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fold, tlien strongly inwards, ob.soleto below vein 1, sometimes 

 defined by a few white scales ; oi'bicular and reniform just traceable, 

 the former elongate elliptical, defined by brown, the latter narrow 

 with pale annulus, Avith a blackish point below ; median shade 

 broad at costa, narrowing to median nervure, then obsolescent, 

 crossed by a slight dark streak in submedian fold to the postmedial 

 line, which is faint, brownish, bent outwards below costa, then 

 crenulate, oblique, and somewhat more distinct below vein 4 ; sub- 

 terminal line only defined by a slight triangular shade from termen 

 below apex ending in a black point on postmedial line between veins 

 4, 5, and another triangular shade ending in a blackish point below 

 vein 2 ; cilia brownish with a pale line through them. Hind wing 

 brownish grey, the veins slightly darker ; a faint discoidal spot ; a 

 fine dark terminal line ; cilia white ; the underside grey with some 

 dark irroration and a slight discoidal spot. 



Hah. U.S.^V., Colorado. Exp. 35-37 raillim. This species is 

 unknown to me, figured from a drawing from type in Coll. J. B. 

 Smith. 



2443. Graptolitha fagiiia. (Plate CIII. fig. 9.) 



Litliophane faqina, Morr. Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. ii. p. 115 (1874) ; 

 Smith, Cat.'Noct. N. Am. p. 228. 



Head and thorax pale violaceous grey mixed with fuscous ; frons 

 with dark bar ; tegular with blackish line near tii)S ; tibiae streaked 

 with black ; tarsi brown with pale rings ; abdomen brownish white 

 irrorated with fuscous, the lateral and anal tufts tinged with rufous. 

 Fore wing pale violaceous grey finely irrorated with fuscous ; the 

 costal area suftused with white to beyond middle ; the veins finely 

 streaked with black ; subbasal line represented by an acutely 

 dentate mark from base of costa; antemedial line fine, exiremely 

 highly and irregularly dentate, the teeth in and below cell bidentate 

 at tips ; orbicular and reniform obsolete ; black streaks in upper and 

 lower part of cell and a short streak in middle of cell ; postmedial 

 line fine, extremely highly dentate, in submedian fold connected 

 with the antemedial line ; a subterminal series of sliulit dentate 

 dark marks, except towards costa and inner margin. Hind wing 

 yellowish white tinged with brown, especially on the veins and 

 terminal area ; the underside white, the costal and terminal areas 

 irrorated with brown, a discoidal spot and irregular postmedial line 

 showing through to upper side. 



Hah. U.S.A., Maine, 1 c? , Massachusetts, Xewton (Thaxter), 

 1 2 , ^"ew York, Centre (Hill, Ballet/), 1 c? , 3 $ . Exj). 46-50 

 millim. 



