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ENTOMOLOGICAL NOTES. 
the rest of wing. Secondaries light yellow; marginal and mesial bands of ordinary width, the latter somewhat elbowed and does not reach 
to the abdominal margin by over an eighth of an inch ; fringes whitish-grey. Under surface pale yellow, primaries with a pale brownish 
or grey marginal band darkest inwardly ; mesial band widest in the middle and terminates at both costa and interior margin in a point ; 
no sub-basal band, only a faint grey spot midway between costa and interior margin; fringe white, edged outwardly with pale brown. 
Secondaries have a pale grey marginal band, palest anteriorly where it is lost in the ground color of wing, a brown mesial band strongly 
elbowed; fringe white. 
For the knowledge of this beautifnl species I am indebted to Dr. G. M. Levette, of the Indiana Geological Survey, a most ardent ad- 
mirer of nature, who captured it in the grove near the State House, in Indianapolis. I have also since seen examples sent from Texas, in 
the Cambridge Museum. 
Catocala Aspasia, nov. sp. 
Expands 4 to 4^ inches. Head and body brownish grey. Upper surface, primaries greyish brown, having much the general appear- 
ance, in colour and markings, of the darker examples of Amatrix. Secondaries scarlet, with black marginal and mesial bands. This 
species vies in size, though not in beauty, with Marviorata, and looks, at a casual glance, not unlike a gigantic edition of Amatrix. 
Received with a number of other things from Lower California; it also occurs iu Texas. 
May, 1874. 
Dr. Herman Behr lately had the kindness to send me the types of his following unpublished Californian species: 
Dryobota Californtca, Behr, Mss. 
Size and general appearance of D. Protea, Bkh., but the primaries are more ash-grey and devoid of the greenish cast of that species. 
Secondaries white, with taint mesial line and discal spot. 
T..ENIOCAMPA Pavi.k, Behr, Mss. 
A trifle smaller than T. Gracilis, F., which it otherwise closely resemb'es; the most marked differences are in the sub-marginal line 
of primaries which is more uneven, in the presence of a pale transverse line running from the reniform to the interior margin, and in most 
examples the prevalence of a more reddish cast of colour throughout the upper surface of primaries. 
Cosmia Sambbci. Behr, Mss. 
Expands lj-l} inch. Upper surface primaries very pale greenish yellow, in some specimens very pale cinnamon colour, transverse 
posterior and anterior and discal spot a darker shade of the ground colour, between the two lines a transverse shade of same colour, broad- 
est and darkest at costa, which it reaches by crossing the transverse posterior line, which towards the costa gives an abrupt bend inwards. 
Secondaries white. Head and body same colour as primaries. 
Cucullia Solpdaginis, Behr, Mss. 
Expands If — 2 inches. Head and tegulse ashen, thorax between the latter dark brown, abdomen dark grey with a brown dorsal line. 
Primaries grey, the median space suffused with darker colour, which in one example extends to the base; it comes nearer in the markings 
to Laclucce, Esp., hut is entirely distinct from that or any other species known of. Secondaries smoky. 
Cuculi.ia Matricaria:, Behr, Mss. 
Expands 1 A — 1^ inch. Head and body grey, latter with a dark dorsal line. Primaries uniform pale ashen, ihe tine dark lines are all 
abbreviated and have the appearance of being heavier than in any other known species, and gives the whole wring a spotted rather than 
striped appearance, entirely different from its allies. Secondaries white, edged exteriorly with a fine brown line. In both this and the pre- 
ceding the wings are a little broader in proportion to their length than in the eastern species. 
Plusia Echustocystidis, Behr, Mss. 
Size of Precationis. Plead and thorax dark greyish brown ; abdomen pale brown. Primaries dull dark greyish brown, which on 
close inspection proves to be intricately varied and shaded ; a silver mark much like a U, attached to the lower part of which is a small 
round or oval silver spot. Fringe same colour as rest of wing. Secondaries smoky, outer half darkest ; fringe white. 
Plusia Gamma, Linn was, Syst. Nat., X. 513, (1758). 
Thirteen examples agreeing in every respect with those from various parts of Europe. 
May, 1874. 
