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the reft of wing. Scpon'larles light yellow; marginal and mesial bands of ordinnn' width, the latter somewhat elbowed and does not reach 

 to the abdominal margin bv over ancighth of an inc-h ; fringes whitish-grey. Undur surfape pale yellow, prim.iries with a pale brownish 

 or grev marginal band darkest inwardly; mesial l)and widest in the middle and terminites at both eosta .and interior margin in a point ; 

 no ,sub-b.isar band, only a faint grev spot midw.ay between costa and interior margin; fringe white, edged ontwardly with pale brown. 

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

 elbowed ; fringe white. 



l'"or the knowled^ri of this beantifnl species I am indebted to Dr. G. M. Levette, of the Indiana Geological Survey, a most ardent ad- 

 mirer of nat\irc, who captured it in the grove near the State House, in Indianapoli.s. I have also since seen examples sent from Te-^cas, in 

 the Cambridge Museum. 



Catocala Aspasia, nov. sp. 



Expands 4 to 4) inches. Head and body brownish grey. Upper surface, primaries greyish brown, having much the general .appear- 

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

 species vies in size, though not in beauty, with Mmmorata, and looks, at a casual glance, not unlike a gigantic edition o{ Ainairix. 



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 Herman Behr lately had the kindness to send me the types of his following unpublished Californian species : 



Dryohota Californica, Behr, Mss. 



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

 Secondaries white, with laint mesial line and discal spot. 



T^niocampa PAViyT5, Behr, Mss. 



A trifle smaller than T. Gracilis, F., which it otherwise closely resembles; 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, and in most 

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



CosMiA Sambuci. Behr, Mss. 



Expands l:}-li inch. Upper surface primaries very pale greenish yellow, in some specimens very pale cinnamon colour, transverse 

 posterior and anterior and di.scal spot a darker shade of ihe ground colour, betwee'n 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. 

 Secondaries white. Head and body same colour as piiinaries. 



Cucullia Soltdaginis, Behr, Mss. -^M 



Expands l|-2 inches. Head and ffgiib-e ashen, thorax between the latter dark brown, abdomen dark grey with a brown dorsal line. 

 Primaries grey, the median sp.ace suHiised with darker colour, which in one example extends to the base; it comes nearer in the markings 

 to LacluccE, Esp., but is entirely distinct from that or any other species known of Secondaries smoky. ■ _| 



CucuLi.iA Matricabi/t,, Behr, Mss. ^w 



Expands 1J-1| inch. Head and body grey, latter with adark dorsal line. Primaries uniform pale a«hen, the line dark linesareall 

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

 striped appearance, entirely dift'erent 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 Precalionis. 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, attached ti> 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. 



Pltjsia Gamma, Linna>us, Syst. Nat., X. 513, (1758). 



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



May, 1874. 



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