

^ '^>x^f^ CATOCALA AGRIPPINA. Nov. Sp. 



(PLATE XI, FIG. 1 cf , 2 9, 3 J' variety.; 



Male. Expands 3 inches. 



Head and body, above, blackish grey. Beneatli, greyish white. 



Upper surface ; primaries blackish grey powdered with reddish brown ; transverse lines black, heaviest 

 towards the costa, less distinct as they near the inner margin ; between the transverse posterior and sub-mar- 

 ginal lines the space is brownish ; reniform indistinct and brown ; sub-reniform almost obsolete. 



Secondaries black, with greyish hairs at the base and abdominal margin ; fringe white, partly cut with 

 black at the terminations of the veins. 



Under surface ; primaries white; a bro.id marginal band, black inwardly and greyish exteriorly ; black 

 mesial and sub-basal bands which are connected with the same colour along the inner margin ; fringes white, 

 edged outwardly with blackish. 



Secondaries white, with black marginal anjl mesial bands, the space between which is narrow ; fringes 

 white. 



Female. Expands 3 J inciies. 



Groundcolour of wings lighter; tiic reddish brown sub-marginal band more conspicuous ; all the lines, as 

 well as the reniform and sub-reniform, distinct and much more sharply defined than in the male. 



Described from exam])ies taken in Texas by Mr. J. Boll. 



Prominently distinguishable by the reddish brown, which appears to overlay, more or le.ss, the dark grey 

 of primaries and thorax. 



Fig. 3 is a variety of the above, having the inner half of primaries whitish; from same locality. 



CATOCALA SAPPHO. Nov. Sp. 



(PLATE XI, FIG. 4, ?.) 



Expands 3 inches. \^' 



Head and thorax, white; abdomen blackish grey. Beneath, white. 



Upper surface ; primaries milky white ; transverse anterior line broad and black at and near costa, faint 

 and brownish on the inner half; transverse posterior fine and jjartialiy obsolete, outwardly this is succeeded 

 by a brownish band faint until it nears the costa where it becomes darker and more conspicuous; sub-terminal 

 line, faint; a row of small black sub-marginal ])uints; reniform, dark brown, which color is continued from 

 thence to the costa. 



Secondaries, black ; fringes white. 



Under surface, marked as in Ar/ripj^ina, but the black bands are much heavier, leaving with the excep- 

 tion of base of wings but little white. 



Habitat. Texas. Described from one example received from Mr. J. Boll. 



I can imagine nothing more lovely than this ermine of the Catocalje, which in beauty is not even excelled 

 by the queenly Relicta. I hesitated a long time ere I could bring myself to describe it as a separate species 

 from Agrippina, to which, notwithstanding its white color, it is closely allied, and to which I thought it 

 might bear the .same relation as does Phalanr/a to Palaogama. Its smaller size and some differences in the 

 undulations of the lines, however, have led me to the conclusion that it may be a species distinct. 



CATOCALA JUDITH. Nov Sp. 



(PLATE XI, FIG. .5, c?.) L^"^ ' 



Expands 2 inches. 



Head and thorax, above, light grey ; abdomen blackish grey. 



Upper surface ; primaries, jiale ashen, the same color as in Robinsonii ; transverse anterior and posterior 

 lines, black, only moderately conspicuous ; sub-terminal line, whitish. 



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