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and it is certainly worth while to make further experiments in 

 that line of work. 



In the last two summers I could not obtain a pair of Junonia 

 for breeding purposes as this butterfly is not very abundant 

 near Los Angeles. 



Geometrid Notes. 

 By JOHN A. GROSSBECK. 



The following brief notes indicate changes in the standing 

 of various Geometrids and are recorded in the belief that they 

 will be of some value to others working in the group : 



Sciagraphia orillata, now placed as the synonym to 5". con- 

 tinuata, is a species strictly indigenous to the Western States, 

 while continuata is an Eastern species whose Western limit 

 probably does not extend beyond the Mississippi River in the 

 north and the Rocky Mountains in the south. The two species 

 may be separated at a glance by the course of the extradiscal 

 line, which in orillata is evenly incurved below vein M T while, 

 in continuata it is sinuous below this vein. Also in orillata this 

 line is obsolete or only faintly indicated immediately above M t 

 while in continuata there is no appreciable attenuation at this 

 point. Further, in orillata the intradiscal line vanishes within 

 and above the cell, and in continuata is pronounced and un- 

 broken from the costa to the inner margin ; also, this line is 

 much more oblique in the former species. Superficially, espe- 

 cially when viewed in series, the two species are exceedingly 

 unlike each other, and indeed there are two valid species whose 

 position is directly between them. 



The synonyms of the two species divide as follows : 

 Sciagraphia continuata Walk. 



strigularia Walk. 

 Sciagraphia orillata Walk. 



= excurvata Pack. 

 - curvata Grote. 

 = cruciata Grote. 



Packard's figure, Monograph pi. ix, f. 75, is a good repre- 

 sentation of S. continnata. 



