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race sorsconi nov. 

 iconsors Auct. (partim.). 



1874. Stkr., Lep. Rhop. Het., 75, (partim.), pi. IX, f. 10, Calocala. 



1902, Beut., Bull. Amer. Mus. N. H., XVI, 391, pi. Ill, f. 18 (larval head). 

 Catocala. 



1913, Harop., Cat. Lep. Phal. B. M., XII, 2>Z, (partim.), pi. CXCIII, f. 10, 

 Catobapta. 



1903. Holland, Moth Book, p. 266. pi. XXXIV, f. 3, Catocala. 



1918, B. & McD., Mem. Amer. Mus. N. H., N. S., Ill, (1), Illus. N. A. 

 Sp. Gen. Catocala, p. 6, pi. Ill, f. 7, pi. XII, f. 16 (larva), pi. XVIII, 

 ff. 7, 8 (claspers), Catocala. 



1919, Reiff, Lepidoptera, III, 75, (typical form), Calocala. 



Mr. Reiff obviously neglected to glance at the Smith and Abbot plate 

 when he described pcnsacola, vi^hich apparently is a straight synonym. As 

 might be expected, the Florida and Georgia forms agree, being members of 

 the Gulf Strip division of the Lower Austral Faunal Zone. 



Mainlj- to correct this error, the authors propose the anagram sorsconi 

 for the more northern race of consors. 



As Reiff points out, this race possesses a wider median yellow band on 

 the hind v;ing ; the black central band and the outer black marginal band more 

 approximated; and the basal area darker; than in the southern race; the latter 

 usually more prominently marked with violaceous distad of the t. p. line of 

 the primaries, which are, in general, brighter. Texas specimens in the Barnes 

 Collection have primaries similar to the northern race ; secondaries somewhat 

 intermediate, nearly as in northern specimens; and may best rest under the 

 name sorsconi. 



Type localities and number and sexes of types: Ilolotype 3 , Maine, July ; 

 Allotype 9, New York; 2 $ Paratypcs, New York. 



Catocala sheba Cassino. 



1919, Cassino, The Lepidopterist, III, 99, Catocala. 



Described from "Type S and 9 , 8 S , 7 9 paratypes from Jemez 

 Springs. N. Alex. The presumaljle types are in the Barnes Collection, 

 Mr. Cassino having given Dr. Barnes a S and 9 type from Jemez 

 Springs. N. Mex., exactly corresponding to the original description 

 of sheba, but labeled another manuscript name, and informing the 

 junior author that these specimens were the true types of one of the 

 recent species, but that the actual name under which they had been 

 described was forgotten. 



