GRAPTA IV. 



GRAPTA INTERROGATIONIS. 



Graptn Interrogationis, Fabricius. 

 Var. Umhrosa, Lintner, Trans. Am. Ent. Soe. 1860, p. 313; 1870, p. 197. 



Inlerrof/ationis, Fabr. 9 , Suppl. p. 424. Godart, Enc. Meth. IX, p. 302. Harris, Ins. Mass. Ed. 



1852, p. 298, (text, not plate.) 

 Caureum, Cramer, I , pi. 19. Fab. % , Sp. Ins. p. 94 ; Ent. Syst. p. 78. Abbot & Smith, % . 

 Ins. Ga. pi. 11. Hiibner, Exot. Schmett. II, ^ ? . Bois. & Loc. % , pi. 51. 

 Var. Fabricii, Edwards, Trans. Am. Ent. Sue. 1870, p. 5. 



Intei-rogationis, Harris, $ , Ins. Mass. Ed. 1852, plate. Lintner, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. 1869, p. 

 315,1870, p. 197. 



INTERROGATIONIS, var. UMBROSA. 



Form alike in both sexe.s, primaries slightly falcated, little excised; tail prom- 

 inent, broad at base, tapering; anal angle slightly or not at all ]iroduced. 



Male. Esjiauds 2.G inches. 



Upper side fulvous, marked and spotted with black; primaries have a broad, 

 black marginal border, somewhat suffused with ferruginous at the upper part of the 

 incision on hind margin and next inner angle; upon the disk five rounded sjDots 

 disposed in a right angle, the two smallest being in cell and the others in the in- 

 terspaces; between the lower two of these last, transverse to them, two small spots 

 or j^atches of scales; another in lower discoidal interspace, and a large subquadrate 

 spot from the costa covering the arc; next the marginal border on costa a large 

 patch suffused witli ferruginous and a smaller one on inner margin. Secondaries 

 have the outer two-thirds overlaid with black, mast dense behind the cell, but 

 towards outer angle and on disk showing the fulvous sub-color, into which the 

 black shade gradually fades and disap^aears towards base; on costal margin a deep 

 black duplex spot, and a small s^jot on arc ; tail ashy-grey, marginal border lightly 

 touched with same hue, and sometimes the tips of the nervules on primaries; 

 fringes white in the emarginations, fuscous at the nervules. 



Under side variegated with ferruginous, brown, olivaceous and more or less 

 sufiused with purple; the basal third limited by an irregular ferruginous, j^artly 

 olivaceous band, within which the ground is yellow-brown streaked with ferrugi- 

 nous; outside the band, primaries have a narrow belt of yellow-brown, beyond 

 which the colors are brown and olivaceous; a lilac patch near inner angle, and a 

 large sub-apical one on costa enclosing a patch of whitish ; secondaries olivaceous 



