Aplodes brunnearia, up. nov. Plate 10, fig. 88. 



2 i. — Of the size of A. mimosaria, bul with the wings slightly more 

 bent, particularly the hinder pair, and the apex of the fore winirs more obtuse. 

 Body and wings light brown. Head while on the vertex; in front, brown, 

 like the rest of the body. The white bands are arranged much as in A. 

 mimosaria, (here being two white lines common to both wings, the inner wavy 

 and fading away near the cOsta, the outer being slightly oblique and a little 

 wavy. On the hind wings, the outer line is a little broader than m ?ni?nosaria, 

 but bent in the middle at the same angle; a narrow, marginal, dark-brown 

 line, interrupted by the venules; fringe long and silky. Beneath, paler than 

 above, with a very faint ochreous tinge on the costa ; the lines are faintly 

 reproduced. 



Length of body, 9, 0.33-0.43; of fore wing, ?, 0.43-0 53; expanse of 

 .wings, 1 00 inch. 



West Virginia, April 18 (T. L. Mead); Central Missouri, May 7 

 ■ (Riley); Dallas, Texas (Boll, Mus. Peab. Acad. Sc). 



This differs from all the other species of this genus in being pale brown, 

 and is a remarkable exception to the prevalent mode of coloration in the 

 Geometrinm. It differs from A. mimosaria in the blunter apex of the fore 

 wings, the broader lines, and the presence of a dark, marginal, interrupted 

 line. 



Larva. — Body short and thick, with two small tubercles on the thoracic 

 segments; four large triangular flaps on the median rings, and one on the 

 end of the body. Pale brown, slashed with a darker tint. Pupa slender, 

 pale brown. Food-plant Juglans nigra (described from Abbot's MS. 

 drawings). This is certainly the larva of brunnearia ; but since the male is 

 represented by Abbot as green, and scarcely distinguishable from A. rubri- 

 fronlaria, it may prove to lie the same larva as that described by Mr. Scud- 

 der, and brunnearia may prove to be the female of this or a closely-allied 

 speeies, though what I have described as the females of rubrifrontaria seem 

 to lie such. Fig. 47, plate 1.'!, represents the male of Abbot's drawing. 



Aplodes mimosaria Guenc'e. Plate 10, fig. 89. 



Aplochs mimosaria Guen.!, Pbal., i, :iTT. 1857, 



Walk., List Lep. Het. Br. Mus., xxii, 586, 1861. 

 Iodis traclaria Walk.!!! (fidt Grote), List Ley. Het. Br. Mus., xxii, 540, 1861. 

 nipparchisttte venuatus Walsh! (jidi Rilei I, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., ix, 301, 1834. 



4 t? and 9. — A rather large species, with the antenna' moderately well 



