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and Tepper, for the opportunity to examine their collections, and for 

 the loan and donation of specirueus. 



Hy. Edwards. 

 New York, October 23, 1880. 



Note. — Among the examples loaned to me by Dr. Bailey was a very curious 

 one of G. Residua, Grote, probably an aborted form. The primaries are extremely 

 short, and very much rounded at the apices, while the pale posterior margin is 

 remarkably broad. The secondaries are also very much rounded, and the insect 

 has a very short and stout appearance, looking at first sight unlike a Catocala. 

 It expands but 2 inches. 



Description of a New Species of Pleusioneura from 

 Central America. 



By James S. Bailey, A. M., M. D. 



Pleusioneura FritzG-aertneri, n, sp. Allied to Eligius; the 

 primaries are less indented on the outer margin below vein 2 ; the 

 expanse is greater ; the transparent spot below vein 1 at the base of 

 the vein in Eligius is surmmmted in the fork of the vein by a second 

 in FritzGaertneri ; the mesial band of translucent spots is narrower 

 and the smaller inferior spots less rounded and longer. The color is 

 smoky brown with an olivaceous tinge ; the primaries with double 

 clouded transparent dots at base of vein 1 ; a mesial band of translu- 

 cent spots with arcuate edges, of which three larger, one on costa, 

 one on cell, and one filling interspace between veins at base and vein 

 1, and three smaller, one between veins 2 and 3, and two on sub-me- 

 dian interspace. The sub-terminal band indicated by three approxi- 

 mate sub-costal spots and two beyond these elongate on the inter- 

 spaces oj^posite the cell. Hind wings mottled, without spots. i*eflect- 

 ing the paler macular bands of the under surface, which are more 

 diffuse than in Eligius. Fringes beneath distinct, checkered with 

 whitish. The greatest expanse of twelve specimens in my collection 

 is 1 1-4 inch ; the least, 1 1-8 inch. 



This unique species is named from its discoverer Doctor M. G. R. 

 FritzGaertneri, State Geologist of the Republic of Honduras, C A. 



The story of the capture of this Pleusioneura is interesting, and 

 is here given in the Doctor's own language : 



Bri.LETrx Brooklyn Ent. soc . Noveml>?r, 1880. 



