96 CATOCALA JUDITH. 



Secondaries black, with black fringes. 



Under surftice ; primaries, a small white basal ])atch ; the black bands are so nearly confluent as to leave 



but little white. p , , , ■ 



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

 ginal and mesial bands. 



Described from two examples, (f $, in the collection of Mr. James Angus, of West larms, JNew York, 

 near which place they were captured several years since. 



CATOC^ALA AMESTRIS. xNov. Sp. 



(PLATE XI, FIG. 6, (^.) 



Expands 2 inches. 



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



Upper surfiice; primaries 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 moderate, 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 ('. Neonympha* more than any American species. 



CATOCALA DELILAH. Nov. Sp. 



(PLATE XI, FIG. 7, $.) 



Expands 2^ inches. 



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



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

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

 terminal pale fawn-coloured, edged outwardly with dark brown, where 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. 



CATOCALA AHOLAH. Nov. Sp. 



(PLATE XI, FIG. 8, 9.) 



Expands 1| inches. 



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



Upper surface ; primaries a.shen, even coloured ; transverse anterior and posterior lines fine bur distinct, 

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

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



*-Esper, hJchmett., 198, 1, 2, (1790 1. 



