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Melit^a CHALCEDON. Bdv. Emerged from chrysalis in 

 Los Angeles, March i6. Common around San Francisco in May; 

 Yosemite, June, 



MeliT/EA Editha. Bdv. Grafton's, near San Bernardino, 

 March 12. (Determined by Dr. H. Behr). 



MELlT.'iiA PALLA. Bdv. Marin and Sonoma Cos., April and 

 May; Yosemite, June. 



MELIT.EA NUBIGENA. Behr. Between Glacier Point and 

 Snow's, Yosemite Valley. Altitude about 7000 feet. Very com- 

 mon on July 10. 



Phyciodes mylitta. Edtv. San Rafael, July 17. 



Phyciodes PKATENSIS. Behr. Marin Co., April. Common. 



The species captured before July. 15 were determined by 

 Mr. Henry Edwards, those taken after that date, by Mr. Sam'l 

 H. Scudder. One exception is noted. 



A NEW VARIETY OF CATOCALA 



By G. R. Pilate, Dayton, Ohio. 



Catocala Clintonii. — Grote. Var. Ilelene. n. var. 



In order that my description may be better understood, I 

 will make it in comparison with Clintojiii. 



Expanse 2 inches. 



It is exactly the same size and shape of Messrs. Grote and 

 Strecker's figures of Clintonii; and of two specimens, $ and?, 

 in my own collections. 



Thorax darker than in Clintonii, and more speckled with 

 black. 



The thorax and collar are of an uniform color, while in some 

 five or six examples of Clintonii that I have seen, the color is 

 brownish, tipped with a well defined black line, below which is a 

 white or grayish one. Abdomen a little more brownish, than in 

 Clintonii. Upper surface ; primaries much darker, especially in 

 the middle area, than in Clintonii ; and covered with blackish 

 specks ; basal line well marked ; t. a. line a little more distinct 

 than in Clintonii, and differently shaped ; in Clintonii, starting 

 from the costa, it makes a long sharp tooth posteriorly, and then 

 curves inwardly to the black basal dash ; while in Helefie the 

 tooth is small and points anteriorly ; the line curves irregularly 

 across the cell, where it forms another tooth pointing anteriorly: 

 from there to the base it is similar to Clintonii ; t. p. line also 

 differs from Clintotiii ; the two teeth are unequal and blunt ; the 

 second one being very small, and rounded at the point ; while in 

 Clintonii they are both large, sharp and of nearly equal length ; 

 from the teeth the line is undulating and continues down to the 

 base of the wing, without showing the long black sinus, which 

 occurs in Clintonii; the sub-marginal line is whitish in color; 



