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the infected branches before serious injury was done, or by syringing the 

 trees with a solution of whale oil soap, — or even common soft soap would 

 do — just as the young lice are leaving the scales. It would be still better 

 to have the solution hot. Whitman's Fountain Pump is admirable for 

 making such applications. 



Fig. i is slightly magnified ; the others are largely magnified. The 

 drawings were made from the objects by W. S. Holdsworth, a senior of 

 the Michigan Agricultural College. 



INSCRIPTION OF TWO NFW SPFCIFS OF CATOCALA. 



BY A. R. GROTE, BUFFALO, N. V. 



Catocala Beaniana, n. s. 



Intermediate between Briseis and Meskei. Fore wings paler than 

 Briseis, with the t. p. line more dentate, and the brown subterminal shade 

 paler ; sub-reniform open. Hind wings red like Meskei, the middle black 

 band broader, interrupted, transverse and not like Briseis, where it is still 

 broader, continued and rounded, not so straight across the wing. Beneath 

 much like Briseis, with the black bands broader and the white interspaces 

 narrower than in Meskei. The subterminal white dentate shade on the 

 primaries above more dentate than in Briseis. This species is similarly 

 sized with Briseis, and is best described comparatively with that species 

 and Meskei. Sent me by Mi". Thomas E. Bean, under the number 574, 

 from Illinois. 



Catocala Westeottii, n. s. 



£ °. . Allied to anna, but smaller, with pale yellow hind wings and 

 continuous bands, the median band angulated inferiorly and not so con- 

 stricted superiorly as in that species. The primaries closely resemble 

 anna in markings ; the black outer shade of the t. a. line is quite similar 

 and approaches anna and Westeottii to the group of nuptialis, abbreviatella 

 and Whitney i. Beneath the pale yellow outer interspace is narrower in 

 Westeottii, and there is no basal black ray on secondaries, which show the 



