278 jStoctuidje. 



some white points on costa before the subterminal line, which is 

 represented by a series of small fuscous dentate marks angled out- 

 wards at vein 7 ; a terminal series of slight black striae. Hind 

 wing whitish uniformly suffused with pale rufous ; cilia whitish at 

 tips ; the underside white tinged Avith rufous and slightly irrorated 

 with brown, a large blackish discoidal lunule. 



Hah. U.S.A., Oregon, Colorado, California (5'aHj:)), 1 c? . Exp.4:Q 

 millim. 



Larva. Head testaceous, reticulate with greenish. Body uni- 

 formly cylindrical, green ; dorsal, subdorsal, and substigmal lines 

 narrow, broken, alike ; the substigmatai line may be spotted with 

 red. Tubercles white. Feet green. Peeds on oak. — H. G. D, 



2441. Graptolitha merci. 



Xylina merckii, Embr. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. i. p. 293, pi. 9. f. 6 (1832); 



Diip. Lep. Fr., Suppl. iii. p. 423, pi. 37. f. 4 ; Staucl. Oat. Lep. pal. 



p. 211. 

 Noctua ripagina, Geyer, Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 840 (1834). 

 Noctua simplex, Frr. Neue Beitr. iii. pi. 255. f. 1 (1839). 



Head and thorax grey mixed with fuscous ; tegulse with black 

 snedial line ; prothoracic crest tipped with rufous ; tibiae streaked 

 with black ; abdomen reddish grey-brown. Fore wing violaceous 

 grey irrorated and suffused with fuscous ; the veins streaked with 

 black ; a fine black streak below base of cell ; subbasal line repre- 

 sented by two oblique striaj from costa; antemedial line very strongly 

 angled outwards in the interspaces, in submediau fold and above 

 inner margin to the postmedial line, and inwards on the veins ; 

 reniform represented by a curved streak below end of cell ; post- 

 medial line strongly dentate, indistinct except below vein 2, bent 

 outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then strongly angled 

 inwards in submedian fold and outwards on vein 1 ; slight oblique 

 ■subterminal shades from below apex and vein 2. Hind wing grey- 

 brown with a slight reddish tinge ; cilia white at tips ; the under- 

 side whitish irrorated with brown, a discoidal spot and somewhat 

 dentate postmedial line. 



Hah. 8. France, 1 c? , 1 $ ; Corsica ; Switzerland, ? Valais ; 

 Hungary ; Bulgaria. Exp. 50 millim. 



Larva. Kirby, Butt. & Moths Eur. p. 250. 



Yellowisli green dotted with white ; the lines yellow. Food- 

 plant, Alder. 



*2442. Graptolitha itata. (Plate CIII. fig. 8.) 



Xylina itata. Smith, J. N.Y. Ent. Soc. vii. p. 231 (1899) ; Dyar, Cat. 

 Lep. N. Am. p. 170. 



5 . Head and thorax grey-white with slight dark irroration ; 

 abdomen pale brownish. Fore wing grey-white with slight dark 

 irroration, the markings almost obsolete, subbasal line absent ; 

 antemedial line excurved in cell, angled outwards in submedian 



