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brown spots, and below the spiracles there is a brown 

 stripe. 



The food-plants are gooseberry, currant, willow, and 

 birch. 



Mountains of New England and New York, Michigan, 

 Nebraska, Washington Territory ; occasional from West 

 Virginia to Georgia. 



58. GRAPTA GRACILIS, Gr. Rob. 



Expanse of wings 2.25 inches. 



Upper surface fulvous, darker at the base and fading 

 out paler in the outer half, the fulvous brown border 

 of the fore wings replaced on the hind wings by yellowish 

 edged internally by ferruginous brown. Next this border 

 is a series of elongate yellow lunules, confluent on the 

 hind wings, where they are supplemented internally by 

 a rusty brown shade. On the fore wings there is the 

 usual subapical brown patch, also one at the posterior 

 angle, usually connected with a shade of the same. In 

 the middle area of the fore wings are the usual five 

 dots and bar of black, and three black spots on the hind 

 wings. 



The color of the greater part of the under side is 

 olivaceous yellow, with the usual vinous brown shade 

 through the middle, sharply defined outwardly, beyond 

 which the wing is paler. There are three elongate 

 patches of this color, edged with darker, in the cell of 

 the fore wings, and the base of both wings is marked 

 with the same. The whole wing is marbled with fine 

 abbreviated streaks of either brown or a darker shade 

 of the ground color. There is the usual submarginal 

 row of points in an olivaceous band, the three subapical 



