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y GICAL NEWS 
EL NGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION 
| Mr Fe cdagat OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 
‘XIX FEBRUARY, 1908. No, 2. 
he CONTENTS: 
SEEPS T ET EERE He 
PEST E EERE TET Cee eee eee 
( 
Prrrrrrrirrin 
BsRorial ..«..- «cess + % 
ot ) = SS Neeapeeieres ie 
tes on C. dejecta Strecker, and Other Species of 
___Catocala from East River, Conn. 
7 vd By Cuas. R. Ery, Washington, D. C. 
phe (Puute V) 
ni ne original description of C. dejecta Strecker,* this species 
es pee 30 teenl Gash on the primaries Hulst also, in 
monc non the genus Cafoce/a, makes the absence of the 
Tie Ut tis tapelbdah Gharecterlétics sepateting this 
cies from others closely allied to it. 
ig July and August, 1907, the writer collected thirty- 
] | of a species of Cafocala having black secondaries. 
Seviaaes tables Wire Giatictakably C. dejecte, but the 
thirteen, females, differed from the published de- 
criptions of this species in having in every case a decided 
basal dash. During the period mentioned the only other black- 
‘inged forms of Cafocala captured were cpione and fristis. It 
is therefore evident that the thirteen females of the above series 
e of the same species as the males—that is, C. dejecta—and 
z: the literature relating to this species is incom- 
plete in that the male only has heretofore been described, and 
7” _ © Ball, Brook. Ent. Soc., ti, y7, sie; Bull. Brook. Ent. Soc., vil, 33, sy. 
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