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respect, they are as in Eupithecia. Hind legs rather long; tarsi nearly as 

 long as the tibiae. Abdomen, in the male, much thicker and less tufted than 

 usual. Coloration : gray wood-color, with prominent dark lines enclosing a 

 pale median band; the outer with large teeth in the subcostal and again in 

 the median region of the wing; a rather prominent, scalloped, dark line on 

 the hind wings. 



Differs from the neighboring genera Rheumaptera and Ochyria in the 

 broader head, short palpi, the tufted vertex, the broader fore wings, and more 

 produced hind wings, as well as the stouter abdomen ami the venation. It is, 

 in the general shape of the wings, closely similar to Rheumaptera, but, in 

 coloration, is more likely to be confounded with Ochyria. Guene'e says that, 

 in some European species the antennas are filiform. 



Anticlea vasiliata Guenec. Plate 9, tig. 12. 



Antivlea vasiliata Guen., Phal., ii, 407, 1857. 



Walk., List Lep. Het. Br. Mils., xxv, 1303, 1S0U. 



1 $ and '2 9. — Of a dark-brown, with dark olivaceous hue, and black- 

 ish-brown bands and lines on the fore wings. Head with a blackish-brown 

 transverse line below the insertion of the antennae, and on the anterior edge 

 of the front blackish-brown. Male antennae single, very finely ciliated. Palpi 

 short; terminal joint short, projecting but slightly beyond the front of the 

 head, tipped with blackish-brown. Fore wings crossed by three well-marked 

 blackish bands, whitish, the basal conspicuous, heavy, blackish externally, 

 with a light inner line, and a mesial still fainter line ; the band is slightly 

 concave externally, on the outer edge nearly straight and scalloped, there 

 being two distinct scallops in front of and behind the median vein ; two faint 

 brown lines between the basal and median bauds, the space being faintly 

 tinged with purplish; the median band very distinct, blackish-brown, the 

 inner side heavier, blacker than the outer, with a faint, brown, median line; 

 on the inner side, the band is suddenly curved inward between the median 

 and submedian veins; externally, the band curves outward just above the 

 median vein, otherwise it is straight ; in the middle of the wing, a clear light 

 space, nearly twice the width of the median band ; sometimes the space is 

 almost white; it encloses a distinct discal dot; beyond the clear median 

 space is a light-brown space, tinged with dark olive-green, of the same width 

 as the median space, its inner edge dentate and scalloped, being parallel with 



