1864.] 
509 
white; sub-marginal spots blackish; reniform dark brown, with a white 
patch adjoining its inner side; sub-reniform pale brown; a curved 
blackish stripe extends from the costa, at one-third the distance from 
the base, to the hind margin a little below the apex; fringe light-grey. 
Secondaries rosy-red; median band of moderate width, much con¬ 
tracted at the middle, abruptly narrowing to the width of a line near 
the abdominal margin, which it does not quite reach ; border broad, 
sinuous towards the anal angle; apical spot white tinged with red at 
the edge of the border; fringe white. 
On the under side of secondaries, the red shade occupies about two- 
thirds the wing from the abdominal margin. 
From Yreka, California. 
Oatocala Californica, nov. sp. 
Expands inches. Primaries dark brown with a grey tinge; the 
transverse lines rather indistinct; the elbowed line with two teeth 
equally prominent, and otherwise resembling marmorata ; beyond this 
a brown band bordered by a faint, serrated, greyish line, which is edged 
without by black; reniform black; sub-reniform brown. 
Secondaries rosy-red, nearly the same shade as in marmorata ; me¬ 
dian band narrow, almost straight, contracted in the middle and termi¬ 
nating abruptly two lines before the margin; border somewhat sinuous 
towards the anal angle; apical spot white tinged with reddish; fringe 
long and white. 
On the under side of secondaries the red shade occupies f the wing. 
From Yreka, California. 
Catooala Walshii, nov. sp. 
Male. Expands three inches. Primaries yellowish brown, clouded 
between the transverse lines with grey ; markings indistinct, but simi¬ 
lar to Unijuga., Walker; reniform ferruginous in a paler circlet. 
Secondaries dull red; median narrow, almost straight, twice exca¬ 
vated slightly on the outer side, bending at a right angle and terminat¬ 
ing squarely just after the bend; border narrow, deeply excavated, 
almost to the margin between the fourth inferior and sub-median ner- 
vure, and again after the sub-median; apical spot luteous, as are also 
the emarginations. Under side as in Unijuga. 
Taken by Mr. B. B. Walsh in Southern Illinois. 
This species resembles remarkably Eloeata of Europe, in color, in- 
