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Hah. Can-ada, Ontario, Orillia (Norman), 1 c? type ; U.S.A., N. 

 & E. States, Maine, ISTew York. Kvj). 50 millim. 



G. emarc/inata, vertina, ancilla, JletcJieri, and hohcinerea are 

 probablj' all varieties of this species. 



2439. Graptolitha emarginata. (Plate CIII. fig. 6.) 



Xylina emarginata. Smith, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xxvii. p. 28 (1900); 

 'Dyar, Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 171. 



5 . Head and thorax violaceous grey mixed with fuscous ; 

 palpi streaked with blackish at sides ; irons with blackish bar ; 

 tegulse with black line near tips ; patagia with black outer 

 edge and some black scales near upper edge ; tibiae streaked 

 Avith black, tarsi with black rings ; abdomen rufous irrorated with 

 dark brown. Fore wing violaceous grey irrorated and suffused 

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

 represented by double strias from costa ; antemedial line indistinctly 

 double, excurved in the interspaces and very strongly angled 

 inwards on the veins ; orbicular and reniform defined bj' black, the 

 former round, open below and with a curved mark below it ; post- 

 medial line indistinct, dentate, bent outwards below costa and 

 incurved below vein 4 to lower edge of reniform ; subterrainal line 

 represented by a series of small dentate black marks. Hind wing' 

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

 the underside white slightly tinged with purple and irrorated with 

 brown, a discoidal lunule and traces of a postmedial line. 



Hah. U.S.A., Colorado, Glenwood Springs, 1 5 • Exi^. 4& 

 millim. 



2440. Graptolitha oregonensis. (Plate CIII. fig. 7.) 



Litliophane oregoneiisis, Harv. Can. Ent. Tiii. p. 55 (1876) ; Smith, Cat. 

 Noct. N. Am. p. 228. 



S • Head and thorax violaceous whitish tinged with red-brown ; 

 frons with blackish bars at sides and above ; antennae white at 

 base ; tegulae Avith black medial line ; patagia with black outer 

 edge ; tibiae streaked with black, the tarsi banded with black ; 

 abdomen pale rufous. Uore wiug bluish white slightly tinged with 

 fuscous, the basal costal area whiter, the veins slightly streaked 

 with black ; a sinuous black streak below base of cell ; subbasal 

 line represented by a black point on costa; an oblique fuscous 

 streak across cell ; antemedial line represented by double oblique 

 strise from costa, angled outwards in cell, then almost obsolete ; 

 claviform slightly defined by black ; orbicular white defined by 

 black, upright elliptical and confluent with a mark below cell : 

 reniform white defined by black, its centre suffused with rufous ; 

 a blackish patch in cell between the stigmata ; a faint incurved 

 medial shade from cell to inner margin ; postmedial line obsolete ; 



