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Che Canadian Entomologist. 
MOI V. LONDON, ONT., SEPTEMBER, 1873. No. 9 
ONT Ee GaN Wis € AL OIC AWAY 
BY+AUG. R. GROTE., BUFFALO, N. Y. 
Catocala Meskei, Grote. 
Forewings dentate, pulverulent, of a rather lighter grey than C. 
unijuga. Median lines black, single, not very distinct. A whitish space 
before the large bisannulate concolorous reniform ; sub-reniform likewise 
whitish, closed, joined to the t. p. line, the latter jagged but without very 
prominent discal teeth, making a deeper and narrower sinus above vein 
than in C. wnijuga. Subterminal upright, dentate, shade (preceding the 
blackish line) distinct. Terminal line appearing as black lunulated inter- 
spaceal marks. Hind wings bright red, somewhat pinkish. The black 
median band is straight, not regularly curved as in C. parfa, and straighter 
than in C. #nijuga, rather narrow, nowhere greatly excavate, rounding and 
narrower on the interspace between veins 1 and 2 opposite the excavation 
of the marginal band, arrested at vein 1, but a few blackish scales mark 
its continuance towards internal margin. Marginal band narrower than in 
C. unijuga. Ciliæ white, with a few red scales at base, especially at 
apices. Beneath the median band of the hind wings is narrower than 
above, with the same peculiarities, constricted at veins 2 and 5, and con- 
tinued by scattered scales beyond vein 1. Expanse 78 m. m. 
Lent me by Mr. O. Meske, after whom I name the species, from near 
Albany, N. Y., and who writes me that it has been taken in considerable 
numbers by a collector in that vicinity. 
Note 1.—Mr. Walker’s description of C. yunctura applies to the 
secondaries of C. meskei, but the color is not “red lead, orange-red 
towards the base,” nor is there any “ large elongated apical spot,” nor 
