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NEW SPECIES, VARIETIES, &c. 
Catocala Stbetchii, Bein'. The several examples of what I am almost certain is this species I have not been able to compare 
with the unique type in the coll, of Dr. Behr in San Francisco, but I have received from that savan a beautifully coloured figure made 
by Stretch from the type; with this figure these Arizona examples agree except that in them the mesial band of secondaries is narrower 
and some of the red ground colour extends beyond the outer edge of the black submarginal band ; there is also some difference in the 
red colour, that on the figure being a little darker, but I scarce think I am wrong in deciding these Arizona examples as Stretchii. Dr. 
BehPs type was taken by Mr. Stretch in Nevada and was described in Trans. Am. Ent. Soc., Ill, p. 24, (1870). 
Besides the above and the rare species to be described and illustrated in succeeding pages were received Papilio Daunus* Colias 
Edwardsii,-f Anth. Creusa,% Julia, \ Lycaena Oro,\\ Heteronea,^ Zeroe,** Theda Crysalus,ff Niphon var. Eryphon,%% Acadica,$$ Apodemia 
Mormo,\\\\ Argyn. Nokomis,\ f^j Aphrodite,*** Hesperis, tft Edwardsii, JJJ et var. Nevadensis,$$% Cbroms,|||||| Myrina,\ Iff Melitaea Palla var. 
Whiineyi **** jff Satyrvs Nephde tar. Ariave,%%%X Pamphila Oltoe,%%$$ Lita Nexsi$wata,|||||||| Syneda Slocm, 13131113 Adum- 
brata ***** Uowlandii, ff-ffi Goiytodes Trilinearia,XtttX an< i sundry others which time has not yet enabled me to examine fully. 
The following descriptions of New Lepidoptera are from examples captured by Mr. J. Boll, mostly in the 
vicinity of New Braunfels and San Antonia, Southwestern Texas : 
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Melitaea Imitata, n. sp. <T expands 1 inch. Wings narrower and more elongate proportionally than in M. Vesta which is 
probably its nearest ally. Upper surface much as in Vesta but the blackish markings especially of secondaries much heavier; in the 
primaries there is no notable difference, but the secondaries have a broad marginal black border comprising fully the outer third of the 
wing ; within this border are two rows of fulvous crescents, those of the outermost one being the smaller. The under surface is peculiar, 
resembling much that of M. Harrisii both in style and colouration. The inner half of primaries is paler fulvous than above; the outer 
margin has a narrow darker fulvous band, interior to this is a broad black band, irregular on its inner edge and broadest at costa; 
within this band are two rows of crescents of various sizes ; the outermost row is pale yellow, the other fulvous; this black marginal 
band is succeeded inwardly at some distance by a very irregular narrow band or line of unequal width which extends from costa to 
inner margin; between this latter band and the base of wing are several black lines of the usual style; fringes black cut with white 
between the veins. Secondaries, outer margin narrowly fulvous as in primaries, thence one-third of the wing is black ; within this 
latter colour towards outer margin is a row of pale yellow lunules, the ones nearest to apex and anal angles small, the others large and 
with the exception of the third from anal angle, which is the greatest, much of the same size. This broad black submarginal space or 
band is succeeded by an irregular pale yellow mesial band divided transversely by a black line and bordered inwardly by another; 
the rest of wing interior to this is fulvous, having a yellow spot in discoidal cell; between this spot and the base is an irregular yellow 
band lined on both edges with black also a yellow band lined with black at base. Body black or blackish brown above, below pale 
yellow ; antennae black ringed with white. 
9 a little larger and with the black markings not quite as heavy. 
Melitaea Larunda, n. sp. Expands 1J inches. Wings even more elongate than in the preceding. Upper surface fulvous, 
not dark. Fringes whitish, grey at terminations of nervules. A fuscous band on exterior margin of all wings; this band is almost 
entirely occupied with lunules of the same colour as ground of wings; on the primaries three of these lunules nearest to the inner angle 
are largest and nearly of equal size, the remaining four are smaller and the one nearest to apex is a mere dot. On secondaries the 
lunules nearest apex and anal angle are the smallest, the others do not differ much in size. Interior to these marginal lunules on 
primaries are two irregular partly obselete black lines extending from costa to inner margin, heaviest near costa ; in the discoidal cell 
and at basal part are some more irregular blackish lines. On basal half of secondaries a few faint abbreviated wavy lines. Under 
surface; primaries much the same colour as above ; a narrow darker fulvous band on exterior margin succeeded inwardly by a row 
of lunules; the first six from costa are pale yellow edged with blackish, the remaining two at inner angle are fulvous and merged into 
the narrow margin of same colour; at some distance interior to this row of lunules is a blackish line heaviest at costa and not 
reaching quite to the interior margin ; five other abbreviated lines extend from costa inwards to the median nervure. Secondaries 
fulvous with a marginal row of seven pale yellow lunules, the ones nearest apex and anal angle are the smallest, the third one from 
anal angle the largest, and the other four are nearly of equal size; an irregular pale yellow mesial band lined inwardly with black 
and divided through the middle by a black line and further at the costal third by another black line; a pale yellow spot in the dis- 
coidal cell, between which and the base an irregular pale yellow band edged with black extends from costa to inner margin ; at base 
of wing also a narrow yellow band edged outwardly with black. Fringe white with grey at terminations of nervules. 
