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fore internal margin. The terminal black band is broad, attaining the 

 marginal edge and baying but a very narrow yellow scale patch, fringed 

 with whitish hair, at apical angle. This band is entirely interrupted 

 before anal angle, within which it forms a black spot; fringes dark grey. 



Under surface dull yellow. On the anterior wings a broad sub- 

 terminal black band, tapering to internal margin. A broad terminal 

 black band, broadest at costa, leaving the apes paler. 



On the secondaries the terminal black baud is hardly interrupted,- 

 rather is it constricted, before anal angle. The median band does not 

 correspond with its analogue ou the upper surface, being somewhat 

 abbreviated and rounded. In the female the angulation of the median 

 band on the upper surface of the secondaries is not so apparent, so that 

 this character is probably sexual. 



Head, thorax and appendages, of a mixed greyish hue resembling the 

 primaries in coloration, slightly shaded with olivaceous scales on the 

 prothoracic pieces and tegulai ; abdomen dull testaceous. 



Exp. % and 9 1.80 to 2.00 inch. Length of body, 0.85 inch. 



Habitat. — New York State, lihode Island. 



Several ( % and 9 ) specimens examined. 



Larger than C. pohj<jama, Guenee ; the primaries resembling in 

 general coloration those of C. minuta, Edwds., than which it is larger 

 and has darker yellow secondaries. It appears to be of infrequent 

 occurrence. No species of Catocala known to us varies so much as C. 

 minuta, Edwds. All its varieties can be readily traced, however, after 

 a proper study of its specific characters. 



Catocala praeclara. n. s. (Plate 4, fig. 4, % .) 



Anterior wings lustrous, evenly and nearly entirely covered with pale 

 cinereous and greenish scales which have a bright reflection. Basal half- 

 line narrow, joining inferiorly a longitudinal dark brown streak somewhat 

 as in Catocala Glintonii, Grote. Transverse anterior line dark brown, 

 preceded by a faint, pale brownish, approximate, coincident line, which 

 is obsoletely continued to a large dark brown patch resting on internal 

 margin in the sub-basal space. The t. a. line is narrow, outwardly 

 oblique, improminently angulated and slightly dilated on costa. Me- 

 dian space concolorous with the rest of the wing, but with a deeper 

 greeu tinge. Reniform spot narrow, whitish, with a faint brown aunulus. 

 Obliquely placed with regard to this, is a brown costal shade. Sub- 

 reniform, unconnected with the t. p. line, spherical, concolorous with 

 the rest of the wing. Transverse posterior line narrow, dark brown, 

 broadly marked immediately on costa. dilated along the last inflection 



PROCEEDINGS EST. SOC. PHILAD. MAY, 1866. 



