184 PROCEEDINGS OF THE CALIFORNIA 
Mr. C. D. Gibbes described the Candle Nut presented as the 
fruit of the Alewrites triloba, a tree of the family Euphorbiace, 
grows 20 to 30 feet high; leaves tri-lobed; fruit about two 
inches in diameter; inner nut very hard shell, within which the 
meat is preserved for years; good to eat, but rather rich. The 
oil is easily expressed, and is sent to England for candle making. 
As a drying oil it ranks among the best. The Hawaiians string 
the kernels of the nuts on slender strips of bamboo and light 
them as candles; they burn with a peculiar but pleasant odor. 
Dr. G. F. Becker read a paper on ‘‘ Notes on a new feature of 
the Comstock Lode.” 
Dr. Hermann Behr made some remarks on ‘‘ Phylloxera.” 
Henry Edwards read the following paper: 
Pacific Coast Lepidoptera, No. 15.—Description of a new 
species of Catocala, from San Diego. 
BY HENRY EDWARDS. 
Calocala Augusta. n. sp. Hy. Edw. 
Primaries. Ground color, very pale fawn-color, almost whitish. All the 
lines, particularly the sub-terminal, strong and distinct. Basal space, rather 
large, covered with black irrorations; basal half-line, almost obsolete. T. a 
broad on costa, with a double tooth; thence slightly arcuate to a space be- 
yond the middle, there forming a deep tooth, and bent again to the internal 
margin. This line is deep velvety black, edged anteriorly by a whitish shade. 
T. p., with a deep median double tooth, running obliquely from the median 
nerve to the internal margin, in a series of four teeth, and near the margin 
lost in a brownish shade. Reniform, large, distinct, whitish, edged with 
black. Sub-reniform, also, large and white, both with grayish shade posteri- 
orly. Sub-terminal line, very strongly marked, with deep but even teeth, 
edged anteriorly with gray shade. Sub-terminal spots between the nervules, 
well defined, oblong, deep black. Fringes whitish, mottled with brown. 
Secondaries. Rosy red, with yellowish tinge. Mesial band, moderate, 
almost straight inwardly until it reaches the middle, when it narrows and 
terminates about 24 lines from abdominal margin. Marginal band also mod- 
erate, with two rather prominent teeth near the anal angle. Apices, broadly 
yellow. Emarginations and costa, also, with yellow shade. Fringes, white. 
Abdominal margin, clothed with fawn-colored hairs. 
Underside. The black bands of primaries are very broad; the white ones 
very clear and distinct; the sub-basal one not reaching the interior margin; 
and the posterior one much wider on the costa than on the internal margin. 
