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CATOCALA JUDITH. 
Secondaries black, with black fringes. 
Under surface ; primaries, a small white basal patch ; the black bands are so nearly confluent as to leave 
but little white. 
Secondaries, basal third white, rest black with but faint indications of the pale space between the mar- 
ginal and mesial bands. 
Described from two examples, 9 , in the collection of Mr. James Angus, of West Farms, New York, 
near which place they were captured several years since. 
CATOCALA AMESTRIS. my. Bv. 
(PLATE XI, FIG. 6, tf.) 
Expands 2 inches. 
Head and thorax, above, ash grey ; abdomen yellow. Beneath, dirty white. 
Upper surface; primaries ashen, transverse anterior, double and from middle to costa very heavy, form- 
ing a diagonal black bar ; transverse posterior, fine but distinct ; reniform moderate size, the space between 
this and transverse anterior line is much paler than the rest of the wing ; fringes concolourous with the wings. 
Secondaries bright yellow ; marginal band moderate, broken towards the anal angle where it is replaced 
by a spot; mesial band rather narrow and does not reach to the abdominal margin; fringes white. 
Under surface yellow ; sub-basal and marginal bands brownish ; mesial bands darker and better defined 
at their edges. 
Habitat. Texas. One example from Mr. J. Boll. 
Resembles the Russian C. Neonympha * more than any American species. 
CATOCALA DELILAH. Nov. Sp. 
(PLATE XI, FIG. 7, 9.) 
Expands 2 ^ inches. 
Head and thorax brown ; abdomen greyish brown. Beneath, yellowish. 
Upper surface; primaries rich velvety brown ; transverse anterior line very heavy and dark, from the 
middle of this to the base runs a dark shade; transverse posterior dark brown or black, and distinct ; sub- 
terminal pale fawn-coloured, edged outwardly with dark brown, where it is prolonged into acute parallel teeth 
which reach to the exterior margin, the three upper ones being the most prominent; reniform and sub-reniform 
forming, as it were, one spot, the latter entirely disconnected from the transverse posterior line; fringe brown. 
Secondaries dark warm yellow ; marginal band broad ; mesial almost straight from costa to where it 
elbows towards the lower part of wing; apex yellow; fringe yellow, with some greyish at the terminations of 
veins! 
Under surface dark yellow, even coloured ; sub-basal band of primaries not as dark coloured as other two 
bands, which are more sharply defined and comparatively narrow. 
Habitat. Texas ; received from Mr. J. Boll. 
CATOCALA AHOLAH. Nov. Sp. 
(PLATE XI, FIG. 8, ?.) 
Expands 1| inches. 
Head and thorax ash grey; abdomen yellowish. Beneath, whitish. 
Upper surface ; primaries ashen, even coloured ; transverse anterior and posterior lines fine but distinct, 
the latter but little dentated ; reniform large, greenish white, extending from this to the apex is a dark brown 
dash or shade, the edge of which towards the costa is sharply defined on the pale ground color of wings, whilst 
*Esper, Schmett., 198, 1, 2, (1796). 
