94 AUG. R. GROTE. 



^Vhilc these plates have been of great service in disseminating in- 

 formation on the genus, and while, from the circumstances detailed 

 above, I can only endorse the accuracy of the determinations, there 

 are one or two of the figures to which a proper exception should be 

 made. That of C. Faustina has led to the reierence of the .species 

 to the European C. Nupta by Mr. Moschler. I do not think the sup- 

 position is correct, and I have described the species comparatively in 

 the proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History. The figure 

 of C. unijuga is also not good and looks as if it had been made from 

 a worn specimen, while I see no reason to doubt the determination. 

 An unacquaintance with specific characters in the genus, has allowed 

 Mr. Strecker to confound C. Meskei with C. unijvgn. The more 

 pinkish hind wings with their greatly naiTOwer and discontinued 

 median band, the more even testaceous gray primaries of C. Meshi 

 contrast specifically with the characters of the hind wings and the pul- 

 verulent, peppered, black and white, forewings of C. nniguga ; while 

 the median lines are dngle and not geminate in the slighter C. Meskei 

 from Wisconsin and New York. I pass over as valueless the imputed 

 identity of C. Arizonx with any of the described Californian species, 

 unfortunate as illustrating an unscientific animus, especially as it seems 

 likely that it has been followed by a re-description of the species as C 

 Aspasia Strecker. From specimens in the ^luseum of Comparative 

 Zoology of C. iUecta from Texas, I can, with certainty, refer the C. 

 Magdalenn of Mr. Strecker to this species, since Mr. Strecker himself 

 considered these specimens to belong to his supposed new species and 

 his meagre description bears out the fact. 



Through the kindness of several correspondentvS I have been supplied 

 with much fresh material in the genus, so that I am now engaged upon 

 a second paper on our species of Catocala. 



I content myself here with describing three species from the Middle 

 States and Canada, and two from Texas, all of which appear to me suf- 

 ficiently easy of identification without the assistance of figures. 



C'atooala siniiila4ilis, Gro^e.— 9.— This species is intimately related 

 •with C. o6«c(t7Yt,soine\vIial as C. residua with C. insolabilin. C. residua has black- 

 ish fringes, the general color of the primaries is dusky ashen, without the linear 

 deepening in color above internal margin of C.insohibiHs,-wh\\(i the whitish gray 

 subterminal shade contrasts with the dusky tone of the wing. This species has 

 also a black oblique subapical shade beyond the subterminal line, more or less 

 distinctly followingthe teeth of the line and apparent sometimes within the line, 

 following the two prominent teeth of the t. p. line. This black shading is wanting 



