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NOCIUIDJ?. 



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

 N.E. States to Washington, D.C., and west to Nebraska, Massa- 

 chusetts, Buffalo, 3 d' , 1 (^ type. Exp. 44-50 millim. 



2421. Graptolitha antennata. (Plate CII. fig. 21.) 



Xylina antennata, Wlk. xv. 1738 (1858); Saunders, Fruit Insects, p. 138, 



f. 138; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 228. 

 Xylina cinerea, Eilev, 3rd Eep. Ins. Mo. p. 135, f. 57 (1871). 



Head and thorax brown mixed wita grey ; frons with black 

 bar ; tegula3 with black line near tips ; patagia with some black 

 scales near upper edge ; tibiae with slight black streaks, the tarsi 

 with pale rings ; abdomen grey tinged with brown and irrorated 

 with fuscous. Pore wing purplish brown suffused with silvery 

 grey; a sinuous black streak below base of cell, defined by yellowish 

 above ; subbasal line represented by double oblique striae from 

 costa ; antemedial line defined by grey on inner side, angled 

 outwards in the interspaces and inwards on the veins ; claviform. 

 small or moderate, defined by black ; orbicular and reniform with 

 greyish annuli defined by black, the former oblique elliptical, 

 conjoined to a small round spot below cell, the latter somewhat 

 constricted at middle and angled inwards on median nervure ; an 

 obscure waved medial line ; postmedial line slightly defined by 

 grey on outer side, dentate and produced to slight streaks on the 

 veins, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then in- 

 curved ; subterminal line represented by a series of slight dentate 

 dark marks, slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at 

 middle ; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing pale, nearly 

 uniformly suffused with brown, the cilia whitish at tips ; the 

 underside white, slightly tinged with purple and irrorated with 

 brown, a discoidal lunule and sinuous postmedial line. 



Hah. Canada, Ontario, Orillia (Norman), 1 2 '■> U.S.A., N.E. 

 States to Washington, D.C., and west to Nebraska, 7 d , 4 $ , 

 type cinerea, 1 $ , type without locality. Ea'^j. 36-48 millim. 



Larva. Head testaceous, reticulate with greenish. Body with 

 joint 12 enlarged, green ; dorsal line white, narrow, subdorsal 

 broken, lateral obsolete ; substigmatal broad, distinct, white, much 

 heavier than the other lines. Tubercles white, slightly elevated. 

 Feet green.— H. G. D. 



2422. Graptolitha torrida. (Plate CII. fig. 22.) 



Xi/li7ia torrida, Smith, J. K.Y, Ent, Soc. vii. p. 228 (1899) ; Dyar, Cat. 

 Lep. N. Am. p. 170. 



$ . Head and thorax blue-grey mixed with fuscous ; frons with 

 black bar ; tegulae with strong black medial line, with some rufous 

 before it and slight line near tips ; patagia with black outer edge ; 

 tibiae streaked with black ; abdomen greyish mixed with brown 

 and tinged with purplish red especially on ventral surface. Fore 



