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This species is readily known by its wings being green along the costal 

 edge and at base, and by its rather small size, and the numerous lines on the 

 fore wings, often represented by dark dots. 



Lobophora vernata Packard. Plate 8, fig. 13. 



Eupithecia vernata Pack., Fifth Rep. Peab. Acad. Sc, 57, 1873. 



3 S and 3 9. — Head whitish, snow-white on edge of front,- with a black 

 hair-line just below the antenna;. Palpi white beneath, second joint black, 

 third white. Body and wings pale-whitish cinereous. Fore wings much 

 sharper at the apex than in L. anguilitieata ; basal half of fore wings nearly 

 white, with a black, linear, basal line, curved and angulated outward strongly 

 on the median space, and sinuated inward on the submediau interspace; a 

 black linear dot, often connecting with a black streak on the median vein ; a 

 tew brownish and yellowish scales in the middle of the wing; veins irregu- 

 larly spotted with white and black; an outer broadly sinuate line, very 

 regularly incurved below the median vein, and, in front of that, going nearly 

 straight to the costa, and touching the hind end of the discal spot; from this 

 line proceed linear black streaks along the veins, especially marked on the 

 median branches, which become interrupted toward the outer edge ; the line 

 is broadly and diffusely shaded with pale smoke-brown externally, darker 

 next the line; beyond is a geminate, sinuous line of brown scales, partially 

 obsolete below the median vein, and especially marked on the costa and in 

 the extradiscal space ; a marginal row of geminate, black dots. Hind wings 

 smoky-white, with no markings; fringe white, with a smoky-brown line; 

 beneath pale-white ; the fore wing with the outer curved line faintly marked, 

 and a little beyond intervenular, black dots; fringe pale-whitish. Hind wings 

 dusky. Fore legs dark, ringed with white 



Length of body, 0.45; of fore wing, 0.60; expanse of wings, 1.30 inches. 



Montreal, Canada (Lyman); Brunswick, Me. (Packard); Brookline, 

 Mass., April 28-May 29 (Shurtleff) ; New York (Grote); Albany, N. Y. 

 (Lintner) ; Philadelphia, Pa. (Ent. Soc). 



One of the earliest insects that Hies, appearing in April in Maine, before 

 the snow is off. It is easily known by its large size, its white, acute wings, 

 with the distinct, linear, black, sinuate' lines, the outer shaded diffusely with 

 light-brown, and by the white and black spots and st rcaks on the veins and 



