258 UOCTUIDiE. 



suffused with brown, especially on the veins and terminal area ; the 

 underside whitish, the costal and terminal areas irrorated with 

 hrown, a small discoidal spot and traces of a postmedial line. 



Ab. 1. Whiter, slightly tinged with green. 



Ab. 2. Lilacine grey without green tinge. 



Ab. 3. Lilacine grey suffused with fuscous, especially on medial 

 area. 



Hah. Japak, Hakodate {Andreivs), 1 S ■, Yokohama {Jonas, 

 Fryer), 2 c? , 7 $ type. Ex_p. 36-40 millim. 



*2410. Graptolitha hrachyptera. 



Xylina hrachyptera. Stand. Eoin. Mem. vi. p. 520, pi. 9. f. 9 (1892); id. 

 Cat. Lep. pal. p. 211. 



c? . Head and thorax grey-white ; tegulse with slight dark 

 medial line ; abdomen pale brownish. Fore wing grey-white ; 

 subbasal line represented by black striae from costa and cell ; 

 a sinuous black streak in base of submedian fold, extending to 

 beyond and not connected with the subbasal line ; antemedial line 

 represented by double black strise from costa, then single, slight, 

 oblique, waved ; claviform defined by black and with black streak 

 from it to postmedial line ; orbicular and reniform with brownish 

 centres and white annuli defined by black, the former rather 

 oblique elliptical, the latter constricted at middle ; medial line 

 represented by a black striga from costa and some fuscous suffusion 

 in cell ; postmedial line represented by double black striae from 

 costa, then single, slight, strongly bent outwards below costa, then 

 dentate, incurved below vein 4 ; subterminal line formed of slight 

 brown lunules, somewhat angled outwards at vein 7 ; a terminal 

 series of slight black lunules. Hind wing pale brown ; the cilia 

 whitish with a brown line through them ; the underside dirty 

 white with dark discoidal spot and terminal line. 



Hah. E. SiBEBiA, Ussuri. Exj). 36 millim. This species is 

 unknown to me. 



2411. Graptolitha ornithopus. 



Noctua ornithopus, Eott. Naturf. ix. p. 124 (1776) ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. 



p. 211. 

 Noctua rhizolitha, Schiff. Wien. Verz. p. 75 (1776) ; Treit. Schmett. v. 3, 



p. 21 (1826) ; Esp. Schmett. iv. pi. 121. f. 6 ; Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., 



Noct. f. 242 ; Dup. Lep. Er. vii. p. 187, pi. 112. f. 3 ; Steph. 111. Brit. 



Ent., Haust. ii. p. 170. 



Head and thorax grey- white mixed with pale brown ; palpi 

 streaked with black at sides ; frons with black bar ; tegulae with 

 black line near tips, with some rufous before it and white beyond 

 it ; patagia with black outer edge ; pectus tinged with rufous ; 

 tibiae streaked with black ; abdomen grey, dorsally irrorated with 

 fuscous, veutrally with rufous. Pore wing grey-white slightly 



