GEAPTOLITHA. 



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with brown ; the underside with small discoidal lunula and 

 indistinct curved postraedial line. 



Hah. Canada; U.S.A., Maine, New York, Centre {Hill), 1 S ^ 

 1 2 . Exp. 40 millira. 



2414. Graptolitha furcifera. 



Nuctua furcifera, Hiifn. Berl. Ent. Mag. iii. p. 402 (1767) ; Staud. Gat. 



Lep. pal. p. 210. 

 Noctua coiiformis, Schiff. Wien. Verz. p. 76 (1776); Hiibn. Eur. Scbmett., 



Noct. f. 243 ; Dup. Lep. Fr. vii. p. 182, pi. 112. f. 2. 

 Noctua bifurca, Esp. Schinett. iv. pi. 131. f. 1 (1788). 

 Xylina suffusa, Tiitt, Brit. Noct. iii. p. 104 (1892). 



Head and thorax grey mixed with brown or deep red-brown ; 

 frons with black bar ; tegulfe with brown line defined by white 

 behind near tips ; patagia with dark streak on outer edges ; tibiae 

 with dark streaks ; abdomen grey suffused with purple-brown. 







Fig. 81. — GraptoliiJia furcifera, (^ . \. 



Fore wing silvery grey more or less strongly suffused and irrorated 

 with reddish brown ; a sinuous black streak below base of cell 

 defined by whitish above ; subbasal line angled outwards below 

 costa and ending at submedian fold ; antemedial line indistinctly 

 double, waved ; claviforra defined by black, incompletely above, 



. a black streak in submedian fold from it to postmedial line ; 

 orbicular indistinctly defined by brown, oblique elliptical ; reniform 

 very large, its centre tinged with blood-red, and with grey annulus 

 defined by brown and with curved black mark below, somewhat 

 angled inwards on median nervure ; a diffused brown medial shade, 

 oblique from cosf.a to below cell, then angled inwards in submedian 

 fold ; postmedial line dentate, bent outwards below costa, incurved 

 below vein 4 and confluent with lower edge of reniform ; sub- 

 terminal line brown, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at 

 middle. Hind wing whitish tinged with reddish brown, especially 

 on terminal area ; the underside pale, the costal and terminal areas 

 irrorated with purplish red, a discoidal spot and curved somewhat 

 sinuous postmedial line. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing pale grey with hardly any brown suffusion. 

 Ab. 2. suffusa. Much darker, the fore wing strongly suffused 



'■ with dark brown. 



