GRAPTA IV. 
GRAPTA INTERROGA TIGRIS. 
Grapta Interrogationis, Fabricius. 
Yar. Umbrosa, Lintner, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. 1869, p. 318; 1870, p. 197. 
Interrogationis , Fabr. 9 , Suppl. p. 424. Godart, Enc. Metb. IX, p. 302. Harris, Ins. Mass. Ed. 
1852, p. 298, (text, not plate.) 
C aureum, Cramer, % , pi. 19. Fab. % , Sp. Ins. p. 94 ; Ent. Syst. p. 78. Abbot & Smith, £ _ 
Ins. Ga. pi. 11. Hiibner, Exot. Schmett. II, % 9 ■ Bois. & Lee. % , pi. 51. 
Yar. Fabricii, Edwards, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. 1870, p. 5. 
Interrogationis, Harris, 9 , Ins. Mass. Ed. 1852, plate. Lintner, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. 1869, p. 
315,1870, p. 197. 
INTERROGATIONIS, yar. UMBROSA. 
Form alike in both sexes, primaries slightly falcated, little excised; tail prom- 
inent, broad at base, tapering; anal angle slightly or not at all produced. 
Male. Expands 2.6 inches. 
Upper side fulvous, marked and spotted with black; primaries have a broad, 
black marginal border, somewhat suffused with ferruginous at the upper part of the 
incision on hind margin and next inner angle; upon the disk five rounded spots 
disposed in a right angle, the two smallest being in cell and the others in the in- 
terspaces; between the lower two of these last, transverse to them, two small spots 
or patches of scales; another in lower discoidal interspace, and a large subquadrate 
spot from the costa covering the arc; next the marginal border on costa a large 
patch suffused with ferruginous and a smaller one on inner margin. Secondaries 
have the outer two-thirds overlaid with black, most dense behind the cell, but 
towards outer angle and on disk showing the fulvous $ub-color, into which the 
black shade gradually fades and disappears towards base; on costal margin a deep 
black duplex spot, and a small spot on arc; tail ashy-grey, marginal border lightly 
touched with same hue, and sometimes the tips of the nervules on primaries; 
fringes white in the emarginations, fuscous at the nervules. 
Under side variegated with ferruginous, brown, olivaceous and more or less 
suffused with purple; the basal third limited by an irregular ferruginous, partly 
olivaceous band, within which the ground is yellow-brown streaked with ferrugi- 
nous; outside the band, primaries have a narrow belt of yellow-brown, beyond 
which the colors are brown and olivaceous; a lilac patch near inner angle, and a 
large sub-apical one on costa enclosing a patch of whitish; secondaries olivaceous 
