276 N0CTtriD.9i;. 



2437. Graptolitha fletcheri. (Plate CUT. fig. 4.) 

 Xylina Aeicheri, Smith, Psyche, si. p. 56 (1904). 



$ . Head and thorax blue-grej' mixed with fuscous ; frons with 

 lateral black bars and black bar above ; antenna? white at base ; 

 tegulae with medial black line ; patagia with black outer edge ; 

 tibiae streaked with black, the tarsi banded with blackish ; 

 abdomen pale rufous. Fore wing blue-grey irrorated with fuscous, 

 the veins blackish ; a sinuous black streak below base of cell ; 

 subbasal line represented by an oblique striga from costa ; ante- 

 medial line indistinctly double, strongly angled outwards in the 

 interspaces and inwards on the veins and in submedian fold ; 

 claviform absent ; orbicular and reniform hardly defined, the 

 former rather triangular with two fuscous points in centre and 

 no mark below cell, the latter angled outwards at upper extremity 

 and with fuscous mark in lower portion ; an oblique blackish 

 medial shade from costa to median nervure; postmedial line hardly 

 traceable, bent outwards below costa, then dentate ; subterminal 

 line represented by a series of small dentate black marks ; a 

 terminal series of slight black points. Hind wing pale fuscous 

 brown tinged with nifous, the veins and terminal line browner ; 

 cilia whitish at tips ; the underside whitish tinged with pink and 

 irrorated with brown, a dark discoidal lunule and diffused post- 

 medial line. 



Hah. Canaba, Ottawa {Fletcher), 2 $ co-type. Exp. 46 millim. 



2438. Graptolitha georgi. (Plate GUI. fig. 5.) 



Lithoplmnc georqii, Grrote, Can. Ent. vii. p. 188 (1875) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. 

 N. Am. p. 228. 



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

 black bar ; tegulge with black line near tips ; patagia with black 

 outer edge ; .tibisf) streaked with black ; abdomen reddish brown, 

 dorsally irrorated .with fuscous. Fore wing blue-grey, irrorated 

 and suffused with fuscous ; some pale purplish at base of inner 

 margin ; a sinuous black line below base of cell ; subbasal line 

 represented by two oblique striae from costa ; antemedial line indis- 

 tinctly double, strongly dentate ; claviform absent ; orbicular and 

 reniform moderate, defined by black, the former rounded, conjoined 

 to a small elliptical spot below cell, the latter very slightly angled 

 inwards on median nervure and with brownish mark in its lower 

 part; most distinct from costa to middle of cell; postmedial line 

 very indistinct, dentate, bent outwards below costa and oblique 

 below vein 4 ; the veins of terminal area finely streaked with black ; 

 a subterminal series of small dentate black marks. Hind wing 

 pale, uniformly suffused with reddish brown ; cilia white at tips ; 

 the underside white tinged with purple and irrorated with brown, 

 a small discoidal lunule and traces of a sinuous postmedial line. 



