AMERICAN LEPIDOPTERA. 17 



one of grey jireen; apex clear olivaceous limited below by a ferrugi- 

 nous stripe following the nervule to the margin; on secondaries a fer- 

 ruginous, sub-apical patch and a curved stripe as in Comma, but not 

 distinct, owing to the dark ground color; a common submarginal row 

 of black points as in the allied species; incision of primaries and hind 

 margin of secondaries bordered by olive green lunules ; silver mark an 

 arc of a circle, thickened at upper end, barbed at lower end. 



Body above fulvous, beneath grey vinous; legs buff; palpi buff 

 below, fulvous above and at tip; antennae fuscous above, ochraceous 

 below; club black, fulvous at tip. 



Female. Same size. Primaries less incised, tail short, narrow ; den- 

 tations le?s prominent; marked on upper side as the male; under side 

 brown and grey brown, densely streaked with ferruginous; the basal 

 space of nearly uniform color ; the discal band only indicated by the 

 outer black line; extra basal space to margin a shade paler, of uniform 

 color; submarginal black points distinct; the white patch wanting ex- 

 cept on the edge of costa ; incision of primaries darker, wanting the 

 green spots; silver mark larger, less arched, slight and without barb. 



From 1 S , I 9 , from California. From the collection of T. Rea- 

 kirt, Esq. 



Grapta Dryas, n. sp. 



Allied to Comma, especially in markings of under surface of male ; 

 primaries less falcated, less incised. 



Male. FiXpands about 2.3 inches. Upper side yellow fulvous, 

 marked with black and ferruginous as in Comma and Interrogationis ; 

 secondaries almost wholly black, as in the latter species, the black 

 shade gradually passing into fulvous near base; three fulvous submar- 

 ginal points or spots at outer angle; a black patch on costa and spot 

 in cell, in some cases. only distinguished by a deeper shade than the 

 ground color; fringes white in the cmarginations, fuscous at tips of 

 nervules. 



Under side marbled in shades of grey, brown, ferruginous, olivace- 

 ous and honey yellow ; faintly suffused with lilaceous near base and on 

 costa of primaries, and throughout densely covered with fine, abbrevia- 

 ted streaks of ferruginous ; the basal space presenting shades of greyish 

 brown, limited without by an irregular deep brown or ferruginous com- 

 mon discal band; in cell three distinct dark brown spots; the extra 

 basal space lilaceous on primaries, and the same in secondaries but 

 mixed with yellow; beyond, to margins, primaries are partly honey 



TRASS. AMEH. ENT. SOC. (3) JANUARY, 1870. 