In spite of its diminutiveness this little species, which is one of the most remarkable yet discovered in this country, brings 
strongly to mind certain species of Acraea such as Viola;, Fab., and Rahira, Bdl. 
Libythea Larvata, n. sp. rj' size and shape of Paehmani; the black and fulvous colours of upper surface arranged nearly 
the same as in that species, but the shape and colour of the subapical spots and bars are different; these are washed with fulvous in the 
present species whilst in Paehmani they are pure white; in the latter the white discal bar is on both surfaces entirely disconnected and 
distant from the white spot near the middle of exterior margin, neither is it in a line with it; the present species differs entirely there- 
from in the arrangement of these spots, as follows: besides the subapical one, which is quite small, an interrupted band composed of 
three spots extends from middle of costa nearly to the middle of exterior margin ; the first of these spots is small and is on the costal 
nervure, the second which does not quite join it is large and at its lower point nearest outer margin is joined by innermost angle, near- 
est costa, of the last spot which is square. Under surface, primaries have the chain of three spots nearly as above but a little larger and 
*P. Daunus, Bdl., Sp. Gen. I, p. 342, (1836). f C. Edwardsii, Behr, Edwds.’ Butt. N. Am. I, t. 6, Col. (1870). %Anth. Creusa, 
Dbldy.-Hew., Gen. Diur. Lep., p. 56, t. 7, (1847). $ Anth . Julia, W. H. Edwds., Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. IV, p. 61, (1872). II Lye. Oro 
Scud., Can. Ent, VIII, p. 23, (1876). If Lyc . Heteronea, Bdl., Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., 2me Ser. X, p. 298, (1852). **Lyc. Zeroe, Bdl., Lep. Cal.’ 
p. 45, (1869.) ff Thecla Grysalus, W. H. Edwds., Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. IV, p. 344, (1873). j %Th. Eryphon, Bdl., Ann. Soc. Ent, Fr., 
2me Ser. X, p. 289, (1852). g|2A. Acadica, W. H. Edwds., Proc. Acad. Nat, Sc. Phil., p. 55,(1862). ||||^p. Mormo, Feld,, Wien. 
Ent. Mon. Ill, p. 271, (1859). %%Arg. Nokomis, W. H. Edwds., Proc. Acad. Nat. Sc. Phil., p. 221, (1862). ***Arg. Aphrodite, Fabr., 
Mant, Ins. II, p. 62, (1787). ftf Arg. Hesperis, W. H. Edwds., Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. II, p. 502, (1864). %%%Arg. Edwardsii, Beak., 1. c. 
VI, p, 137, (1866). %MArg. Nevadensis, W. H. Edwds., Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. Ill, p. 14, (1870). |j||||A?-y. Coronis, Behr, Proc. Cal. 
Acad. Sc. II, p. 173, (1858-1862). DKlfHrg. Myrina, Cram., Pap. Ex. II, t. 189, (1779). ****Mel. Whitneyi, Behr, Proc. Cal. Acad. 
Sc. Ill, p. 88, (1863). ttftJf. Nubigena, Behr, 1. c. p. 91. JJ USatyrus Ariane, Bdl., Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., 2me Ser. X, p. 307, (1852). 
QfyMPamphila Ottoe, W. H. Edwds., Proc. Ent. Soc. VI, p. 207,(1867). ||||)|||_Lffo Sexsignata, Harvey, Buff) Bull. II, p. 280, (1875). 
Soda, Behr, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. Ill, p. 27,(1870). *****S. Adumbrala, Behr, 1. c. tftftX. How'andii. Grote, Proc. 
Ent. Soc. Phil. Ill, p. 533, t. VI, (1864). itti+Gorytodes Tmlinearia, Pack., Hayden’s Geo. Survey, X, p. 202, t. IX, f. 33, (1876). 
