30 BARNES AND McDUNNOUGH: CATOCALA 



collection from the San Bernardino Mountains; the normal size is that of arizonce. As nothing is known of the life- 

 history, we leave it for the present as a species. It is only known from southern California. 



Catocala electilis Walker 

 Plate VIII, fig. 24; PI. XXI, figs. 1 and 2 (claspers). 



Catocala electilis Walkee, 1857, Cat. Lep. Het. Brit. Mus., XIII, p. 1209. Druce, 1880, Biol. Cent. Am. Lep. Het., I, p. 360, PL xxxi 



fig. 8. Beutenmuller, 1897, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., IX, p. 211. 

 Catocala cassandra Hy. Edwards, 1875, Pacific Coast Lep., XIV, p. 7. 



The species has been generally confused with junctura and arizonce but the excellent figure given should render it 

 easily recognizable. Both electilis and cassandra are based on Mexican material but the species extends into southern 

 Arizona; Beutenmuller records it from the Tonto Basin and we have a single specimen from the Huachuca Mountains 

 which we are inclined to refer here. 



Catocala hippolyta Strecker 



Plate IV, fig. 3; PI. XXI, figs. 5 and 6 (claspers). 

 Catocala hippolyta Strecker, 1874, Lep. Rhop. Het., p. 99. Hy. Edwards, 1875, Pacific Coast Lep., XIV, p. 4. 



A very distinct species with its pale gray primaries and narrow black band on secondaries. 



The early stages are unknown. 



The species is only known from the Coast Range of California extending from Sonoma County to Los Angeles County. 



Catocala stretchi Behr 



Plate IV, figs. 4, 5, 14, 15, 18, and 19; PI. XXI, figs. 7 and 8 (claspers). 



Catocala stretchii Behr, 1870, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, III, p. 24. French, 1892, Can. Ent., XXIV, p. 229 (larva). 



Catocala portia Hy. Edwards, 1880, Bull. Brooklyn Ent. Soc, II, p. 94. 



Catocala stretchii var. sierra? Beutenmuller, 1897, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., IX, p. 212. 



We have been obliged to differ from Mr. Beutenmuller in our conception of this species, the manuscript before us 

 having placed sierrce as a variety of aspasia and made portia a good variety of stretchi. 



Stretchi was described from Virginia City, Nevada; portia, from Lake Tahoe, California, and sierrce, from the same 

 locality; all three type localities being, therefore, practically identical. The type of stretchi being lost, there only remains 

 a specimen in the Hy. Edwards collection marked " true to type"; this, however, is from Havilah, Kern County, in south- 

 ern California, a locality vastly removed from the type locality of stretchi. We have carefully examined this specimen, 

 as well as the type of portia, comparing them with a long and variable series of what we consider stretchi from Truckee, 

 California. We can match very closely the " true to type" specimen with specimens from Truckee (PL IV, figs. 14 and 15), 

 but further material from the same general locality as this Havilah specimen (San Bernardino County) shows distinctly 

 that the southern form (PL IV, fig. 4) is decidedly more heavily marked, as a general rule, and more variegated than the 

 Sierra Nevada form. As regards portia, the type is worn and faded but is apparently only a specimen showing rather 

 less maculation on primaries than usual; there is nothing in our opinion to warrant the retention of the name which, in 

 view of the facts that we can match the "true to type" and the "type" specimens with specimens in our Truckee series 

 and that the type localities are practically identical, should sink as a synonym of stretchi. In our series of the form 

 sierrce Beutenmuller (Fig. 18) there are specimens which can scarcely be distinguished from sara French. In all proba- 

 bility the Rocky Mountain species which at present goes under the name of aspasia, with sara as a variety, will prove 

 to be merely a race of stretchi. Figure 5 of plate IV is listed by Beutenmuller as a variety of stretchi and figure 19 as a 

 pink form of portia; we leave them doubtfully under this species as, without a knowledge of the specimens and their 

 locality, absolute identification is impossible. 



The larval description given by French probably applies to the southern form, as the ova came from Colton, San 

 Bernardino County, and certainly points to a close relationship between stretchi and aspasia when compared with our 

 own description of the larva of this latter species. 



