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Genus XIX. GRAPTA Kirby. 



Kirby, Fauna Bor. Am. 292. (1837). 



Vanessa God*, fyc. 



POLYGONIA, EUGONIA, ffiibn. 



Head moderately broad, densely hair)', especially between the antennas. 



Eyes slightly oval, prominent, very hairy. 



Maxilla; scarcely so long as the thorax. 



Labial Palpi porrect, slightly ascending, projecting about half their length beyond the forehead, 

 rather divergent ; densely clothed with long scales, of which the lateral ones are rather broad, 

 the dorsal ones mostly hair-like ; the sides of the second joint furnished with some stiff hairs. 

 First joint two fifths the length of the second, subcylindric, much curved ; second joint 

 subcylindric, somewhat stoutest in the middle, truncate at the apex ; third joint about half the 

 length of the second, very elongate ovate, somewhat compressed laterally, slenderer than the 

 second joint. 



Antenna? moderately stout, about two thirds the length of the body, terminating in a rather short 

 gradually swollen club, which is slightly grooved below ; the apex obtusely pointed. 

 Thorax elongate oval, moderately stout, hairy. 



Anterior Wings subtriangular. Anterior margin more or less deeply emarginate near the 

 shoulder, thence nearly straight to the apex, where it is gradually curved ; apex truncate. 

 Outer margin about two thirds the length of the anterior, deeply and sometimes almost 

 semicircularly emarginate, produced into a tooth at each end of the emargination. Inner 

 margin rather longer than the outer, deeply emarginate. Costal nervure stout, extending to the 

 middle of the corta. Subcostal nervure slender, throwing off its first and second nervules close 

 together near the end of the cell ; its third at about three fourths the distance from the base ; 

 its fourth nearer to the third than to the apex ; the third nervulc ending close to the apex of the 

 wing. Upper and middle disco-cellular nervules nearly wanting. Lower disco-cellular nervule 

 quite atrophied, its place merely indicated by a faint line. Internal nervure wanting. 



Posterior Wings caudate or subcaudate, dentate. Inner margin the longest. Anterior margin sinuate, 

 emarginate ; the apex deeply emarginate. Outer margin dentate, caudate or subcaudate ; the 

 greatest prolongation being on the third median nervule ; anal angle produced. Precostal 

 nervide simple. Discoidal nervule separating from the second subcostal soon after its origin. 

 Lower disco-cellular nervule entirely atrophied, its place indicated by a faint line. 



