GEAPTOLITHA, 265 



blackish line near tips ; abdomen grey, irrorated Avith fuscous. 

 Fore wing grey thickly irrorated and suffused with fuscous ; 

 fiubbasal line double, filled in with white, angled inwards in cell, 

 from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line double, filled in 

 with whitish, excurved in interspaces and angled inwards on the 

 veins ; claviform small, defined by black ; orbicular and reniform 

 defined by black, the former grey, oblique elliptical and conjoined 

 to an elliptical mark below cell, the latter somewhat constricted at 

 middle and angled inwards on median nervure ; a medial shade 

 angled at lower angle of cell ; postmedial line double, filled in with 

 wliitish, dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, 

 then incurved ; subterminal line indistinct, whitish, defined on 

 inner side by small dentate fuscous marks, angled outwards at 

 vein 7 and dentate at veins 4, 3 ; a terminal series of small black 

 lunules. Hind wing uniform yellowish brown, the cilia white at 

 tips ; the underside white irrorated with brown, a discoidal spot 

 and sinuous postmedial line. 



Hah. Canada ; U.S.A., X.E. States to Washington, D.C., and 

 west to jSTebraska, New York, Centre (Lintner), 4 cJ , 1 $ type, 

 Lewis Co. ( W. W. Hill), 2 J , 3 $ . Eccj). 46-50 millim. 



Larva. Head testaceous, reticulate with greenish. Body with 

 joint 12 enlarged, green ; dorsal, subdorsal, lateral, and substigmatal 

 lines white, rather broad, nearly equal. Tubercles white, elevated. 

 Feet green. Feeds on maple &c. — H. G. D. 



2420. Graptolitha laticinerea. (Plate CII. fig. 20.) 



Lithophane laiicimrca, Grote, Bull. BufF. Soc. Nat. Sci. ii. p. 27 (1874) ; 

 Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 229. 



Head and thorax fuscous, mixed with grey ; frons with dark 

 bar ; tegulae with black line near tips ; tarsi with pale rings ; 

 abdomen grey tinged with brown and thickly irrorated with 

 fuscous. Fore wing fuscous grey-brown irrorated with white ; 

 a sinuous black streak below* base of cell, defined by whitish above; 

 subbasal line represented by double black stria? from costa ; ante- 

 medial line indistinctly double, filled in with whitish, excurved in 

 the interspaces and angled inwards on the veins ; claviform small 

 or. moderate, defined by black ; orbicular and reniform with grey 

 annuli defined by black, the former oblique elliptical, conjoined to 

 an elliptical spot below cell, the latter somewhat constricted at 

 middle and angled inwards on median nervure sometimes to the 

 elliptical spot ; a slight curved medial shade ; postmedial line 

 defined by grey on outer side, minutely dentate, bent outwards 

 below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved; subterminal line 

 greyish defined on inner side by small dentate dark marks, angled 

 outn^ards at vein 7 and dentate at veins 4, 3 ; a terminal series of 

 slight dark lunules. Hind wing whitish, uniformly suffused with 

 reddish brown ; ciha white at tips ; the underside whitish irrorated 

 ■with brown ; a discoidal lunule and slightly sinuous postmedial line. 



