20 CATOCALA JIELICTA. 



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 diseal spot 

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

 dian band of the nppcr side repeated. 



Fkmai.e. Expands 3} inches. 



Colors and markings as in male, l)ut bands of primaries much intensified, heavier and 

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



Under snrliiee less black on all wings than the male, diseal sjwt of inferiors smaller, 

 Innate, and disconnected from the median black part. 



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

 ealidae; it is found occasionally in various parts of Xew York, scl.lora in Pennsylvania, but 

 occurs in some plenty near Providence, Ehodc Island. 



I have little doubt, that when Guenee in his Species General (Vol. VII, p. 83,) credited 

 N. America with C. Fraxini it was from examples of C. 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 Lcpidoptera of our Western Slope to those of Europe, and it 

 would almost .seem that eventually every European Species is to find its analogue with us. 



CATOCALA BRISEIS. Edwards 

 PBGC. ENT. SOC. PHIL. 11, p. -508. ( 1864. ) 



( PLATE III, FIG. 7. ? ) 



Female. Expands 2| inches. 



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



Upper surface, 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 broad and a little elbowed at centre ; some black mixed 

 with the red hairs of the basal portion. 



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 diseal 

 lune which connects with inuer edge of median band. 



Habitat. New York, Rhode Island. 



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



The type is in the museum of the Am. Ent. Soe. 



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



