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parallel in this subspecies. As a matter of fact nobody 

 will expect to find anything similar to nerissa in speci- 

 mens from the North, for nerissa is a decidedly south- 

 ern form which I believe does not occur outside of 

 Texas. The merely suffused specimens of arnica 

 which are found in the whole amica territory do not 

 have the characters of nerissa as given by its author. 

 If it is intended to place these suffused specimens 

 separately, 1 propose to name them : /. melanotica 

 form. nov. 



There is in my collection an interesting amica speci- 

 men from Arkansas, having a deep bluish-black ground- 

 color and besides having some minor differences from 

 amica it has a broad black tranverse bar in the 

 median area where there is the transverse shade in 

 amica specimens. However, the variation in the prim- 

 aries of amica is quite extensive and it therefore would 

 be premature to base upon a single specimen only, the 

 description of a new form. 



There is a color-variation in the secondaries of both 

 amica and its subspecies. In typical specimens of species 

 and subspecies, the color is light yellow, but there 

 are specimens with strong orange-yellow ground-color 

 of secondaries. The color of the abdomen is always 

 in accordance with that of the secondaries, although 

 it may be intermingled with gray. Since specimens 

 with strong orange-yellow secondaries are found in 

 amica as well as its forms and its subspecies, I propose 

 to name such specimens collectively: /. aurantiaca 

 form. nov. The 9 type of novanglige, fig. 2 belongs 

 to this form. 



The amica-group thus tabulates itself as follows: 

 Catocala amica Hubner 

 f. amica aurantiaca Reiff 

 f. lineella Grote 

 f. lineella aurantiaca Reiff 

 f. nerissa Hy. Edwards 

 f. nerissa aurantiaca Reiff 

 f. melanotica Reiff 

 f. melanotica aurantiaca Reiff 

 Subspecies novangliae Reiff 



f. novangliae aurantiaca Reiff' 



