■272 ifocTiriD^. 



Hah. U.S.A., Colorado, Glenwood Springs (Barnes), 1 5 co-type, 

 Ex2i. 46 millim. 



2430. Graptolitha contenta. (Plate CII. fig. 29.) 



Lithophane contenta, Grote, Can. Ent. xii. p. 216 (1880) ; Smith, Cat. 



Noct. ]Sr. Am. p. 228. 

 Xylincb pomona. Smith, J. N.Y. Ent. Soc. vii. p. 230 (1899). 



S . Head and thorax violaceous grey mixed with reddish brown ; 

 palpi streaked with brown at sides ; frons with brown bar ; tegulae 

 reddish on basal half and with medial brown line ; patagia with 

 some black scales near upper edge ; tibiae streaked with black ; 

 abdomen pale reddish, dorsally tinged with fuscous. Pore wing 

 violaceous grey suffused with pale reddish brown ; the veins with 

 slight dark streaks ; a fine black streak below base of ceU. ; sub- 

 basal line represented by two oblique striae from costa ; antemedial 

 line rather indistinct, double, highly angled outwards in the inter- 

 spaces and inwards on the veins ; orbicular very faint, whitish 

 with four black points on its edges ; reniform represented by a 

 faint flesh-pink mark with some fuscous below it and a more 

 prominent black streak below angle of cell and point beyond angle ; 

 a curved medial shade ; postmedial line indistinct, strongly bent 

 outwards below costa, then very highly dentate ; subterminal line 

 represented by a series of small dentate fuscous marks ; a terminal 

 series of slight dark lunules. Hind wing whitish tinged with 

 reddish brown, especially on the veins and terminal area ; the 

 underside white tinged with purplish pink and irrorated with 

 brown, a discoidal lunule, sinuous postmedial line, and some slight 

 lunules on termen. 



Hab. U.S.A., Washington, California, 1 (S type. E.vp. 44 

 millim. 



*2431. Graptolitha pnella. (Plate CII. fig. 30.) 



Xylina piiella, Smith, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xxvii. p. 30 (1900) ; Dyar, 

 Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 169. 



5 . Head and thorax whitish grey; frons with dark line; tegulae 

 with blackish line near tips with some rufous before it ; patagia 

 with black outer edge ; abdomen slightly tinged with rufous. 

 Pore wing whitish grey ; subbasal line represented by double 

 blaclc striae from costa ; a black streak below base of cell with 

 some fuscous suffusion above and below it, the costal area above it 

 almost white ; antemedial line double, the outer line black, the 

 inner fuscous, nearly erect, irregular, moderately dentate outwards 

 in the interspaces ; claviform small, defined by black ; orbicular 

 and reniform pale with a yellowish or reddish tinge, the former 

 defined by black, elliptical and extending to well below median 

 nervure, the latter large, defined by black, slightly angled inwards 

 on median nervure ; medial shade diff"u8ed, blackish or fuscous, 



