GRAPTOLITHA. 277 



Hah. Canada, Ontario, Orillia (Norman), 1 c? type ; U.S.A., N. 

 & E. States, Maine, New York. Kvji. 50 millim. 



G. emarf/inata, vertina, ancilla, Jietclieri, and holocinerea are 

 probably all varieties of this species. 



2439. Graptolitha emarginata. (Plate CIII. fig. 6.) 



Xi/llna emarginata. Smith, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xxvii. p. 28 (1900); 

 Xvar, Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 171. 



$ . Head and thorax violaceous grey mixed with fuscous ,: 

 palpi streaked with blackish at sides : frons with blackish bar ; 

 tegulse with black line near tii)s ; patagia with black outer 

 edge and some black scales near upper edge ; tibife streaked 

 with black, tarsi with black rin^s ; abdomen rutbus irrorated with 

 dark brown. Fore wing violaceous grej^ irrorated and suffused 

 with fuscous ; a black streak below base of cell ; subbasal line 

 represented by double striae from costa ; antemedial line indistinctly 

 double, excurved in the interspaces and very strongly angled 

 inwards on the veins ; orbicular and reniform defined by black, the 

 former round, open below and with a curved mark below it ; post- 

 medial line indistinct, dentate, bent outwards below costa and 

 incurved below vein 4 to lower edge of I'eniform ; subterminal line 

 represented by a series of small dentate black marks. Hind wing- 

 pale uniformly suffused with reddish brown ; cilia white at tips ; 

 the underside white slightly tinged with purple and irrorated with 

 brown, a discoidal lunule and traces of a postmedial line. 



Eah. U.S.A., Colorado, Glenwood Springs, 1 § . Exp. 46 

 millim. 



2440. Graptolitha oregonensis. (Plate CIII. fig. 7.) 



Lithophave oregonensis, Harv. Can. Ent. viii. p. 55 (1876) ; Smith, Cat. 

 Noct. N. Am. p. 228. 



S . Head and thorax violaceous whitish tinged with red-brown ; 

 frons with blackish bars at sides and above ; antennae white at 

 base ; tegulae with black medial line ; patagia with black outer 

 edge ; tibiae streaked with black, the tarsi banded with black ; 

 abdomen pale rufous. Fore wiug bluish white slightly tinged with 

 fuscous, the basal costal area whiter, the veins slightly streaked 

 with black ; a sinuous black streak below base of cell ; subbasal 

 line represented by a black point on costa ; an oblique fuscous 

 streak across cell ; antemedial line represented by double oblique 

 stride from costa, angled outwards in cell, then almost obsolete ; 

 claviform slightly defined by black ; orbicular white defined by 

 black, upright elliptical and confluent with a mark below cell : 

 reniform white defined by black, its centre suffused with rufous ; 

 a blackish patch in cell between the stigmata ; a faint incurved 

 medial shade from cell to inner margin ; postmedial line obsolete ; 



