274 NOCTUIDJi. 



side ; reniform with a slight gre}^ annulus defined hy fuscous, 

 somewhat angled inwards on median nervure ; a faint, curved, 

 minutely ^A-aved medial line ; postmedial line slightly defined by 

 grey on outer side, dentate, bent outwards below costa and 

 incurved below vein 4 ; subterminal line whitish defined by small 

 dentate dark marks on inner side, slightly angled outwards at 

 vein 7 and escurved at middle. Hind wing whitish nearly 

 uniformly suffused with brown ; cilia brown at base, white at 

 tips : the underside white slightly tinged with purple and irrorated 

 with brown, a discoidal lunule and sinuous postmedial line. 



Hob. Canada; U.S.A., N. & E. States, Vermont, New York, 

 Centre (T^^. W. Hill), 1 d , 1 $ • Exp. 46 millim. 



2434. Graptolitha vertina. (Plate CUT. fig. 1.) 



Xylina vertina, Smith, Psyche, xi. p. 58 (1904). 



S . Head and thorax blue-grey mixed with brown ; frons with 

 black bars at sides and above; antennae white at base; tegulse 

 with black medial line defined by white above ; patagia with black 

 outer edges ; tibiae streaked with black; tarsi banded with black ; 

 abdomen pale rufous. Fore wing blue-grey slightly irrorated with 

 fuscous, the veins with slight black streaks ; a sinuous blaclv streak 

 below base of cell ; subbasal line represented by a slight striga 

 from costa ; a diffused fuscous streak across the cell ; antemedial 

 line indistinct, double, angled outwards in the interspaces and 

 inwards on the veins, strongly angled outwards in cell ; orbicular 

 defined by black, round, open below and connected with a faint 

 mark below cell ; reniform defined by black on inner side only and 

 with curved streak defined by black on its lower edge ; medial 

 shade oblique, blackish, and prominent from costa to lower angle of 

 cell, then incurved, less distinct ; postmedial line hardly traceable, 

 bent outwards below costa, then dentate; some white points beyond 

 it on costa ; subterminal line i-epresented by a series of small 

 dentate black, marks ; a terminal series of slight black lunules. 

 Hind Aving grey suffused with pale rufous ; cilia white at tips ; the 

 underside white tinged with rufous and irrorated with brown, a 

 large dark discoidal lunule and sinuous postmedial line. 



Hah. Canada, Br. Columbia, 1 d co-type; U.S.A., Oregon, 

 Corvallis. Exp. 48 millim. 



2435. Graptolitha ancilla. (Plate CIII. fig. 2.) 



Xylina ancilla, Smith, Psyche, xi. p. .57 (1904). 



cJ . Head and thorax blue-grey mixed with fuscous brown ; 

 palpi with black streak at sides ; frons with lateral black bars and 

 black bar above; antennae white at base; tegulse with medial black 

 line ; patagia with black outer edge ; tibiae streaked with black ; 



