20 CATOCALA RELICTA. 



Under surface, primaries white, with broad dark brown marginal and median and paler 

 basal bands; secondaries dark brown, basal patch large, wiiite, contains a black discal spot 

 which connects exteriorly with tiie black nf the remaining portion of the wing, the white me- 

 <lian band of the upper side repeated. 



Fkmai.e. Expands 3]- inches. 



Colors and markings as in male, but bands of primaries much intensified, heavier and 

 better defined, and nearly whole surface more or less powdered with dark grey atoms. 



Under snriiicc less black on all wings than the male, discal sj)ot of inferiors smaller, 

 lunate, and disconnected from the median black j)art. 



This is one of the rarest, as it certainly is the most beautiful dl" the X. American Cato- 

 calidae; it is found occasionally in various parts of Xcw York, scl.lom in Pennsylvania, but 

 occurs in some i)lcnty near Providence, Khode Island. 



I have little doubt, that when Guence in his Species General (N'ol. VII, p. 83,) credited 

 X. America with C. Fra.xini it was from examjiles of (.'. Relicta that he drew his conclusion, 

 although there are and have been rumors of a blue banded Catocala like the former occurring 

 on the Pacific Coast, and time may resolve the rumors to a certainty, for we all know what a 

 wonderful resemblance bears the Lepidoptcra of our Western Slope to those of Europe, and it 

 would almost seem that eventually every Eumpean .Species is tt> fnid its analogue with us. 



CATOCJALA BRISEIS. Edwards 

 PKOC. EXT. SOC. PHIL. II, p. .50S. (1SG4.) 



( PLATE III, FIG. 7. ? ) 



Fkmale. Ex])aiKln 2^' inches. 



Head and thorax above blackish grey, abdomen dark brown; beneath dirty white. 



Upper surfiiec, primaries blackish grey ; a sub-terminal white zig-zag band joined in- 

 teriorly by a much broken space of mixed yellow and white ; reniform obscure, sub-reniform 

 white, a white spot also joins the reniform on the inner side. 



Secondaries deep scarlet; a broad marginal band with two indentations on the inner edge 

 towards the anal angle; median band i)roa(l and a little elbowed at centre : some i)lack mixed 

 \\itli the red hairs of the basal jiortion. 



Fringes on all wings have the outer larger part white and the inner part adjoining the 

 ■wings black or dark grey. 



Under surface, primaries white with the usual three black bands; secondaries have inner 

 three-fourths scarlet, remaining fourth white ; marginal and mesial bands as above ; a discal 

 June which connects with inner edge of median band. 



Habitat. X"ew York, Rhode Island. 



Mus. Am. Ent. Soc, Mrs. Bridgham, Streckcr. 



The type is iu the museum of the Am. Ent. Soc. 



Uriscis, which is the rarest of its genus found in the Atlantic States, belongs to the same 



