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changed to a chrysalis without making a cocoon. The chrysalis was also 

 green with a row of black dots on each side. The moth appeared August 

 loth." According to a MS. drawing of Abbot's, the body is very slender and 

 cylindrical, smooth, somewhat thickened on the end of the abdomen. Head 

 no wider than the body; it is reddish, while the body is grass-green, with 

 no* markings. Food-plant. Heleni/wm autumnale. 



NEMORIA Hiibner. Plate 4. figs. 8, 8a. 



Nemoria Hiilm.. Verz., 285, 1818. 



Geometra Treits. (in part), Schm. Eur., v, 430, 1825. 



Hi miiliiii Hii[>. (in part), Lep. Prance, viii (iv), 233, 1829. 



Geometra Boisd., Gen. Ind., 179, 18-10. 



Chloroehroma Dap., Cat., 224, 1844. 



Geometra H.-Scli , Schiu. Km-., iii, 7, 1S-I7. 



Wemoria Lcderer, Verb. Bot. Zool. Ges. Wieu, 189, 1853. 



Guen. (in part), Phal., i. 345, 1857. 



Walk, (in part), List Lep. Het. Br. Mas., xxii, 531, 1861. 



Head rather wide in front, wider than in Eucrostis, not narrowing much 

 in front. Palpi slenderer than in Eucrostis, a little upCurved, passing a little 

 beyond the front. Male antennae simple. Fore wings triangular; costa 

 regularly arched ; apex slightly produced, acute. Hind wings distinctly 

 angled on the outer edge. In the venation, it only differs from Eucrostis 'm 

 the subcostal cell being always closed. Hind legs long and slender; tarsia 

 little more than half as long as the tibia 1 ; a single pair of tibial spurs. 

 Abdomen long and slender, ending in a regular pencil of hairs. Coloration 

 green. 



This pretty genus differs from Eucrostis, with which some of the species 

 have been confounded, by the angular hind wings and the simple antennas. 

 The species are of small size, delicate and graceful, and usually green, or 

 green with an ochreous tinge and reddish fringe. The species Hy in June 

 in open fields near pine-woods. 



Synopsis of the Species. 



Yellow above ami beneath - v - tubcroceata. 



Dull sea-green ; bind wings with lino curved -V. gratata. 



Larger than gratata, with line on bind wing bent rectangularly .V. pisiaciata. 



Nemokia subcroceata Walker. Plate 10, fig. 78. 



Nemoria subcrocata Walk., List Lep. Het. Br. Mns., xxvi, 1557, lsr,-.>. 

 Nemoria incertata Walk.. last Lep. Het. Br. Mns. xxvi, l.v.T. 1862. 



5 $ and 1 9. — Shape of the wings as in N. gratata. Bright ochreous, 

 including the body and wings, antenna' and legs. Head white on the 



