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strongly angled outwards in the interspaces and inwards to white 

 points on the veins ; claviform small, defined by ochreous and 

 brown ; orbicular and renitbrm whitish, their centres tinged with 

 brown, the former very oblique, produced to a point below, some- 

 times conHueut with the latter, which is constricted at middle and 

 angled inwards on median nervure ; a medial striga from costa ; 

 postmedial line double at costa, strongly bent outwards below costa, 

 then highly dentate and produced to black and white points on the 

 veins, oblique below vein 4, and angled inwards in submedian 

 fold ; subterminal line represented by small ochreous-grey V-shaped 

 marks defined on inner side by dentate rufous marks, angled out- 

 wards at vein 7 and dentate at veins 4, 3 ; the veins of terminal 

 area streaked with black, a terminal series of black points. Hind 

 wing dark reddish brown, the cilia pale at tips ; the underside 

 whitish tinged with purplish pink and irrorated with brown, a 

 discoidal spot and irregularly dentate postmedial line. 



Hah. Canada, Ontario, Orillia {Norman), 2 J ; U.S.A., Maine, 

 New York, 1^,3$ type. Exp. 44-48 millim. 



*2405. Graptolitha gausapata. 



Lithophane gausapata, Grote, Papilio, iii. p. 77 (1883) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. 

 N. Am. p. 227. 



Dull purple-red ; frontal tuft slightly darker below ; abdomen 

 dull red. Fore wing slightly suffused with grey ; tlie ante- and 

 postmedial lines brown, oblique towards costa, the former very 

 strongly angled outwards in submedian fold and defined by whitish 

 on outer side, connected with the latter by a slight brown streak ; 

 reniform represented by a rusty yellow stain. Hind wing dull red ; 

 the underside with brown discoidal spot. 



Hah. U.S.A., California, Soda Springs. Eocp. ? This species is 

 unknown to me. 



2406. Graptolitha petiilca. (Plate CII. fig. 13.) 



Lithophane pietulca, Grote, 6th Rep. Peab. Acad. Sci. p. 31 (1874) ; 

 Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 227. 



Head and thorax grey mixed with rufous ; palpi streaked with 

 black at sides ; frons with black bar ; tegulae with black line near 

 tips ; patagia Avith some black scales near upper edge ; tibiie 

 streaked with black ; abdomen rufous dorsally tinged with fuscous. 

 Fore wing whitish grey tinged with rufous ; a slight streak below 

 base of cell ; subbasal line represented by double oblique stri;^ from 

 costa ; antemedial line indistinctly double, strongly angled out- 

 wards in the interspaces and inwards to double black points on the 

 veins, in submedian fold connected with the postmedial line by a 

 slight fuscous streak ; orbicular and reniform with pale anniili 

 defined by brown, the former oblique, open above, its lower 

 extremity produced to a point, the latter constricted at middle and 



