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color, hardly any two specimens being absolutely identical as evidenced 

 by a series of over fifty specimens before the authors mainly from 

 New York, Pennsylvania and Massachusetts, mostly obtained thru the 

 kindness of Messrs. Merrick, Doll, and Engelhardt. 



Tentatively, it appears best to hold the names ciibilis, borealis, 

 fasciata and stigma as forms of a variable species which must take 

 the name styracis. 



Graptolitha contra sp. nov. 



Head and thorax purplish brown sprinkled with fuscous. Thoracic tu fl- 

 ings rich rufous-brown, conspicuously divided on the prothorax. Abdomen 

 dull greyish-brown with conspicuous black dorsal tufts larger than in allied 

 species. Primaries: ground color violaceous-grey tinged with rufous-brown, 

 basal line obsolete ; t. a. line black, double, more or less obsolescent, produced 

 to long points in submedian fold and below vein 1 ; orbicular, claviform and 

 reniform obsolete ; t. p. line obsolescent thruout costo-radial region, only dis- 

 tinct as an inwardly oblique mark between vein 2 and the submedian fold 

 where it is double with an included whitish space ; this dash is followed by 

 a distinct, contrasting, brownish- fuscous blotch, apparently not a part of the 

 s. t. shade which is faintly indicated by rufous-brown shadings oblique inwardly 

 from below the apex, subparallel to the outer margin below vein 4 ; a terminal 

 line of dark brownish dots between the veins which are lined with a few fuscous 

 scales; fringe violaceous-grey strongly marked by rufous-brown. Secondaries: 

 whitish, powdered with fuscous ; veins darker, marked by a few fuscous scales, 

 discal spot a fuscous blotch. Beneath : whitish ; primaries with some fuscous 

 in cell and along veins, with a fuscous discal blotch, a few terminal small 

 fuscous points which tend to be produced onto the fringe, checkering it; sec- 

 ondaries with a very few scattered fuscous scales mostly marking the veins, 

 and tending to form a faint fuscous terminal line, a discal fuscous blotch; 

 fringe white. 



Expanse: 47 mm. 



Apparently most closely allied to gausapata Grote but distinct 

 from all described species by the dash formed by the t. p. line with its 

 following dark blotch. 



Type locality: Paradise, Cochise Co., Ariz. 



Number and sexes of types: Holotype ?, 1-7 May. 



PCONISTRA ADULTA Gn. 



, A.bbot, Ms. pi. , . 



1852, Gn., Spec. Gen., VII, Noct., Ill, 393, (larva), Cerastis. 

 1860, Morris, Cat. Lep., p. 41, Cerastis. 



