250 KOCTTJID^. 



medial line defined by -whitish on outer side, dentate and produced 

 to sliort white and black streaks on the veins, bent outwards below 

 costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved, some white points beyond 

 it on eosta ; subterminal line whitish defined by rufous on inner 

 side, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle, the area 

 beyond it slightly darker. Hind wing uniform fuscous brown, the 

 cilia whitish ; the underside whitish thickly irrorated with rufous, 

 a discoidal spot and curved postmedial line. 



Bob. Canada, Ontario, Orillia {Norman), 3 c? , 1 $ type ; U.S.A., 

 Maine, Vermont, N. York. Exp. 36-40 millim. 



2397. Graptolitha bethimei. (Plate CII. fig. 5.) 



Xylina hetliimci, Grote & Eob. Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. i. p. 354, pi. 7. f. 56 

 (1868); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 227. 



Head and thorax whitish mixed with pale rufous ; palpi streaked 

 with black at sides ; frons with blackish bar ; tegulse with slight 

 black line near tips ; patagia with some black scales near upper 

 edge ; abdomen ochreous grey irrorated with fuscous. Fore wing 

 whitish slightly tinged with red-brown and irrorated with fuscous ; 

 subbasal line represented by slight double striae from eosta ; 

 antemedial line indistinct, double, waved and angled inwards 

 to double black points on the veins, in submedian fold conjoined 

 by a slight fnscbus streak with the postmedial line ; orbicular 

 and reniforra, defined by orange-brown, the former oblique 

 elliptical, open above, the latter open above and somewhat con- 

 stricted at middle ; a slight curved medial shade ; postmedial line 

 indistinctly double, dentate and produced to a double series of black 

 points on the veins, bent outwards below costa and oblique below 

 vein 4, some white points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line 

 indistinct whitish defined by orange-brown on inner side, somewhat 

 angled outwards at vein 7 and dentate at veins 4, 3, the area 

 beyond it with slight dark streaks on the veins ; a terminal series 

 of black points. Hind wing whitish uniformly suffused with 

 fuscous ; some black striae on apical half of termen ; cilia white ; 

 the underside white slightly irrorated with fuscous, a discoidal spot 

 and sinuous postmedial line. 



Hah. Canada, Ontario, Orillia {Norman), 2 J , 1 $ ; U.S.A., 

 N.E. and Middle States, New York, Schenectady (Lintner), 2 c? , 

 1 $ . Evp. 40-42 millim. ' 



Larva. Almost identical- with antennata. — H. G. D. 



2398. Graptolitha patefacta. (Plate CII. fig. 6.) 



Xylina iMte facta, Wlk. xv. 1733 (1858) ; Smith, Cat. Noct.N. Am. p. 231. 



S . Head and thorax grey- white slightly mixed with pale 

 rufoas ; palpi streaked with black at sides ; frons with lateral 

 black bars and black bar above ; antennae with the scales in front 

 of shaft near base black ; tegula; with black medial line defined by 



