'22 Grote and Robinson's Lcpidopterological 



blackish scales along internal margin. Under surface of both pair 

 resembling that of the preceding species; on the secondaries the discal 

 dot is obsolete. 



Head, thorax and appendages above, colored like the basal space of 

 primaries, being of a dull pale reddish bue. Palpi, impromineut. tbird 

 joint small, thus differing from tbe preceding species in which tbe palpi 

 are prominent, held free from the head with an elongated apical joint. 

 Abdomen dull brownish-testaceous ; beneath, with thoracic region, 

 whitish-testaceous. Antenna?, filiform. 



Exp. 9 1.50 inch. Length of body 0.70 inch. 



Habitat.— Texas, (E. T. Cresson.) Coll. Ent. Soc. Phil. 



CATOCALA, Ochs. 

 Catocala badia. n. =. (Plate 4. fig. 1. % .) 



Bright brown, mixed with ashen scales. Anterior wings brown. 

 Basal half line, brown. Basal space and basal half of sub-basal space, 

 pale brown mixed with ashen scales. A broad, brown, transverse shade 

 precedes the transverse anterior line, which latter is brown, slightly 

 undulate and oblique, most prominently produced on the interspace 

 between the median and internal nervures. 3iediau space narrow, pale 

 brown, sprinkled with ashen scales. Reniform spot brown, ill defined, 

 sub-obsolete, obscured and nearly lost in the ground color of the wing; 

 sub-reniform. wanting. Transverse posterior line faint, brown, obscured 

 bv a verv broad, straight, brown, transverse shade, which covers the 

 wing at this place and is sharply defined externally. The t. p. line may 

 be detected at within the middle of this shade which encroaches on 

 the median space superiorly ; it will then be seen to be without promi- 

 nent teeth, somewhat squarely and angularly produced superiorly, 

 provided with a faint minute tooth on the interspace above the first 

 median nervule. From the point of anastomosis of the second and 

 third median nervules to the internal margin, the t. p. line is straight, 

 faint and but slightly undulate on the interspaces. The scales border- 

 ing the broad brown posterior shade are very pale and sharply con- 

 trasted, deepening in color towards external margin. Faint traces of a 

 brown subterminal line ; the nervules clothed with ashen scales. A 

 terminal series of small interspaceal brown spots ; fringes dark. 



Posterior win_ r s bright orausre-vellow; base and internal margin, 

 clothed with long dust-colored hair. A median black band, somewhat 

 irregular, nowhere prominently constricted, hardly attaining the inter- 

 nal margin. A broader terminal black band, quite irregularly mar- 

 gined iuwardly. nowhere prominently constricted and expiring just 



