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BROOKLYN, FEB. 1879. No. 10. 



FOR THE BULLETIN. 



A new Catocala 



Among the interesting material brought by Mr. Albert Koebele 

 from Florida is a new species of Catocala which I have called 

 Catocala Sinuosa. This form is allied to C. coccinata, Grote, 

 and has bright crimson hind wings. It is remarkable for the 

 reduction of the median band to a narrow sinuate black mark not 

 reaching either margin and merely crossing the disc of the wing. 

 The fore wings are much as in C. coccinata, but paler, whitish 

 gray, the transverse lines much as in its congener. The under 

 surface of bjth wings is largely stained with bright red and here 

 the median fasciae are very narrow. 



On hind wings the median fascia is discontinued inferiorly. 

 On hind wings above the black marginal band is tolerably even, 

 continuous, terminating just before anal angle. This form, which 

 is of the size of Coccinata, cannot be confounded with the Texan 

 var. Circe of coccinata, which seems to intergrade with the type. 



C sinuosa is remarkable among our North Am. Catocala for the 

 abbreviation and narrowness of the band on the hind wings, on 

 their upper surface ; it reminds one of an exaggerated discal 

 mark rather than the customary fascia. a r. grote 



