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chocolate mixed with gray and a few black scales. I think his figures were 

 taken from a rubbed specimen. My single female, collected by Mr. Grote in 

 Alabama, is in a perfectly fresh state. Gruende also states thai beneath the 

 fore wings are very pale ochreous-gray. His drawing is less characteristic 

 than Hiibner's, especially as regards the outlines of the wings; but still, 

 knowing how much rubbed specimens of this genus differ from those quite 

 fresh, I .should hesitate long before regarding my specimen as distinct from 

 Hiibner's species. My S. minorata is closely allied to this species in the cut 

 of the wings and style of marking, but differs in its whitish-ochraceous 

 under side and in wanting the broad fawn-colored baud on the hind wings, 

 and in other respects, besides its diminutive size. 



Desiderata. 



Geometra bicolorata Fabr., Supp., 149, 150 (Macaria bicolorata Guen.). 

 Virginia. Guenee remarks: "Bien que je n'aie pas vu cette Ge'ometre, et 

 que je regarde comme tres-delicat de dccrire des especes sur le texte de 

 Fabricius, la place de celle-si me semble tellement precise, que je derogerai 

 cette fois a mes habitudes. 



"Elle est evidemnient tres-voisine de Praatomata et Distribuaria, mais 

 elle doit avoir une large bordure brune, et I'dchancrure teintee de la meme 

 couleur; trois taches costales, dont la derniere oblique et plus grosse. Les 

 inferieures ont aussi une bande brune traverse'e par dva lignes ondees, plus 

 foncees." 



Macaria contemptata Guen., Phal. ii, 86, 1857.— -"27 mm . Ailes dentees, 

 d'un gris-clair, sa poudre - de brunatre, avep les dessins noi nitres et un feston 

 terminal, uoir, decoupant les dents. Eigne commune droite, suivie de dessins 

 confus et nebuleiix, et precedee, surtout aux inferieures. d'une ombre parallele, 

 passant au-dessus d'un point cellulaire 1 > i < - i i noir. Supe'rieures arrondies 

 et sans coude au bord terminal, ayant a la cote, pres de l'apex, une liture 

 noir.1t re, cclairce de blanc exterieurement. Inferieures aussi dentes que chez 

 ^Estimaria, mais a coude. a peine sensible. Dessous blanehatre, strie et 

 nuage* de gris qui \ forme des bandes, surtout aux inferieures. 

 "Amerique septentrionale. \hi <?, une 9. Coll. (in." 

 I saw the type-specimen of this species in M. GueneVs collection, and 

 think it is distinct from any species known to me. 



