268 IfOCTPIDiB. 



Hind wing grey-brown tinged with reddish, the terminal area 

 rather darker; cilia whitish at tips; the underside whitish suffused 

 with rufous and irrorated with brown, a discoidal lunule and 

 diffused curved postmedial line. 



Hah. Canada, Manitoba {Cartiu right), 1 5 co-type. Exp. 44 

 millim. 



This is probably a variety of G. tepida. 



2424. Graptolitha tepida. (Plate CII. fig. 24.) 



Lithophane tepida, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. ii. p. 27 (1874); 

 Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 229. 



Head and thorax violaceous grey mixed with fuscous ; palpi 

 streaked with black at sides, frons and vertex of head with black 

 bars ; teguhe with black line near tips ; patagia with black outer 

 edge and some black scales near upper edge ; pectus tinged with 

 purplish in front ; tibise and tarsi streaked with black ; abdomen 

 grey-brown, the anal tuft and ventral surface tinged with rufous. 

 Fore wing grey-white suffused with silvery fuscous ; a curved 

 black streak below base of cell defined by whitish above ; subbasal 

 line represented by double black striae from costa and oblique striga 

 from subcostal nervure to end of streak below cell ; antemedial 

 line doiible, waved, angled outwards above inner margin ; claviform 

 moderate, defined by black ; orbicular and reniform moderate, 

 defined by black, the former lunulate with grey centre and strong 

 white annulus, the latter with its centre defined by fuscous and 

 some blood-red in lower part ; a medial line with diffused fuscous 

 beyond it, oblique from costa to median nervure, then waved ; 

 postmedial line dentate and produced to slight streaks on the veins, 

 bent outwards below costa and incurved below vein 4 to lower 

 edge of reniform ; subterminal line represented by a series of 

 islight whitish marks with small dentate black marks before them, 

 angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a terminal 

 series of small black lunules. Hind wing uniform fuscous brown ; 

 the underside brown tinged with purplish pink, a small discoidal 

 lunule and obliquely curved postmedial line. 



Eah. U.S.A., JST. & E. States, Massachusetts, New York, Albany 

 {Bailey), 1 c? , 1 $ tyjie, Centre {Lintner, Bailey), 1 (S , 2 $. 

 Bwjo. 40-44 millim. 



2425. Graptolitha baileyi. (Plate GIL fig. 25.) 



Lithophane baileyi, Grote, Can. Ent. ix. p. 86 (1877); Smith, Cat. Noct. 

 N. Am. p. 229. 



Head and thorax greenish grey mixed with black-brown ; pal])i 

 streaked with black at sides ; frons and vertex of head with black 

 bars ; tegul® with black line near tips ; patagia with blaclt outer 

 edge and some black scales near upper edge ; tibia3 and tarsi 

 streaked with black ; abdomen grey-brown, the anal tuft and 



