270 NOCTUID^. 



2427. Graptolitha viridipallens. (Plate CII. fig. 27.) 



Lithophane viridipaUens, Grote, Can. Ent. ix. p. 215 (1877) ; id. Illustr, 

 Essay, p. 57, pi. 2. f. 22 ; Smith, Oat. Noct. N. Am. p. 229. 



c? . Head and thorax grey-green ; palpi streaked with black at 

 sides; frons with black bar; tegulae with slight dark line near 

 tips ; patagia \\ith black outer edge ; pro- and metathorax with 

 blaclc points ; legs irrorated with black ; tarsi with black rings ; 

 abdomen whitish tinged with brown. Fore wing grey-green ; 

 subbasal Hue represented by double striae from costa and an 

 obliquely curved line from subcostal nervure to vein 1 ; ante- 

 medial line oblique, waved ; claviform absent ; orbicular and 

 reniform slightly defined by black, the former kidney-shaped, open 

 above and below, the latter with some fuscous in centre ; an 

 oblique diffused waved medial line ; postmedial line indistinctly 

 double, minutely waved, slightly bent outwards below costa and 

 incurved below vein 4 ; a slight dark subterminal line, angled 

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

 black points. Hind wing greyish brown, the cilia white ; the 

 underside whitish with a faint vinous tinge and brown irroration, 

 a small discoidal spot and curved postmedial line. 



Hah. U.S.A., Massachusetts, Newton. (Tkaxter), 1 § type. 

 JSlrp. 42 millim. 



2428. Graptolitha lapidea. 



Hocttia lapidea, Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 382 (1827); Dup. Lep. Fr., 

 Suppl. iii. p. 381, pi. 34. f. 1 ; Mill. Icones, i. pi. 9. ff. 3-5; Staud. 

 Cat. Lep. pal. p. 211. 



Noctua sabina, Geyer, Eur. Schmett, Noct. ff. 76fi-7 (1834). 



Xylina cupressivora, Staud. Cat. Lep. Eur. p. 120 (1871). 



Xylina leautieri, Boisd. Ind. Meth. Add. p. 6 (1829). 



Head and thorax grey mixed with brown ; palpi streaked with 

 dark brown at sides ; frons with brown bar ; tegulae with brown 

 line near tips ; patagia with brown outer edge and some black 

 scales near upper edge ; tibia? streaked with black ; abdomen 

 reddish brown tinged with grey. Fore wing whitish irrorated and 

 suffused with brown ; a black streak below base of cell ; subbasal 

 line represented by an oblique striga from costa ; antemedial line 

 forming strong and irregular angles outward in and below cell, 

 then more prominent and very oblique to vein 1, where it ter- 

 minates, connected in submedian fold by a very short black streak 

 with the postmedial line ; orbicular and reniform ill-defined, 

 whitish, connected by a whitish streak on median nervure with a 

 black streak below it, the former oblique elliptical, the latter rather 

 narrow ; a slight curved medial shade ; postmedial line with dark 

 mark at costa, then indistinct, bent outwards below costa, then 

 strongly dentate, excurved to vein 4, then oblique and highly 

 angled inwards in submedian fold ; subterminal line hardly defined 

 except by imall dentate brown marks on its inner side, more 



