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Catocala pura n. sp. 

 Expands three inches. Head gray; palpi gray, black on tips; thorax 

 gray, collar and teguke edged with indistinct shading; body gray, with a 

 brownish tinge; anal tuft lighter. Fore wings with ground color very light, 

 giving much the same general appearance as Semirelicta; surface squamose; 

 markings generally indistinct. Base a little more darkly marked, making 

 an indistinct basal dash ; subreniform closed ; t. p. line with the two main 

 dentations spreading and not largely produced, the lower especially, and with 

 the dentations beneath these somewhat exaggerated, giving an irregularly- 

 serrated appearance ; submarginal line quite distinct, and against the white 

 surface color showing very clearly its serrations ; fringe gray. Hind wings 

 red as in Briseis, median baud as in Californica, but narrower, and prolonged 

 hardly more than two-thirds across the wing; fringe pure white. There is 

 no shading of red on the outer edge or the apex of the wing. Underneath 

 the wings are much as in Californica, but with the median band narrowed, 

 and ending posteriorly in a round bulb. 



DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SPECIES OF CHRYSOPHANUS. 



BY W. H. ifiDWARDS, COALBURGH, WEST VA. 



C. Snowi. 



Male: Expands 1.2 inch. 



Upper side copper-red, very nearly the hue of C. Americana; and as in 

 that species, having the hind margins of all wings broadly fuscous; costa of 

 primaries fuscous, primaries have a transverse discal of six or seven small 

 black spots or points, four of which are in an oblique straight line from costa 

 to median; the others a little within this line in the median interspaces; 

 at the end of cell a long black spot, and a second, minute, at one-third the 

 distance from arc to base. 



Secondaries have a slightly sinuous discal row of similar spots, and be- 

 tween this and the margin on posterior half of the wing are indistinct fuscous 

 spots. 



Under side of primaries reddish-ochraceous on disk, gray over costal and 

 hind margins and at base; a submarginal row of small fuscous spots; the 

 discal row repeated, a little enlarged ; the spots in cell repeated, the one on 

 arc made up of two confluent round spots. 



Secondaries gray with a reddish tint, the base and inner margin dusted 

 black, a submarginal row of small black spots, the one next to anal angle 

 largest, and nearly covered with orange, the next two a little dusted orange ; 

 behind each of these three is a black point; the discal spots repeated; in 

 cell three spots, and two on costal margin. 



