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tlie rest of wing. Secondaries light yellow ; marginal .ind inwial hands of ordinnrv width, the latter somewhat clhowed and does not reach 

 to the abdominal margin hv over an eighth of an inch ; fringes whitish-grey. Under surface pale yellow, primaries with a pale brownish 

 or grey marginal band darkest inwardly ; mesial hand widest in the middle and terminjies at both costa and interior margin in a point : 

 no sub-basal band, only a faint grey spot miilw.ay between costa and interior margin; fringe white, edged otilwardly Hitli pale brown. 

 Secondaries have a paie grey marginal band, palest anteriorly where it is lost in the ground color of wing, a brown mesial band strongly 

 elbowed; fringe white. 



Kor the knowledj,<jof this beautifnl (species I am indebted to Dr. G. M. Levette, of the Indiana Geological Survey, a most ardent .id- 

 mirer of nature, who captured it in the grove near the State Hou.se, in Indianapolis. I have also since seen e.tamples sent from Texas, in 

 the Cambridge Museum. 



C.\TOCALA A.'sr.vsi.\, nov. sp. 



E.xpands 4 to 4} inches. Head and body brownish grey. Upper surface, primaries gieyish brown, having much the general appear- 

 ance, in colour and markings, of the darker e.tamples of Amatrix. Secondaries scarlet, with black marginal and mesial bands. This 

 species vies in size, though not in beauty, with Murmorata, and looks, at a casual glance, not unlike a gigantic edition o[ Amatriz. 



Received with a number of other things from Lower California; it also occurs in Texas. 



May, 1874. 



Dr. Herman Behr lately had the kindness to send me the types of liis following unpublished Californian species: 



Dryobota Californica, Behr, Mas. 



Size and general appearance of D. Protea, Bkh., but the primaries are more ash-grey aud devoid of the greenish cast of that species. 

 <^ Secondaries white, with laint mesial line and discal spot. 



Tii-;NiocAMi'A Pavi.k, Behr, Mss. 



A triUe smaller than T. GmcilU, F., which it otherwise closely resemb'es; the most marked differences are in the sub-marginal line 

 of primaries which is more uneven, in the presence of a pale transverse line running from the reniform to the interior margin, aud in most 

 examples the prevalence of a more reddish cast of colour throughout the upper surface of primaries. 



CosMiA Sambuci, Behr, Mss. 



Expands H-ll inch. Upper surface primaries very pale greenish yellow, in some specimens very pale cinnamon colour, transverse 

 posterior and anterior and discal spot a darker shade of the ground colour, between the two lines a transverse shade of .same colour, broad- 

 est and darkest at cosia, which it reaches by crossing the transverse posterior line, which towards the costa gives an abrupt bend inwards. 

 Secondaiies while. Head and body same colour as piimaries. 



Cucui.Ll.\ S0LID.\GINIS, Behr, Mss. 



Expands 1^-- inches. Head and tegulae ashen, thorax between the latter dark brown, abdomen dark grey with a brown dorsal line. 

 Primaries grey, the median space suti'used with darker colour, which in one example extends to the ba.se; it comes nearer in the markings 

 to Laciuc(e, Esp., but is entirely distinct from that or any other .species known of. Secondaries smoky. 



CucuLi.i.v Matricari.e, Behr, Mss. 



Expands 11-1 s inch. Head and body grey, latter with a dark dorsal line. Primaries uniform pale ashen, (he line dark lines are all 

 abbreviated and have the appearance of being heavier than in any othc^ known species, and gives the whole wing a spotted rather than 

 striped appearance, entirely difli;rent from its allies. Secondaries white, edged exteriorly with a fine brown line. In both this and the pre- 

 ceding the wings are a little broader in proportion to their length than in the eastern species. 



Plusia EcHiNocYSTiDis, Behr, Mss. 



.Size of Precadonis. Head and ihora.x dark greyish brown; abdomen pale brown. Primaries dull dark greyish brown, which on 

 close inspection proves to be intricately varied and shaded ; a silver mark much like a U, attaclied to the lower part of which is a small 

 round or oval silver spot. Fringe same colour as rest of wing. Secondaries smoky, outer half darkest ; fringe white. 



Plusia Gamma, Linna-ns, Syst. Nat., X, .513, (1758). 



Thirteen examples agreeing in every respect with those from various parts of Europe. 



May, 1874. 



