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wing blue-grey irrorated and in part siiffused with fuscous ; a 

 black streak below base of cell with some rufous above and below 

 it; subbasal line represented by double strias from costa; ante- 

 medial line double, waved, angled inwards on vein 1 ; elaviform 

 moderate, defined by black; orbicular and reniform with grey 

 annuli defined by black, the former rather oblique elliptical, con- 

 joined to a small round annulus below the cell, the latter somewhat 

 constricted at middle, its centre suffused with rufous ; a waved 

 medial line oblique from costa to vein 2, then inwardly oblique ; 

 postmedial line indistinctly double, bent outwards below costa, 

 excurved and dentate to vein 3, then oblique ; some grey points on 

 costa towards apex ; subterminal line grey, defined on inner side 

 by small dentate brown marks, angled outwards at vein 7 and 

 slightly excurved at middle ; a terminal series of small black 

 lunules. Hind wing brown, the cilia tipped with white ; the 

 underside whitish, tinged with purplish red and irrorated with 

 fuscous, a discoidal lunule and minutely waved postmedial line. 



Hah. Canada, N.W. Br. Columbia; U.S.A.., Washington, Pull- 

 man, 1 5 , Colorado, Garfield Co., 4000', California, Soda Springs. 

 Exp. 44 millim. 



Larva. Head testaceous greenish. Body uniformly cylindrical, 

 green ; dorsal and substigmatal lines white, narrow, distinct ; the 

 other lines reduced to dots about the size of the tubercles. 

 Tubercles white. Peet green. Feeds on wild cherry. — H. Gr. D. 



2423. Graptolitha atincta. (Plate CII. fig. 23.) 

 Xylina atincta, Smith, J. ]Sr.Y. Ent. Soc. xiii. p. 206 (1905). 



5 . Head and thorax purplish grey mixed with brown ; palpi 

 with black streak at sides ; frons with black bar above ; a whitish 

 line between antennae ; tegulge with black medial line ; patagia 

 with black outer edge ; tarsi banded with black ; abdomen dull 

 red-brown, ventrally rufous. Fore wing violaceous grey slightly 

 suffused with fuscous brown ; a curved black streak below base of 

 cell defined by white above and extending to the subbasal line 

 which is indistinct, double filled in with whitish, angled outwards 

 below costa and in cell ; antemedial line double, oblique, waved ; 



.elaviform slightly defined by black; orbicular white defined by 

 black and with grey centre, lunulate ; reniform with grey centre 

 and whitish annulus defined by black, with whitish line in centre 

 and some rufous on lower part ; an irregularly waved black medial 

 line with fuscous suffusion on its outer edge ; postmedial line 



' defined by greyish on outer side, double at costa, bent outwards 

 below costa, then dentate, excurved to vein 4, then incurved and 

 angled outwards on vein 1, some pale points beyond it on costa; 

 subterminal line indistinct, whitish defined by fuscous on inner 

 side forming dentate marks at discal and submedian folds, angled 

 outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a terminal series of 

 slight black lunules ; cilia with a blackish line through them. 



