SATURNIA GALBINA. 105 



yeoondaries, discal ocellus same as on primaries, but a little smaller; sub-marginal brown iiaml narrowest 



in the middle. 



Under surflice much as above, but the sub-marginal l)ands have a white, undulate line running through 



them frotn inner margin to costa. 



The female expands 2J inches, and was evidently the only sex known to Dr. Clemens, as his description, 

 which I here append, applies to it and not the male. 



" \.nti-nn;e hitcoiis. F.oclv nnd lifad ratlier dark brown. Fore wings yellowish-brown, with a rather faint, whitish angiilated 

 band at the lia.<e I >n the dise.al nerviire is a round, Idack ocellus havini,' a central subvitreoiis streak containing a yellow circle, and 

 towan'u the base' of the wing a slender blue crescent. A whitish band cresses the middle of tlie nervules, with a faint wavy one between 

 it aiid ihc hinci margin. In the apical interspace is a black spot, with a crimson streak to the tip of the wing. The marginal portion 

 of the will" is whitish anil is tinged in the terminal edge with pale yellowish-brown. Hind wings similar in color and ornamentation 

 to the fore%vings, the ocelli being somewhat smaller. < In the under surfac; which is similar in hue to tlie upper, the faint wavy band* 

 of the fore and hind wings are very distinct. 



•'Te.xas. Collection of C'apt. Pope." 



Though in the above, which is all the author says, there is nothing to indicate which sex was described, nor is the important item 

 of size mentioned, still I have no doubt that this is the species alluded to. ,,„,„. ^ , , . ,, , . 



I received six examples, live f , one ?, from south-western Texas, on the border of the Rio Grande, but most of them betore 

 comin..- into mv possession had siiHered to such an extent, from the ravages of mites or other insect depredators, as to be utterly woi;th- 

 less In the Museum of the Department of Agriculture, at Washington, are also examples which, I believe, are from the same locality. 



This species is exceedingly rare, the examples cited being, as far as I am aware, the only ones extant in any collection. As far 

 as my knowledge extends, this is'the only true Suturnia, Schranck, known to occur in the western liemisphere ; and, though of a somewhat 

 slighter form, closelv resembles the common European spiecies, especially Spmi, Schiff. 



HEPIALUS THULE. Nov Sp 



(PLATE XII, FIG. 6 9.) 



Female. Expands 3 inches. ,. , . , , tt, 1 



Upper surface vellowish-white. Primaries, costa from base to two-thirds its length reddish-brown, 

 within which colour, about equidistant from each other, are three H shaped yellowish-white marks; the brown 

 colour of costa extends into the discal space, at its base there enclosing two small silver spots, the one nearest 

 the costa being the largest; directly beyond the outer extremity of the discal space, the brownish colour also 

 extends the same distance, likewise 'enclosing two closely-connected silver spots; two sub-marginal bands com- 

 posed of rather small, reddish-brown spots, the innermost extending from near inner angle to costa near the apes, 

 the other not reaching to the costa, but connected with the first at the last sub-costal nervule ; half way be- 

 tween the innermost sub-marginal band and the brownish costal space is a brown line extending from costa 

 inwards as far as where the sub-marginal bands connect; a marginal row of small brown ^pots ; on inner 

 maro-in near the termination of the sub-median nervure, is a small brown spot. 



''Secondaries tinged with reddish on the costa, and very slightly so on cilliffi of exterior and abdominal 

 margins ; otherwise immaculate. 



Under surface same colour as above, with the markings faintly repeated. j at t tj 



From a single female sent me from Montreal, Canada, by my excellent entomological friend, Mr, i^ . i5. 

 Caulfiekl, who stated that it was captured in a park in that city. , , , • 



• It is the only example of this grand in.sect I have ever seen or heard of, and is so far probably unique. 



NOTES ON VARIOUS SPECIES AND VARIETIES. 



Lyc^na Regia, Boisduval, Lep. Cal., p. 46 ( 1869), is Lyccena Sonorensls, Felder, Reise Nov., Lep. II, p. 281, T. 35, f. 3, 4 (1865). 



LVC.F.NA Rhjsa, Boisduval, Lep. Cal., p. 51 (1869), is a synonym of Lyct^na Cakdina, Reakirt, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sc. Phila., 

 p. 244(1866). 



Catocala Levettei, Grote, in advance sheets of Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. (under date of September, 1874), is identical willx 

 C. Judith, p. 96, T. XI, f. o, in this work (printed August, 1874). 



Catocala Anna, GJrote, 1. c, is Caiocala Amestris, 1. c. 



Catocala Adoptina, Grote, I. c, is Catocala Delilah, 1. c. 



GoRGOPi'i QuDKlGrxTATUS, Grote, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phila., Vol. Ill, p. 73, T. I, f. 6 (1864), appears to be, and I am of the opinion 

 undoubtedly Is the s^Trne as Harr s' species, Argenteo-maculatus, Cat. Ins. Mass., p. 72 . 1835), to which species, Grote says m h'^ d^^enp- 

 d^n the former, it is allied, and he further adds, " the disposition of the median bands on the anterior wnigs ib somewh.at diflerent 

 and thev are not ^o largelv tinged with ochraceous, the two white spots are much smaller and the apex apparentlv not so falcate, while 

 the coloration of abdomen", metathorax and posterior wings, readily distinguishes the present trom Harris species. 



