CATQCALA TRISTIS. Edwards, 
PROC. ENT. SOC. PHIL. YOL. II, p. 511. (1864.) 
( PLATE III, FIG. 1 cf ) 
Expands 1^ inches. 
Head and thorax light grey; abdomen above dark brown ; beneath white. 
Primaries, from exterior margin to the undulate band, greyish with darker shades ; 
from thence to transverse posterior line white ; the space interior of this to the base, with the 
exception of the white open sub-reniform, is light grey ; reniform dark brown; joining the 
sub-reniform 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 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. Hew York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Rhode 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, GrOENEE IN APPENDIX. 
CATOCALA VIDUA. GUENEE, SPEC. GEN. YOL. VIII, p. 94. 
( PLATE III, FIG. 2 $ ) 
Expands 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 obliquely upwards to the costa ; transverse posterior line black, ac- 
companied outwardly by a brown band which is in turn succeeded by the grey undulate sub- 
marginal band ; reniform distinct and brown ; fringes grey. 
Secondaries black ; white fringes middle of which are penciled with black ; basal Pairs, 
heavy and greyish. 
Under surface white, on primaries the transverse bands are confluent along the interior 
margin. 
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