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tarsi with blackish bands ; abdomen pale rufous. Fore Aviug blue- 

 grey irrorated with fuscous, the veins blackish ; a sinuous black 

 streak below base of cell ; subbasal line represented by a black 

 striga from costa ; an oblique black streak across the cell ; ante- 

 medial line hardly traceable, angled outwards in the interspaces 

 and inwards on the veins; orbicular and reniform defined by black, 

 the former upright elliptical confluent with a mark below cell, the 

 latter angled outwards at ripper extremity and with dark mark in 

 lower part ; an oblique blackish medial shade from costa to median 

 nervure ; postmedial line almost obsolete, bent outM ards below 

 costa, then dentate, oblique below vein 4 ; subterminal line repre- 

 sented by a series of small dentate black marks ; a terminal series 

 of slight black points. Hind wing pale rufous, the veins and 

 terminal line browner ; cilia whitish at tips ; the underside whitish 

 irrorated with pale brown ; a dark diseoidal lunule and indistinct 

 sinuous postmedial line. 



5 . Fore wing with the orbicular and mark below it smaller. 



Hah. Canada, Ontario, Orillia (Norman), 1 5, Manitoba (Oart- 

 turight), 1 c? , 1 $ , Alberta, Calgary, Br. Columbia, Wellington, 

 1 c? , Vancouver I. (J. J. Walker), 1 cT • Exp. 46-50 millim. 



2436. Graptolitha holocinerea. (Plate ClII. fig. 3.) 



Xylina holocinerea. Smith, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xsvii. p. 28 (1900) ; 

 Dyar, Cat. Lep. N. Ana. p. 171. 



Head and thorax blue-grey mixed with black ; frons with black 

 bar ; tegulae with black line near tips ; patagia with black outer 

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

 black, tarsi with black rings ; abdomen reddish brown irrorated 

 with dark brown. Fore wing blue-grey irrorated and suifused 

 with fuscous ; a black streak below base of cell ; subbasal line 

 represented by two oblique striae from costa ; antemedial line 

 excurved in interspaces and verj- strongly angled inwards on the 

 veins ; claviform small, defined by black, or obsolete ; orbicular 

 and reniform defined by black, the former round, conjoined below 

 to an elliptical mark, the latter angled inwards on median nervure 

 and sometimes with some rufous in its lower part ; postmedial line 

 indistinct, strongly dentate, bent outwards below costa, oblique 

 below vein 4 and touching lower part of reniform ; subterminal 

 line represented by a series of small dentate black marks. Hind 

 wing fuscous brown ; cilia whitish at tips ; the underside whitish 

 tinged with purple and irrorated with brown, a diseoidal lunule 

 and indistinct irregular postmedial line. 



Hah. Canada, Manitoba, Br. Cohimbia, Wellington (Bryant), 

 1 (5 , 1 2, Yancouver; U.S.A., Washington, Pullman, California, 

 Sierra Nevada (Walsingliam), 2 $ . Exp. 52 millim. 



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