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Clypcus black. Prothoracic lobes wiiii white scales and long black biistles. 

 Mesothorax covered with creamy white spindle-shaped scales on a bl ck 

 background ; scales arranged more thickly on the lateral areas ; a numbtr 

 of black bristles scattered over the mesothorax, especially abimdant on the 

 postero-lateral areas. Pleura with silvery scales and golden hairs. 

 Scutellum with white scales and a median and two lateral groups of 

 numerous long black bristles. Metathorax black. 



Abdomen violet, basal segment with pearly-white scales and golden 

 bristles; next five segments with lateral apical white-scaled areas; numerous 

 black hairs scattered over the segments. Venter white scaled, with narrow 

 basal bands of violet scales. Legs with metallic violet reflections, base 

 and most of the venter of femora yellow scaled; knee spot white, small; 

 third hind tarsus completely white excejJt a few apical black bristles. 

 Ungues all equal and uniserrate. Wings with the first submarginal cell a 

 little longer and nearly as broad as the second posterior cell, its stem the 

 same length as the cell ; stem of the second posterior about as long as the 

 cell ; halteres with stem and knob pale yellow. Length 4.5 mm. 



Observations. — Described from four $ 's taken on a horse at the foot 

 of the Red Hills, 51^ miles along the Molynes Road, Kingston, Jamaica, 

 early in July, 1905. Found in association \\\\.\\\\-\&hx'\\\\B.\\t. /. discnicians, 

 Walker. It is apparently closely allied to /. Arribalzagce., Giles, from 

 which it may be distinguished by its wing venation, scutellar bristles and 

 white third hind tarsus. 



WHAT IS EUCHCECA COMPTARIA, WALKER? 



RY GEORGE W. T.AVLOR, WELLINGTON, B. C. 



In 1874 Dr. Packard' described two nearly allied species of 

 Geometrid moths, one as Larentia duodecimlmeata, the types being 

 from California, and the other as Larentia perliiieata, from New York. 

 There can be no doubt, I think, as to the insect he had before him when 

 describing perlineata. That species seems to be a distinct and easily 

 recognized one, although there is a pretty and not uncommon variety of it 

 which is sometimes confused with Enchceca lucata by those who are not 

 very familiar with this group of moths. 



We cannot so readily determine what the type of 12-Hneata was^ 

 because there are two species very similar in outward appearance, though 

 belonging, it would seem, to different genera, occurring in California, v/hence 



I. Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., X\T, 19, 1874. 

 December, 1905. 



