200 KOCTVIDJE. 



defined l>clow by curved black streuke, the former oblique V-sIiapcd, 

 open above, the latter constricted at middle and wlightly angled 

 inwards on nu'diaii nervuro ; a diflused nudial line oblicjue from costa 

 to vt'in U and angled iuwanb in snbnifilian fold; |to>tnudial lino 

 flight, defined by grey on inner side, dentate, bent outwards below 

 costa and oldique below vein 4, angled outwards in discal fold, 

 inwards on vein '2 and very strongly inwards in submedian fold; 

 bublcrminal line grey defined liy dark brown on outer side near 

 diacal and submedian folds, dentate, angled inwards to the post- 

 medial line at discal and submedian folds. Hind wing red-brown, 

 the cilia pale purplish red ; the underside i)urplish red irroratcd 

 with brown, a small discoidal spot and curved postmedial line. 



Ab. 1. soviitintlosci. Fore wing less distinctly marked. 



Ab. 'J. ztiiceni. Fore wing more variegated and marked with 

 white. 



JJab. Caxada ; U.S.A., Maine, Massachusetts, Newton (TJuuvter), 

 4 d 1 - $ » type thaxttri, New York, 1 J , 1 $ ; Ekitaix ; Belgiuii ; 

 (JERMAXV, Leech Coll. : Acstkxa ; Switzerland ; Iceland, Leech 

 foil. ; Scandinavia ; Finland, Leech Coll. ; Hussia, St. Petersburg, 

 ZoUer and Frey Colls.; E. Siberia, Amurland. Kiy. 42-46 

 millim. 



Ldrva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 52 ; Barrett, Lep. Brit. vi. p. 36. pi. 235. f. 4. 



Bluish green with the lines white ; spiracles yellowish edged 

 with brown ; ventral surface and feet pale green ; head and 

 (crvical shield pale yellow-brown, or blue-green irroratcd with 

 white ; dorsal and subdorsal lines white ; a lateral yellow strij)e 

 with the black-edged white spiracles on it. Food-plant, Mi/rica. G. 



2413. Graptolitha lepida. (Plate CII. fig. 16.) 



Xylina lepida, Lint. Ent. Cent. iv. p. 95 (1878); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. 

 Am. p. 230. 



Head and thorax dark brown mixed with grey-white ; frons 

 Avith dark Itar ; tegulte with blackish medial line defined l)y white 

 above ; putagia with whitish outer edge ; abdomen purplish red- 

 brown irrorated with grey. Fore wing violaceous grey suffused 

 and irrorated with fuscous ; some purplish at base of inner margin ; 

 a slight black streak below base of cell ; subbasal line double filled 

 in with grey, strongly angled inwards on subcostal nervure and 

 ending at submedian fold ; antemcdial lino defined by grey on inner 

 side, angled inwards on the veins ; claviform absent ; orbicular and 

 reniform large with grey aunuli defined by black, the former 

 oblique elliptical, the latter constricted at middle and angled 

 inwards on median nervure ; a dift'used medial shade ; postmedial 

 lino defined by grey on outer side, irregularly dentate, bent out- 

 wards below costa, incurved below vein 4 and angled inwards in 

 submedian fold almost to the antemedial line ; subterminnl linb 

 tbrmed of blackish lunules, angled outwards at vein 7 and slightly 

 dentate at veins 4, '6. Hind wing pale purplish })ink irrorated 



