256 NOCITTID^. 



angled inwards on median uervure ; traces of a medial shade ; 

 postmedial line double at costa, then indistinct, bent outwards 

 below costa, strongly dentate and produced to double black points 

 on the veins, oblique below vein 4 and angled inwards in sub- 

 median fold almost to the antemedial line ; subterminal line in- 

 distinct, pale, defined on inner side by small rufous dentate marks, 

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

 streaked with black towards termen ; a terminal series of black 

 points. Hind wing fuscous brown, the cilia rufous, whitish at 

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

 and sinuous postmedial line. 



Hah. U.S.A., N.E. States, Maine, 1 c? , 2 $ , type. Exp. 

 44 millim. 



2407. Graptolitha signosa. (Plate CII. iig. 14.) 



Xijlina signosa, Wlk. xi. 627 (1857; ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 227. 



Head and thorax reddish brown mixed with grey and irrorated 

 with black : pal^^i streaked with dark brown at sides ; frons with 

 brown bar ; tegulse with black line near tips ; patagia with some 

 black scales near upper edge ; thorax with dorsal red-brow^n streak ; 

 tibi^ streaked with black ; abdomen pale reddish brown irrorated 

 with fuscous. Fore wing brownish grey tinged with rufous, the 

 veins with slight dark streaks ; a slight streak below base of cell ; 

 subbasal line represented by double oblique striae from costa and 

 cell ; antemedial line indistinctly double, strongly angled outwards 

 in the interspaces and inwards to double black points on the veins, 

 connected with the postmedial line by a blackish streak in sub- 

 median fold ; orbicular incompletely defined by brown, irregularly 

 oblique elliptical ; reniform represented by a curved brown streak 

 below end of cell ; traces of a medial shade towards costa ; post- 

 medial line double at costa, bent outwards below costa, then highly 

 dentate and produced to double black points on the veins, oblique 

 below vein 4 ; subterminal line indistinct, pale, defined on inner 

 side bv a series of dentate rufotis marks, angled outwards at vein 7 

 and dentate at veins 4, 3 ; cilia rufous intersected with grey. 

 Hind wing reddish brown, the cilia whitish at tips ; the underside 

 whitish irrorated with brown, a discoidal spot and sinuous post- 

 medial line. 



Hah. Canada ; U.S.A., N.E. States (Bouhleday), 1 $ type. New 

 York, Schenectady (Lintner), 1 c? , 1 2 . Exp. 44-48 millim. 



2408. Graptolitha amanda. (Plate CII. fig. 15.) 



Xylina amanda. Smith, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xxvii. p. 24 (1900) ; Dyar, 

 Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 170. 



$ . Head and thorax white tinged with brown and slightly 

 irrorated with black ; palpi streaked with brown ; frons with 

 brown bar ; the crests on vertex of head and prothorax tipped with 



