82 THE LEPIDOPTERIST 



Monograph of the Genus Catocala 



It is a pleasure to announce the publication of Il- 

 lustrations of the North American Species of the 

 Genus Catocala by William Beutenmuller, with ad- 

 ditional plates and text, by Wm. Barnes, M. D, and 

 J. McDunnough Ph. D- It is issued as a memoir of 

 the American Museum of Natural History. New 

 Series. Vol. III. Part I. October, 1918. 



This im.portant work will be noticed in a future 

 issue of The Lepidopterist. 



The Lepidopterist has received the Proceedings of 

 the Entomological Society of British Columbia for 

 ]\Iarch, 1916 and IMarch, 1917. They contain im- 

 portant papers on the Geometrids of British Colum- 

 bia by E. H. Blackmore, the President of the Society. 

 The rarer species are figured in well printed plates, 

 and the article is well worth reading. 



A New Geometrid 



By L. W. Swett, Lexington, Mass. 



ClEORA EXHUMATA SP. NOV. 



The head, thorax and abdomen are fuscous gray, 

 palpi moderately long ; primaries dull ash gray, second- 

 aries the same color ; intradiscal band runs with slight 

 curve from inner margin towards discal spot, reaching 

 the costa about opposite it. 



The discal dot is large, round and black on all 

 wings, the extra discal line curves slightly outwardly 

 from inner margin to median vein where it is ac- 

 centuated on the veins by four or five serrations ; it 

 is accompanied by a brown shade line following the 

 same course ; a whitish indeterminate band follows the 

 shade line, then another brown one running parallel ; 

 outer margin pale gray with intervenullar dots at the 

 base of the fringe, which is long with a hair line run- 

 ning through it. 



The secondaries are same color as primaries and 

 are full and rounded except on the outer margin op- 



