260 NOCTtriDJE. 



defined below bj- curved black streaks, the former oblique V-shaped, 

 open above, the latter constricted at middle and slightly angled 

 inwards on median nervure ; a diffused medial line oblique from costa 

 to vein 2 and angled inwards in submedian fold ; postmedial line 

 slight, defined by grey on inner side, dentate, bent outwards below 

 costa and oblique below vein 4, angled outwards in discal fold, 

 inwards on vein 2 and very strongly inwards in submedian fold ; 

 subterminal line grey defined by dark brown on outer side near 

 discal and submedian folds, dentate, angled inwards to the post- 

 medial line at discal and submedian folds. Hind wing red-brown, 

 the cilia pale purplish red ; the underside purplish red irrorated 

 with brown, a small discoidal spot and curved postmedial line. 



Ab. 1. somniculosa. Pore wing less distinctly marked. 



Ab. 2. zinceni. Pore wing more variegated and marked with 

 white. 



Ifab. Canada ; U.S.A., Maine, Massachusetts, Newton (Thaxter), 

 4 (5' , 2 $ , type tliaxteri, New York, 1 c? , 1 $ ; Bkixain ; Belgium ; 

 GERMANr, Leech Coll. ; Austria ; Switzerland ; Iceland, Leech 

 Coll. ; Scandinavia ; Finland, Leech Coll. ; Eussia, St. Petersburg, 

 Zeller and Prey Colls.; E. Siberia, Amurland. Exp. 42-46 

 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 52 ; Barrett, Lep. Brit. vi. p. 36, pi. 235. f. 4. 



Bluish green with the lines white ; spiracles yellowish edged 

 with brown ; ventral surface and feet pale green ; head and 

 cervical shield pale yellow-brown, or blue-green irrorated with 

 white ; dorsal and subdorsal lines white ; a lateral yellow stripe 

 with the black-edged white spiracles on it. Pood-plant, Myrica. 6. 



2413. Graptolitha lepida, (Plate CII. fig. 16.) 



Xylina leinda, Lint. Eut. Cont. iv. p. 95 (1878) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. 

 Am. p. 230. 



Head and thorax dark brown mixed with grey-white ; frons 

 with dark bar ; tegulse with blackish medial line defined by white 

 above ; patagia with whitish outer edge ; abdomen purplish red- 

 brown irrorated with grey. Pore wing violaceous grey suffused 

 and irrorated with fuscous ; some purplish at base of inner margin ; 

 a slight black streak below base of cell ; subbasal line double filled 

 in with grey, strongly angled inwards on subcostal nervure and 

 ending at submedian fold ; antemedial line defined by grey on inner 

 side, angled inwards on the veins ; claviform absent ; orbicular and 

 reaiform large with grey annuli defined by black, the former 

 oblique elliptical, the latter constricted at middle and angled 

 inwards on median nervure ; a diffused medial shade ; j)Ostmedial 

 line defined by grey on outer side, irregularly dentate, bent out- 

 wards below costa, incurved below vein 4 and angled inwards in 

 submedian fold almost to the antemedial line ; subterminal line 

 formed of blackish lunules, angled outwards at vein 7 and slightly 

 dentate at veins 4, 3. Hind wing pale purplish pink irrorated 



