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markings, though remarkably different in its coloration. Gen- 

 eral color, rich golden brown. Basal space, deep brown ; sub- 

 basal space, deep ochreous, shaded with brownish. T. a. and t. p. 

 lines almost parallel with each other, and enclosing a narrow 

 space, very rich golden brown. The spots are obsolete. Behind 

 the t. p. line the wing is again dark ochreous, shaded heavily with 

 deep brown, and the same purplish tinge. Secondaries blackish, 

 with the fringe paler. Beneath, the whole wings are golden 

 brown, flecked with darker color, and the discal spots prominently 

 marked on both wings. The costa of primaries has three small 

 golden spots. 



I ? N. W. Texas. (J. Boll.) 



Type. Coll. B. Neumoegen. 



Oribates opiparus. n. sp. 



Fawn drab. Basal region reddish, with some faint blackish 

 waved lines most apparent on costa. T. a. line very broad, nearly 

 straight, blackish brown ; beyond this, on costa, a small brownish 

 triangular spot, and a larger one at the costal termination of the 

 almost obsolete t. p. line. Reniform, blackish. Posterior margin 

 and fringes, blackish brown, less conspicuously so at the apex. 

 The insect is elsewhere wholly fawn-color. 



Exp. wings, 0.60 inch. 



I $ Texas. Type. Coll. E. L. Graef. 



Note. — I learn, through the kindness of my friends, Mr. 

 A G. Butler and Prof. C. V. Riley, that the generic name Oribates 

 has been previously employed in the Class Insecta as that of a 

 group of Crustacea. I am therefore compelled to change it, and 

 I propose to substitute for it that of Gyros. The species de- 

 scribed by me will therefore be known as 



Gyros Muirii. 

 " ver stilus. • 

 " limbatus. ' 

 " opiparus. ' 



With the exception of G. Muirii, the genus is an extremely 

 homogeneous one, but I am inclined to think that Muirii differs 

 in generic characters, and that it ought, perhaps to form the type 

 of another genus. The proper position of the group is, I think, 

 near to Etistrotia. Hbn. 



Catocala Emilia, n. van 



A remarkable form of C. Lachrymosa, in which the whole of 

 the base, the half of the internal margin, and the apex of the 

 primaries are dull black, leaving only the middle third of the 

 costal space to a point below the median nerve, and a streak 



