GBAPTOLITHA. ' 261 



with brown ; the underside with small discoidal luniile and 

 indistinct curved postmedial line. 



Hah. Canada.; U.S.A., Maine, JSTew York, Centre {Hill), 1 S -, 

 1 $ . Exp. 40 millim. 



2414. G-raptolitha furcifera* 



Nuctua furcifera, Hiifn. Eerl. Ent. Mag. iii. ^. 402 (1767) ; Staud. Cat. 



Lep. pal. p. 210. 

 Noctua co7iformis, Schiff. Wien. Verz. p. 76 (1776); Hiibn. Eur. Scbmett., 



Noct. f. 243 ; Dup. Lep. Fr. vii. p. 182, pi. 112. f. 2. 

 Noctua bifurca, Esp. Sohmett. iv. pi. 131. f. 1 (1788). 

 Xyli7ia S'uffusa, Tutt, Brit. Noct. iii. p. 104 (1892). 



Head and thorax grey mi.xed with brown or deep red-brown ; 

 frons with black bar ; tegulte with brown line defined by white 

 behind near tips ; patagla with dark streak on outer edges ; tibiae 

 with dark streaks ; abdomen grey suffused with purple-brown. 



Pig. 81. — GraptoUiha furcifera, cS ■ \- 



Eore wing silvery grey more or less strongly suffused and irrorated 

 with reddish brown ; a sinuous black streak below base of cell 

 defined by whitish above ; subbasal line angled outwards below 

 costa and ending at submedian fold ; antemedial line indistinctly 

 double, waved ; claviform defined by black, incompletely above, 

 a black streak in submedian fold from it to postmedial line ; 

 orbicular indistinctly defined by brown, oblique elliptical ; reniform 

 very large, its centre tinged with blood-red, and with grey annulus 

 defined by brown and with curved black mark below, somewhat 

 angled inwards on median nervure ; a diffused brown medial shade, 

 oblique from costa to below cell, then angled inwards in submedian 

 fold ; postmedial line dentate, bent outwards below costa, incurved 

 below vein 4 and confluent with lower edge of reniform ; sub- 

 terminal line brown, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at 

 middle. Hind wing whitish tinged with reddish brown, especially 

 on terminal area; the underside pale, the costal and terminal areas 

 irrorated with purplish red, a discoidal spot and curved somewhat 

 sinuous postmedial line. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing pale grey with hardly any brown suffusion. 



Ab. 2. suffusa. Much darker, the fore wing strongly suffused 

 with dark brown. 



