164 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



nuptialis Walker, micronympha Guenee, connuhialis Guenee, messalina 

 Guenee, and Mr. Strecker's Faustina, are unknown to me in nature. 

 Already twice the number of species of Catocala have been discovered in 

 America than have been described from Europe. The genus does not 

 occur south of Mexico, and has not been discovered in the West India 

 Islands. 



NOTES ON AN INTERESTING SPECIMEN OF PAMPHILA 



ZABULON, Boisd & Lec. 



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EY H. K. MORRISON, OLD CAMBRIDGE, MASS. 



The identity of Pamphila pocahonlas and quadaquina with the typical 

 species zabulon has been universally acknowledged, although there exists 

 no more positive proof than the fact that no males of these forms have 

 ever been discovered. I have in my collection an intermediate specimen 

 exhibiting plainly the characters of the original species and of the variety 

 and sub-variety, and apparently a link between them. 



The primaries above are like pocahonlas, except that the spots are a 

 little larger and of a deeper yellow. The secondaries above are exactly 

 the same as in zabulon, dark at the base, disk yellow, with a broad black 

 border. Beneath the spots on the primaries are united together, forming 

 a band almost as wide, and of as deep a color as in zabulon. Secondaries 

 beneath like quadaquina, except that the central light band is hardly as 

 narrow. 



As will be seen from the description, the primaries beneath the 

 secondaries above resemble zabulon, the primaries above pocahonias, and 

 the secondaries beneath quadaquina, making the specimen a curious com- 

 pound of all three. 



It is a female, and was taken near Springfield, Mass. 



