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B. Species larger, with a triangular dark patch under the oblique 



apical streak: 



Pale-ash fore wiugs,. with two whitish bauds; middle band scarcely project- 

 ing ; tip of male abdomen inucronate P. eunigerata. 



Brownish-ash, with distinct tan-brown bands; subapical patch large and 

 distinct; scallops of outer edge of discal Hue angular and large, 

 especially those of the three-toothed projection P. prunata. 



C. Apex very square ; fore wings with the outer edge of middle 



line running straight out from costa, with no scallops, and 

 forming a more or less falcate angle: 



a. Black -brow n, with clear-white lines, forming black squares and triangles; thorax 



striped with white: 



Size small; angle much rounded; no costo-apical triangle P. albolineata. 



Large; augle acute, with costo-apical triangle and oblong patches within.. P. atrocolorata. 



b. Large; bright ochreous-yellow : 



A subapical deep-ochreous patch, augle rouuded ; middle band broad, unin- 

 terrupted, edged with white P. tcstata. 



Larger than testata ; apex more poiuted; a subapical dark patch; middle 



baud broad, dark on the sides ; a broad dark basal baud P. populate. 



Outer angle of middle baud very acutely falcate, nearly reaching outer edge 

 of wiug ; lines brown, linear, forming an oblong area in inner third of 

 the wing, and a triangular area on middle of inner edge of wing P. diversilincala. 



Pacific. 



Diminutive ; inner edge of middle band acutely bent toward middle of wing. P. leoninata. 

 Larger; inuer side of middle band straight; both wings bright-ochreous 



beneath P. mancipata. 



Wings not augulated, yellow, with a broad marginal shade, and a subtrian- 



gular spot on the hind wings P. flavicata. 



Peteophora truncata Packard. Plate 8, figs. 38, 39, 40. 



" Geometra truncata Hufn., Berl. M., iv, 602, 625, 1769." 



" Geometra centumnotata Schultz, Naturf., vi, 93, iv, 4, 1775." 



" Geometra russata Den. et Schift'., Verz., 113, 1776." 



"Borkh., Eur. Schm., v, 405, 1794." 



" Hiibn., Eur. Schm., 305, 1796." 

 Dijsstroma russata Hiibn., Verz., 333, 1818. 

 Cidaria russata Treits., Schm. Eur., vi (ii), 189, 1828. 



Dup., Lep. France, viii (v), 324, pi. 193, fig. 4, 1830. 

 Pbhjphami centumnotata Steph., 111., iii, 230, 1831. 

 Cidaria russaria Boisd., Gen. Ind., 214, 1840. 

 Larentia russaria H.-Scb., Schm. Eur., iii, 172, fig. 189, 1847. 

 Polijphasia russata Steph., Cat. Br. Lep., 196, 1850. 

 Cidaria russata Guen., Phal.. ii, 464, 1^57. 



Walk., List Lep. Br. Mus., xxv, 1380, 1862. 

 Cidaria brunneata Pack., Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., xi, 17, 1867. 



10 <? and 6 ?. — Palpi long; fore wings much produced toward the acute 

 apex; the costa being rather more curved than usual toward the apex. Abdo- 

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