22 NOCTuiDJi;. 



from eosta fo beyond lower angle of cell, the terminal area broadly 

 blackish. 



Hah. U.S.A., Eastern, Middle, and Central States, Connecticut, 

 East 11. {Bly), 1 c^ . Exp. Iz millim. 



7139. Catabapta vidua. (Plate CXCII. fig. 10.) 



Phalcsna vidua, Smith & Abbot, Ins. Georgia, ii. p. 181, pi. 91 (1797); 



Smiih, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 351. 

 CdtOcaia desperata, Guen. Noct. iii. p. 95 (1852); Streck. Lep. Rbop. & 

 Het. p. 33, pi. V. f. 2. 

 Head and thorax grey mi.Ked with dark brown ; palpi white at 

 base, the extremity of 2nd joint and sides of frons dark brown ; 

 tegulfe with blackish line near tips which are white ; prothoracic 

 crest dark brown tipped with white ; patagia with blackish streak 

 on outer edge; pectus white; legs white irrorated with brown, the 

 fore tibige at extremity and mid tibiae at middle with black bands, 

 the tarsi banded black and white ; abdoillen greyish brown, the 

 ventral surface brownish white. Fore wing pale grey tinged in 

 parts with red-brown and irrorated with black-brown ; a diffused 

 black-brown fascia in submedian interspace from base to sub- 

 terminal line ; subbasal line fine, black, sinuous, from costa to 

 submedian fold ; antemedial line double, black-brown filled in with 

 grey, the outer line strong from costa to submedian fold, angled 

 outwards below costa, then oblique, sinuous ; feniform whitish 

 defined by black-brown and its centre by dark brown, large and 

 irregularly elliptical : a diffused oblique black-brdwn shade from 

 middle of costa to subterminal line below vein 5 where it is met by 

 an oblique irregular black-brown fascia from termen below apex ; 

 a pale obliqud pear-shaped spot defined by black below end of cell, 

 formed by a sinus of the postmedial line, which is black slightly 

 defined on outer side by whitish, bent outwards below costa, then 

 oblique and sinuous, acutely angled outwards above and below 

 vein 5, then dentate, at vein 2 forming the sihus below end of cell, 

 then strongly angled outwards at submedian fold and inwards at 

 vein 1, a black streak from it to the subterminal line in submedian 

 fold ; subterminal line whitish defined on outer side by brown, 

 dentate, oblique from costa to below vein 6 ; a series of blackish 

 points before termen defined on outer side by white. Hind wing 

 black-brown with some greyish hair at base ; cilia pure white. 

 Underside of fore wing blaCk-brown, the termen greyish expanding 

 towards apex which is whitish, the base whitish, an oblique whitish 

 medial patch from subcostal nervure to vein 2, postm( dial band 

 white, oblique from costa to vein 4 and obsolescent towards inner 

 margin, cilia white, brownish at tips ; hind wing with the basal and 

 inner areas whitish suffused with brown, the rest of wing black- 

 brown, postmedial band white, oblique and sinuous from costa to 

 vein 4 and ending on inner margin just above tornus. 



Hah. Canada ; U.S.A., Eastern, Central, and Southern States, 

 Kew York, 2 c? , 2 $ , Florida. Exj). 84-96 millim. 



