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before the anal angle. A narrow terminal orange-yellow space, broa - 

 below costal angle, beyond, encroached upon by the black terminal 

 band ; fringes dark. Under surface, dark yellow. Terminally, both 

 wings are covered with pale brown scales. On anterior win^s. median 

 and basal black shade bands. On posterior wines the terminal brown 

 band becomes narrow and blackish toward anal an<rle. spar-elv dilated 

 along costa. A median, black, irregular, shade band. Head, thorax 

 and appendages, pale brown mixed with ashen scales. Abdomen dull 

 te-taeeous. Under thoracic surface and legs very pale brownish. 



Exp. % and $ ,2.00 to 2.20 inches. Length of body. 1.10 inch. 



Habitat. — Atlantic District. Common. Coll. Ent. Sec Philad. 



Numerous coincident specimens from Massachusetts. Rhode Island. 

 Xew York and Pennsylvania examined. 



Very distinct from any hitherto described species, and aberrant in 

 ite -tyle of ornamentation. It appears to be allied to the Japanese 

 C. obliterata, Men6tri< - 



Catocala ponderosa. n. s. (Plate 4. fig. 2. $ .) 



Pale greyish cream-color, much shaded with deep brown ; transverse 

 lines black. Basal half-line, black ; extreme base blackish brown su- 

 periorly, inferiorily clothed with long dust-colored hair. Sub-basal 

 space blackish-brown, interiorly mixed with greyish scales. Transverse 

 anterior line black, broadly dilated on costa. with a slight sub-costal 

 tooth, nearly even, improminently and roundedly exerted on internal 

 margin. Median space entirely greyish cream-color, with sparsely 

 scattered brown scales. Reniform spot moderate, obliterate, eoneolor- 

 ous with the pale median space, surrounded with a faint brown annulus. 

 Transverse posterior line black, distinct and neatly defined, slightly 

 dilated before internal margin and verv sliehtlv so immediatelv on the 

 costa : very irregular : two prominent teeth, the lower of which about a 

 third shorter than the upper. Sub-renifonn spot entirely enclosed and 

 connected with the t. p. line, resembling -rote.in thi; . - 



Centrally the subreniform spot is concolorous with the pale median space. 

 The terminal part of the wing, beyond the t.p. line, is brown, centrally 

 shaded and sprinkled with pale scales. Subtermiual line grey, dentate. 

 Nervulea clothed with black scales more or less sprinkled with grey. 

 Along terminal margin the wing shows a purplish lustre. A terminal 

 series of dtep brown interspaced dots : fringes olivaceous brown. 



Posterior wings dark orange-yellow, much like those ( : 

 Gueuee. in the disposition of the black bands, but the median band is 

 not so constricted and is slightly broader. Base of the wine and 



