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96 CATOCALA JUDITH. 



Secondaries black, with black fringes. 



Under surface ; primaries, a small white basal patch ; the black bands are so nearly confluent as to leave 

 but little white. 



Secondaries, basal third white, rest l)lack with but faint indications of the pale space between the mar- 

 ginal and mesial bands. 



Descrilu'd from two exam])les, ^ 9, in the collection of Mr. James Angus, of West Farms, New York, 

 near which place they were captured several years since. 



CATO(JALA AMi:STRIS. Nov. sp. 



(PLATE XI, FIG. 6, ^.) 



Expands 2 inches. 



Head and thora.x, above, ash grey ; abdomen yellow. Beneath, dirty white. 



Ui)per .surface; ])rimaries ashen, transverse anterior, double and from middle to costa very heavy, form- 

 ing a diagonal black bar; transverse posterior, fine but distinct; reniform moderate size, the space between 

 this and transverse anterior line is much paler than the rest of the wing ; fringes concolourous with the wings. 



Secondaries bright yellow; marginal band n)odorate, broken towards the anal angle where it is replaced 

 by a spot; mesial band rather narrow and does not reach to the abdominal margin; fringes white. 



Under surface yellow ; sub-basal and marginal bands brownish ; mesial bands darker and better defined 

 at their edges. 



Habitat. Texas. One example from Mr. J. Boll. 



Resembles the Russian C. Neonympha* more than any American species. 



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CATOCALA DELILAH. Nov. Sp. 



(PLATE XI, FIG. 7, $.) 



Expands 2J inches. 



Head and thorax brown ; abdomen greyisii brown. .Beneath, yellowish. 



Upper surface; ])rimaries rich velvety brown ; transverse anterior line very heavy and dark, from the 

 middle of this to the base runs a dark shade; transverse posterior dark brown or black, and distinct ; sub- 

 terminal pale fawn-coloured, edged outwardly with dark brown, wliere it is prolonged into acute parallel teeth 

 which reach to the exterior margin, the three upper ones being the most prominent; reniform and sub-reniform 

 forming, as it were, one spot, the latter entirely disconnected from the transverse posterior line; fringe brown. 



Secondaries dark warm yellow ; marginal band broad ; mesial almost straight from costa to where it 

 elbows towards the lower part of wing; apex yellow ; fringe yellow, with some greyish at the terminations of 

 veins. 



Under surface dark yellow, even coloured ; sub-basal band of primaries not as dark coloured as other two 

 bands, which are more sharply defined and comparatively narrow. 



Habitat. Texas ; received from Mr. J. Boll. 



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CATOCALA AHOLAH. Nov. Sp. 



y ' (PLATE XI, FIG. 8, ?. 



Expands IJ inches. 



Head and thorax ash grey; abdomen yellowish. Beneath, whitish. 



Upper surface ; ])rimaries ashen, even coloured ; transverse anterior and [)osterior lines fine but distinct, 

 the latter but little dentated ; renitbrtn large, greenish white, extending from this to the apex is a dark brown 

 dash or shade, the edge of which towards the costa js sharply defined ou the pale ground color of wings, whilst 



» Ksper, yehmelt., 19S, 1, 2, (179G|. 



