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CATOCALA TRISTIS. Edwards. 

 PROC. EXT. SOC. PHIL. VOL. II, p. 'A\. (1864.) 



( PLATE HI, FIG. 1 ^ \ 



Expand-s \\ inclies. 



Head and tliorax light grcv ; abdomen above dark brown ; benoatli wliite. 



Primaries, from exterior margin to the undulate band, greyish with darker shade.? ; 

 from thence to transverse posterior line white; the space interior of this to the base, with the 

 exception of the wiiite open sub-reniform, is hglit grey; reniforni dark brown ; joining the 

 sub-reniform on inside is a very distinct bhiek spot; another is on edge of costa at termination 

 of the transverse anterior line: whole inner edge of wings .shaded with black to about one- 

 fourth their width. 



Secondaries black, outer angle tipped with white. 



Under surface, primaries black, outer angle white, a broad white sub-marginal band. 



Secondaries black with white edge at outer angle as on upper side. 



Habitat. New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ehode Island. 



For the original of my figure I am indebted to Mrs. Bridgham, who collected several 

 examples near Providence, Rhode Island. The smallest and rarest of all our known black 

 winged species. 



CATOCALA VIDUATA, Glenee in ArrENrnx 

 CATOCALA VIDUA. GUENEE, SPEC. GEN. VOL. VIII, p. 94. 



( PLATE III, FIG. 2 9 ) 



Expands 3i inches. 



Head and thorax grey ; collar banded witli chestnut; abdomen greyish brown ; beneath 

 white. 



Upper surface, primaries ashen with brown shadings and powdered with black atoms ; 

 a conspicuous black arc sweeps from the sub-apical dash, which forms a part of it, downwards 

 to the reniform, thence obliquely upwards to the co.3ta; transver.se posterior line black, ac- 

 companied outv.ardly by a brown band which is in turn succeeded ])y the grey undulate sub- 

 marginal band ; reniform distinct and brown ; fringes grey. 



Secondaries black ; white fringes middle of which are jjcnciled with black; basal hair.s, 

 heavy and greyish. 



Under surface white, on primaries tlic transverse bands are conrtucnt along the interior 



