CATOCALA TllISTIS. Edwari.8, 



PROC. EXT. SOC. PHIL. VOL. II, p. oil. ( 18GI. 



( PLATE III, PIG. 1 J' ) 



Expands 1; iiiclics. 



Head and thorax liglit grey ; abdomen above dark brown ; beneatli wliite. 



Primaries, from exterior margin to tiie nndulato Ijand, grc_vish with darker shades ; 

 from thence to transverse posterior lino white ; tlie space interior of this to the base, witli the 

 exception of the white open sub-reniform, is light grey ; rcniform dark brown ; joining the 

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

 of the transverse anterior line ; whole inner edge of wings shaded witli black to about one- 

 fonrtli their widtli. 



Secondaries black, outer angle tipped witli white. 



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



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



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



For the original of my iigure 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, Guenee i.n aipendix ^ 



CATOCALA VIDUA. GUENEE, SPEC. GEN. VOL. ^'^I, p. 'Jl. 



( PLATE III, FIG. 2 ? ) 



Expands 3i inches. 



Head and thorax grey ; collar banded with 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 obliciuely upwards to the costa ; transverse posterior line black, ac- 

 companied outwardly by a brown band M'hich is in turn succeeded by the grey undulate sub- 

 marginal band ; reniform distinct and brown ; fringes grey. 



Secondaries black ; white fringes middle of which arc penciled with black ; basal hairs, 

 lieavy and greyish. 



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

 margin. 



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