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Type. No. 11702, U. S. National Museum. 



A large species, the wings bordered with rosy. The male 

 has the hind tibiae enlarged and with a strong groove on the 

 inner side, but there is no hair-pencil in it. In the three males 

 the black lines on the wings vary somewhat in width. 



Selidosema aethalodaria, n. sp. 



Dark purplish gray, the lines black, oblique; inner line from near 

 middle of costa, angled subcostally, running to inner margin near 

 base; discal dot black; outer line curved above, then straight and 

 oblique, reaching inner margin at about the middle; subterminal line 

 whitish, indistinct, stronger and wavy in the female. Hind wing more 

 grayish, except on inner margin crossed by two faint dark lines, den- 

 ticulate on the veins and traces of two beyond these at anal angle, 

 these two outer lines continued farther in the female than in the 

 male. Expanse, male 23 mm., female 22 mm. 



Four males, two females, San Diego, Cal. (G. H. Field), 

 Bat, June 30 ; Thyce Camp, July i ; Pine Valley, July 5 ; 

 Descanso, July 7. 



Type. No. 11701, U. S. National Museum. 



A small species resembling 5. urightiaria Hulst, but without 

 the scalloped subterminal line. 



Subfamily GEOMETRIN^:. 

 Anaplodes delicataria, n. sp. 



Palpi and front deep red, a white line between the antennae, followed 

 by a narrow red line, the nape green. Thorax green. Abdomen green 

 dorsally, white below, the male without red, the female with a few 

 red scales subdorsally, towards the tip. Wings shaped as in pistacearia 

 Packard, delicate green, marked with long, fine, white striations; two 

 lines on both wings, slender, not contrasted, slightly flexuous; costa 

 narrowly and the fringe of both wings red, fading to yellow at the 

 base of the fringe. Beneath silky whitish, the green showing faintly. 

 Expanse, 20 to 21 mm. Fore legs red, middle legs with red on the 

 outside, hind legs white. In the male the end of the hind tibia projects 

 beyond the end of the first tarsal joint, the tibia is enlarged, flattened 

 on the upper side, slightly grooved on the inner side, but without hair- 

 pencil. Antennae white, shortly bipectinate in the male, simple in the 

 female. 



Two males, one female, San Diego, Cal., July 23, 29, October 

 9 (G. H. Field). 



Type. No. 11703, U. S. National Museum. 



