100 ENTOMOLOGICAL NOTES. 



In colour and general appearance, though not in size and detail, it strongly reminds one of the European Puerpera.* 



Catocala Perdita, Henry Edwards, MSS. 



Expands 2.] inches. Very close to Faustina, but the primaries are of a more bluisli tinge, having none of the yellowish cast of that 

 species ; the transverse lines are heavier, and there is generally more sprinkling of black atoms throughout. The apices of the secon- 

 daries of Faustina are partly rosy, in this they are entirely white. San Mateo County, California. 



There is also another example, much mutilated, which is so close to Irent, Behr, that I should have considered it identical had it 

 not been for the circumstance that Dr. Behr's species has a good sized white apical spot on tip of secondaries, whilst in the example in 

 question the black marginal band fills out the whole apex to the fringe. Also the mesial band in this example is narrower, although 

 that is not necessarily specific, as in some of my examples of C. Nupta this band is only one-half the width that it is in other examples. 

 I have returned this example to Mr. Edwards for his further examination, considering that as he discovered it, and is, moreover, work- 

 ing up the Heterocera of the Far West, it is only simple justice that he should name it. Well knowing, at the same time, that it will 

 not in his hands, at least, be degraded with such associations as Browniana, Snuggsiensis or Tompkinsii. Shades of the mighty ! with 

 what names do some of the American Entomologists a.ssoeiate Humboldt, Cuvier and Latreille. It remindeth one not of the lamb and lion 

 lying down together, but of an illustration I once saw, where a small poodle, with closely-shaved hind quarters, was complacently 

 gazing on the caged monarch of the forest. 



Among a large quantity of material captured in Texas by Mr. J. Boll, and lately received by me, were two examples of Colias 

 Chrysotheme cf 9, which after the most carefnl comparison I found to agree exactly with the large suite of European specimens in 

 my cabinet. There is the same suffusion of greyish atoms on upper surface of secondaries, and the .same heavy greenish on under 

 surface ; they are the same size as the European examples, and agree with them throughout, to the utmost minutiae of shade and mark- 

 ing, and are as distinct from Eurythemef and its var. Keewaydiii J as they are from Aurora \ or Pyrroihot. || Dr. Boisduval long since 

 credited this species to N. America, but the American Lepidopterists have united in erroneously maintaining that Eurytlierae was the 

 insect he had in view, and that Ohrysotheme was not found here at all. 



* Giorna, Cal. Ent., Torina, 1791. 



t Boisduval, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., p. 286, (1852). 



X Edwards, Butt. N. Am., Colias 4, (1869). 



I Esper, Schmett. I, 2, t. 83, (1783). 



II Hubner, Samml. Ex. Schmett., (1816-1836). 



August, 1874. 



