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nearly equally curved. Hind legs with the tibiae very long, swollen ; the tarsi 

 one-half as lung as the tibiae. Coloration: ochreous-brown, with a common 

 onier line bent at right angles just before reaching the cost a of the lure wings, 

 hill disappearing on the costa of the hind wings. 



The species. of this genus are much smaller than those of Eutrapela, and 

 may he recognized by the very falcate fore wings, while the hind wings are 

 rounded The antennae are very heavily pectinated, the branches extending 

 (though forming simply long tubercles) to the extreme tip. The hind legs 

 are much as in Eutrapela, but the tarsi are a little longer. From Caberodes 

 it differs in the falcate fore wings and more heavily pectinated antennae. 



Larva and pupa. — Ramiform, the body provided with a number of tuber- 

 cles, thus resembling the twigs of the tree on which it feeds. The head is 

 no wider than the body, which increases in thickness toward the end of the 

 body. Pupa of the usual conical form, rather thick. 



Synopsis of the Species. 



Fore wings more acute tbau in the others : dark, coarsely speckled D. rants. 



Fawn-brown, with a light, common, extradiscal line D. puber. 



Drici'Anodes varus Grote and .Robinson. Plate 12, figs. 36, 37. 



Drepanodes varus Grote and Robinson!!!, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y., viii, pi. 15 A, fig. 2, 9 , 1867. 

 Drepanodes aquosus Grote and Robinson!!!, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y., viii, pi. 15 A, rig. 3, 9 , 1867. 

 Drepanodes sesqnilinea Grote!!!, Can. Eut. ii, 114, 1870. 

 Drepanodes juniperaria Pack., First Rep. Ins. Mass., 22, pi. 1, rigs. i. 5, 1871. 



<$ — Antennae broadly pectinated ; head, body, and wings uniformly clear 

 ochreous, with scattered minute dark speckles; inner line deep ochreous, a little 

 diffuse, curved irregularly, somewhat angulated opposite the discal dot, which 

 it nearly touches, beyond which it curves straight on the costa; below the angle, 

 it is regularly curved and sometimes sinuate. It is dark ochreous, paler 

 without; the outer line is slightly curved inward, and toward the tip bent 

 back at right angles on the costa, blackish externally, shaded broadly with 

 dark ochraceous within. Between the two lines the wing is clear as usual. 

 Discal dot black, small. Wing clear beyond the outer line. Toward the 

 inner angle, there are three rounded, nebulose, dark spots, of which the 

 middle one is the largest. Hind wings like the fore wings, with a single, broad, 

 straight line; discal dot very distinct; a diffuse cloud, scarcely divided into 

 distinct spots, near the angle; beyond the lino, the strigae are sparingly scat- 

 tered. Fringe with a reddish tinge. Beneath paler, especially on the sec- 

 ondaries. The common line faintly re-appears; slightly reddish on hind wings, 

 .nid blackish on fore wings; discal dot very distinct, with scattered fine strigae. 



