AMERICAN LEPIDOPTERA. 93 



that opposite the cell the longest. No traces of the ordinary spots. A terminal 

 sublunulate black line. Hind wings fuscous with a faint median line, darker 

 and not whitish at base, as in H. hadistriga, than which this is a larger species. 

 Beneath dark fuscous with subterminal common lines, distinct and subdentate 

 on hind wings, within which the color is paler, and with inconspicuous discal 

 spots. Body concolorous. Expanse 40 mm. 



Hab. Kansas, Prof. Saow, No. 167. 



I have a specimen from California, which is in poor condition, and 

 which shows a superficial resemblance to this species in the disposition 

 of the median lines. It is, however, smaller, diiFerently colored, and 

 appears to me generically distinct; the ovipositor is not visible exteriorly, 

 and the abdomen is differently shaped terminally. 



Pyrrhia angulata, Grote 5 9-~"The fore tibiae without spines exclude 

 the species from Chariclea, and I am led to believe it congeneric with Pyrrhia 

 exprimcns ■which, it resembles, and which appears to be the American represen- 

 tative of the Ruropean P. umbra (Hufn). The n&w species is easily recognized 

 by the angulated distinct median shade and the pale yellow secondaries. 

 Thorax and forewings brownish-red. T. p. line very fine, thrice waved, per- 

 pendicular. Orbicular finely ringed, concolorous, with central dot. Median 

 shade extremely prominent, angulated on the median vein within the base of 

 the clouded reniform, denticulate superiorly, even inferiorly, blackish. The 

 wing is lighter tinted from the base to this median shade. T. p. line black, 

 very oblique, heavily marked, followed by a dark shading over the subtermi- 

 nal space. S. t. line uneven, interspaceally scalloped ; fringes bright tinted; 

 an extremely fine marginal line. Hind wings light yellow with blackish bor- 

 ders narrowing to apices and internal angle. Beneath yellow, the costa of 

 secondaries and the narrower terminal band rosy speckled and tinted. Two 

 black discal dots on the forewings on which the transverse band is blackish. 

 Expanse 36 mm. 



Buffalo, Mr. 0. Reinecke. Coll Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. 



CATOCAL.A, Schrank. 



I am happy to know that a more general interest in the species of 

 this beautiful genus has followed the publication of my paper on the 

 subject in these Transactions under the date of January, 1870. The 

 determinations I then made, the material upon which they were based 

 being deposited in the collection of this Society, allowed Mr. Herman 

 Strecker an opportunity to determine his material and publish some 

 generally good and useful lithographic plates of the species. Unfor- 

 tunately, the text accompanying these plates, is the work of an unsci- 

 entific person, whose most harmless idiosyncracy is a disregard of the 

 rules of literary composition. 



