155 



Rheumaptera parinotata Packard. Plate 8, fig. 56. 



Cidaria parinotata Zeller !!!. Verb. Bot. Zool. Ges. Wieu, xxii. 495, 1872. 



2 $ and 1 9. — This peculiar s|iciios is structurally much like II. basali- 

 ata, but with a decided green hue on the fore wings. The body and fore 

 wings fawn-ash, with a greenish tinge on the thorax. Fore, wings with a 

 basal blackish band, formed of two wavy, parallel, approximate, black lines; 

 the band curves regularly outward; beyond are three fawn-colored lines, and 

 slill beyond a broad, fawn-colored band, becoming greenish toward the costa; 

 this band is enclosed between two black zigzag lines, which sometimes become 

 diffused toward the inner edge and unite, forming a black instead of fawn- 

 colored band; this band either touches or is quite remote on the inner edge, 

 with a similar band, but twice as broad, beyond the middle of the wing; 

 between the two bands is situated a distinct discal dot; near the outer edge 

 of the wing, in the extradiscal space, are two conspicuous, parallel, short, 

 longitudinal, black lines, somewhat like exclamation-marks ; the marginal 

 black marks are very distinct, much as in K. basaUata. The hind wings are 

 dusky, with the outer edge decidedly dusky, and with a faintly diffuse dusky 

 extradiscal line. 



Length of body, <?, 0.40-0.42, 9, 0.45; of fore wing, 3, 0.48-0.50, 9, 

 0.55 ; expanse of wings, 0.95-1.10 inches. ■ 



Waco, Tex., November 5, December 5 (Belfrage, Mus. Peab. Acad. Sc,); 

 Dallas, Tex. (Boll., Mus. Comp. Zool.). 



The green fore wings and the two black, parallel, twin slashes in the 

 extradiscal space of the fore wing separate this species from any other. 

 Zeller remarks that it is related to Cidaria didyiiuda (Linn.). 



One of my specimens is tin; type of Professor Zeller, received from the 

 Museum of Comparative Zoology. 



Kbeumaptera fluctuata Packard. Plate 8, figs. 71, 72. 



Pkalwna-Geometra fluctuata Linn., Fauna Svecica, 859, 1746; Syst. Nat., ed. x, 5:27, 1758. 

 ■■ Geometra fluctuata Hiibu., Schm. Eur., tali. I-, 249, 1796." 



" Haw.,Lep. Brit. 333, 1803-29." 

 Plemyria fluctuata Hiibu., Verz., 327, 1S1*. 

 Zerene fluctuata Treks., Schm. Eur., vi (ii), 21'J, 1828. 

 Cidaria fluctuata Steph., Kotaencl. Br. Ins., 44, 1829. 

 Melanthia fluctuata Dup., Lcp. France, viii (v), 265, pi. 189, fig. :!. 1830. 

 Cidaria fluctuata Steph., 111., iii, 219, 1831. • 



Melanthia fluctuaria Boiscl.,Gen. Intl., 217, 1840, 

 Larentia fluciuaria H.-Seh., Schm. Eur., iii. 154, 1847. 



