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This beautiful species may be at once known by the four black, raised, 

 discal <lots and black-tipped femora, as well as by the broad white bands and 

 brown-mottled base of costa. It, varies much in size, the larger individuals 

 being larger than those of any other species of this subfamily. 



The Californian examples are much larger, with slightly more pointed 

 fore wings than in eastern examples; the fore wings of the largest of the two 

 specimens measuring 0.75 inch, the largest eastern example (from New York) 

 measuring 0.63 inch in length. Except the differences in size. I do not see 

 any others to warrant a specific separation. The Californian examples 

 closely resemble those from Texas, the lines being inclined to be straighter 

 and less diffuse, and with less of a yellowish tinge, to the wing than in 

 examples from the Northern States. In the shape of the wings, the Texan 

 examples closely approach the Californian ones, and thus differ in a corre- 

 sponding degree from individuals from Alabama and the Middle and Northern 

 States (Alleghanian fauna). 



Desiderata. 



Geometra inclusaria Walk., List Lep. Het. Br. Mus., xxii, 508, 1861. — 

 "Male and female. Bright green. Body beneath and abdomen white. Head 

 rosy; vertex white. Palpi porrcct, extending a little beyond the head; third 

 joint conical, not more than one-fourth of the length of the second. Antennae 

 slightly pectinated to two-thirds of the length. Hind tibiee with four long 

 spurs. Wings ample, with a black discal point, and with indistinct interior 

 and exterior denticulated whitish lines; marginal line crimson; fringe yel- 

 lowish white. Fore wings acute; costa white; exterior border hardly convex, 

 moderately oblicpie. Hind wings extending beyond the abdomen. 



"Length of the body 4-44 lines; of the wings 11-12 lines. 



" St. John's Bluff, East Florida." 



This is a valid species, and distinct from G. iridaria. 



Geometra mimicata Walk., List Lep. Het. Br. Mus., xxxv, 1601, 1866. — 

 "Female. Bright green. Head, palpi, body beneath, and legs white. Palpi 

 slender, decumbent, nearly as long as the breadth of the head; third joint as 

 Ion"- as the second. Abdomen white, sreen toward the base, much shorter 

 than the interior border of the hind wings. Wings broad, with two slender 

 white lines; first line antemedial, nearly straight ; second postmedial, undu- 



