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a blackish sub-apical shade, and the nervures very distinctly blackish 

 as they approach the margin; intranervular spaces marked with a 

 paler square spot, joined to the pale margin of the wing; fringe 

 brown-gray. Secondaries bright orange, median band narrow, con- 

 stricted in the middle, and passing into a cloud on the abdominal mar- 

 ginal. Marginal band very broad on the costa, narrowing gradually 

 to anal angle (which it does not quite reach), and slightly sinuous in- 

 ternally. Apex bright orange, same as ground color; fringe sordid 

 white. Thorax above grayish brown, concolorous with primaries. 

 Abdomen dull orange above, brownish at the tip, dusky drab beneath. 

 Under side of wings pale orange, a good deal freckled with brown at 

 the margins and along the costa of the secondaries; on the primaries 

 a black sub-basal cloud, a black median band, widest in the middle, 

 and bent anteriorly as it approaches the internal margin, and a black 

 sub-marginal, less distinct band, nearly equal throughout its length. 

 The secondaries have the median band still narrower than above, and 

 by the passage of the nervules broken into four nearly oblong spots; 

 sub-marginal band less distinct than on upper side; on all the bands 

 and spots of the lower side is a purplish reflection. 2 $ . 



Exp. wings 1.60 inch. 



Arizona. Coll. B. Neumoegen. 



Catocala Phoebe, n. var. — This is a form decidedly intermediate 

 between C. Badia and C. Ccelebs, and is probably that which has given 

 rise to so much discussion with reference to those two species. It is, 

 however, so distinct in general appearance as to deserve a name. C. 

 Badia has the primaries always a uniform brown color, while the t. p. 

 line is straight on its outer edge. In C. Phoebe this line is bent out- 

 wardly into a tooth on the second sub-costal, the space behind the line 

 being shaded with fawn color, another fawn color shade also appearing 

 behind the t. a. line; the black margin of the secondaries, also, is con- 

 tinued to the fringe in the middle, but in C. Badia it is cut by the* 

 orange margin ; in this latter respect C. Phoebe approaches C. Ccelebs, 

 from which, however, it differs in having all the lines and marks of 

 primaries more confused, browner, and not so distinctly black and gray 

 as are the markings in typical Ca-Iebs: the median band of secondaries, 

 also, always reaches the abdominal margin nearer the centre than in 

 Cielebs, thus leaving a broader space of orange. 



All the examples of C. Phoebe, examined by me (seven in number), 

 have been taken in New Hampshire. 



Catocala Hero, n. var. — I apply this name to a form of C. frater- 

 cjila, in which the space immediately behind the basal line is broadly 

 marked with clear white; this white space runs backward on the inter- 

 nal margin as far as the t. p. line, but does not include the reniform, 

 which is brownish, as usual. 



