CATOCALA AGRIPPINA. Nov. s... ^ 



(PLATK XI, FIG. 1 cT. '^ 9. 3 d" variety.) 



Male. Expands 3 inches. 



Head and body, above, blackish grey. Beneatii, greyish wliite. 



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^d 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 and mesial bands, the space between which is narrow; fringes 

 white. 



Female. Expands 3^ inches. 



Groundcolour of wings lighter; the 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 examples taken in Texas by Mr. J. Boll. 



Prominently distinguishable by the reddish brown, which appears to overlay, more or less, 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 partially 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 points; reniform, dark brown, which color is continued from 

 thence to the costa. 



Secondaries, black ; fringes white. 



Under surface, marked as in Agrippina, 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 Catocalae, which in beauty is not even excelled 

 by the queenly Eelidu. 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 Phalanga to Pnlaogama. 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 s. 



(PLATE XI, FIG. .5, J^.) 



Expands 2 inches. 



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



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

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



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