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One specimen. Connecticut, June 6th, 1873. 



Taken from a dead stick of Bdula nigra. My attention was drawn to 

 the spot by finding a Rhyssa humida (Say) with its ovipositor firmly driven 

 into the wood. Upon cutting into the stick, this specimen, together with 

 a pupa of the male and several horn-tailed larvae, were found. The 

 antennas of the pupa are bent down upon the sides of the face and up 

 along the back of the head. One of the larvae changed to pupa (female, 

 length 0.32 in.) on the 21st of July. The male agrees well with Norton's 

 description as given in the Trans. Am. Ent. Soc, and is very unlike the 

 female. 



Rhyssa humida (Say, Bost. Jour., ii., p. 224, female. Walsh, Tr. St. 

 Louis Acad. Sci., hi., p. 108, female). 



The specimen differs from Say's description only in minute characters 

 of sculpture and coloration which Say omitted, but which appear in 

 Walsh's more detailed account. From Walsh's description it differs in 

 having no white spot on the metathorax and no " faint, brown cloud in 

 the inner angle of the radial area." The length of body is slightly less 

 than half an inch. 



A NEW CATOCALA FROM FLORIDA. 



BY A. R. GROTE, A. M., 



Director of the Museum, Buffalo Society Natural Sciences. 



Catocala siuuosa, n. s. 



This species is allied to C. coccinata, but very distinct from that and 

 all other described species. Fore wings whitish gray, paler, but lines 

 much as in coccinata. The t. p. line has the double sub-equal teeth and 

 the long inward and thicker indentation above internal vein. Hind wings 

 crimson. The median band reduced to a sinuate, unusually narrow and 

 abbreviate fascia which looks like an elongate discal mark rather than the 

 usual band. Hind margin with the black band continuous, not quite 

 attaining anal angle. Beneath largely shaded with bright red on both 

 wings, the black fascia reduced to unusually narrow stripes ; on the hind 

 Wings discontinued. Abdomen gray. Size of coccinata. Very different 

 in character from the Texan var. cine of coccinata, which seems to inter- 

 grade with the type form. Two specimens Florida, Mr. Albert Koebele. 



