BULLETIN OF THE BROOKLYN ENT. SOC. 97. 



Habitat Colorado. 



Mr. Strecker, has ten or twelve specimens in his possession which 

 are uniform with the type. 



I requested Mr. Strecker to name the species as I i^ot my material 

 from him. but he compelled me to take the burden and the honor. 



Geo. D. Hulst. 



Catocala carissima, n. var. 

 We have a form of Catocala cara which is not found in the North 

 and which seems to be the constant form in the South. The primaries 

 are more generally suffused with dull greenish yellow atoms. They have 

 brownish patches injected along the Costa between the transverse lines. 

 They have a blotch of greenish yellow near the apex. The transverse 

 lines are more distinct and the dentations of the t. p. line are comparatively 

 very short. This form common enough in collections we think deserves 

 a varietal name and give one. as above. 



Geo. D Hulst. 



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Catocala dejecta, n. sp. 



Intermediate between Ulalume and Desperata, bearing about the 

 same relation to Desperata that Ulalume bears to Lachrymosa. 



Expands 3 inches, collar black; tegulse gray powdered with black. 



Fore wings a little more narrowed than in Desperata, more in the 

 shape of Robinsonii. Surface smooth with a bluish shading; no basal 

 dash; transverse lines distinct; sub-reniform, in all known examples wide- 

 ly open, whitish. Reniform with a slight shade of brown within; t. p. 

 line with dentations much less produced than in Desperata; on the inner 

 margin it closely approaches the t. a. line and is hardly separated from it; 

 there is no apical dash or tendency towards one. 



Hind wings black; fringe white, with a marked tendency to dirty 

 gray, becoming blackish at the end of the veins. 



Dejecta is the form generally marked Ulalume in collections. I 1 

 is found to some extent in the Northern States. I have never seen a speci- 

 men of the typical Ulalume from any part of the country but Texas. 



The type of of the species is in the collection of Rev. Geo. D. Hulst 

 of Brooklyn L. I. I have also two corrosponding specimens in. my collection. 



H, Strecker. 



