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ventral surface tinged with rufous. Fore wing grey or greenish 

 grey irrorated with fuscous ; a black streak below base of cell 

 defined by whitish above ; subbasal line represented by double 

 striae from costa and an oblique striga from subcostal nervure to 

 the streak below cell ; antemedial line double waved ; claviform 

 moderate, more or less completely defined by black ; orbicular and 

 reniform large, defined by black, the former oblique elliptical, open 

 above, the latter with some blood-red in its lower part ; a more or 

 less developed diffused medial shade, oblique from costa to lower 

 angle of cell ; postmedial line indistinctly double, dentate, bent 

 outwards below costa and incurved below vein 4 to lower edge of 

 renifoi-m ; subterminal line represented by a series of small black 

 spots, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a 

 terminal series of small black lunules. Hind wing uniform fuscous 

 brown ; the underside paler tinged with purplish pink and irrorated 

 and suffused with brown, a small discoidal lunule and obliquely 

 curved postmedial line. 



Hah. Canada, Ottawa (Jotm^'), 1 c? , 1 $ ; U.S.A., jSTew York, 

 Albany {Bailey), 1 d^ , 2 $ type, Lewis Co. (W. W. Hill), 1 $. 

 Ex2). 38-42 mniim. 



2426. Graptolitha querguera. (Plate CII. fig. 26.) 



Lithophane querquera, Grote, 6tli Eep. Peab. Ac. Sci. p. 34 (1874) ; 

 id. Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. ii. p. 27, pi. 1. f . 5 ; id. Illustr. Essay, 

 p. 57, pi. 2. f. 21 ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 229. 



Head and thorax grey-green ; palpi streaked with black at sides ; 

 frons with black bar ; tegulse with slight dark line near tips ; 

 patagia with black outer edge ; pro- and metathorax with black 

 spots ; tibiae streaked with black ; tarsi black at extremity ; 

 abdomen pale red-brown dorsally tinged with fuscous. Pore wing 

 grey-green ; a sinuous black streak below base of cell edged with 

 whitish above ; subbasal line represented by two striae from costa 

 and a bar from cell to the basal streak ; an indistinct double waved 

 antemedial line ; claviform represented by a black point at its 

 extremity ; orbicular defined by black bars at sides, open above 

 and below ; reniform large, incompletely defined by black and with 

 diffused brown or blackish patch in centre ; a strong medial black 

 shade from costa to median nervure and slight waved line from 

 it to inner margin ; postmedial line indistinct, double, waved with 

 slight black streaks beyond it on the veins, slightly bent outwards 

 below costa and incurved below vein 4 ; subterminal line repre- 

 sented by a series of small black spots, developed into paired 

 dentate marks in discal and submedian folds ; a terminal series of 

 small black spots. Hind wing uniform fuscous brown ; cilia 

 whitish tinged with brown or pinkish ; the underside pale tinged 

 with pink and irrorated with brown, a discoidal spot and oblique 

 postmedial line. 



Hob. U.S.A., New York, Centre (TK W. Hill), 2 c? , 1 $ type, 

 Missouri. Exjp. 42-44 millim. 



