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marginal band and triangular discal spot dull black. Secondaries 

 as on upper side. Thorax above, fawn color, with pinkish scales. 

 Abdomen sordid white, with fawn-colored tint. Beneath, the 

 thorax, abdomen and legs are clear white. 



Exp. wings. 36 m. m. Length of body. 19 m. m. 



Several examples. 



Prescott, Arizona. I. Doll. 



Type. Coll. B. Neumoegen. 



Catocala Desdemona. n. sp. 



Primaries rich wood-brown tint, with paler shades over the 

 discal portion. The lines are all strong and well defined. Basal 

 half line rich velvet black, slightly notched in the centre. Anter- 

 ior line oblique, slightly dentate. It approaches the internal mar- 

 gin very close to the termination of the posterior line, which is 

 very oblique from costa to second sub-costal nervure, where it 

 forms a very long and sharp tooth. It then bends abruptly tow- 

 ards the lower end of the sub-reniform, where it is sinuato- 

 dentate. The course is thence very abrupt to the internal mar- 

 gin. The reniform is brown, surrounded by a darker shade. Sub- 

 reniform large, transversely ovate, paler, almost fawn-color, with 

 brown and black scales. Across the posterior line is a fawn- 

 colored shaded space, blending softly into the brown of the wing. 

 The sub-marginal line is rather faint, and bears three black dashes 

 from sub-costal to median nervule. Marginal lunules fawn color, 

 with an orange tint. Fringes alternately fawn and brown. Sec- 

 ondaries rich orange, a little dusky along the abdominal margin. 

 Median band widest in centre, nearly equal on its interior edge, 

 and turning in a rather sharp hook to the abdominal margin. 

 Sub-marginal band with four equal teeth about its middle on the 

 exterior edge, It is nearly of equal width throughout, but be- 

 comes constricted near the anal angle, leaving an ovate patch 

 joined to the main band by a narrow line. The inner edge of the 

 band is without dentations. Fringe orange. Under side wholly 

 rich bright orange, the primaries with median and sub-marginal 

 band of black, the secondaries with the markings of the upper side 

 repeated. All the fringes pale orange. Thorax concolorous with 

 primaries, but with rather darker transverse band in front. Ab- 

 domen dusky orange. 



Exp. wings. 62 m. m. Length of body. 25 m. m. 



Four examples. 



Prescott, Arizona. I. Doll. 



Type. Coll. B. Neumoegen. 



Probably nearer to C. consors than to any other species, but 

 differing very widely in the markings of primaries, the median 

 band 01' secondaries a;id the general color. 



