair below. (Palpi broken off.) Front densely covered with whitish-gray 

 hairs. Patagia and front parts of tegulse and mesothorax dark brown ; 

 vertex gray ; the rest of tegulte, nota, and crest on metathorax, whitish- 

 gray. Upper part, sides and crests of the abdominal somites dark gray ; 

 anal tuft long, dark gray, lighter below. Thorax on the under side and 

 femora thickly clothed with long, dirty white hairs and scales. (Fore 

 tibise broken off.) Middle and hind tibije and tarsi gray, spotted and 

 ringed with black. First pair of spurs of hind tibiae very long and acute. 



" Fore wings on the upper side pale gray (resembling somewhat the 

 colour of fresh specimens of C. concuinbens, Walker), greatly suffused on 

 costa and at base of wings with white scales ; darker in terminal area. 

 Transverse lines visible, but very indistinct. Basal line fine, angulated ; 



