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THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



median. Hind wings: costal cell of good size, cubital cell large; the 

 transverse cubital nervure set well back, making the median cell to end 

 with an angle. Legs : first pair small, third pair much larger than either 

 the first or the second ; coxae and trochanters light red ; femora light red 

 with pale yellow patches at the knees, the last pair much enlarged and 

 curved like a bill-hook; tibiae white, very hairy ; in the second pair of legs 

 the tibiie have a black patch at the bottom, and in the third pair a black 

 patch both at top and bottom ; tibial spur large and white ; tarsi white, 

 hairy, the lower half of last joint, and claws black. Abdomen : Attached 



to thorax by a short petiole 

 slightly curving upward, clavate, 

 y-jointed, entirely black, punc- 

 tured and pubescent. 



I raised this very beautiful in- 

 sect (Fig. 7, greatly enlarged) last 

 year from Aferoptera pravella, 

 Grote, a leaf-crumpler on the 

 Sumach. Dr. Ashmead says of 

 it : " Ajiiesoiytiis, n. sp. — Quite 

 different from the other species 

 described in our fauna, which 

 comes from Texas." I have deposited a type of the species in the 

 National Museum at Washington. 



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Fiu. 7. 



A REVIEW OF OUR GEOMETRID CLASSIFICATION. 



BV RICHARD F. PEARSALL, BROOKLYN, N. Y. 



Since any work in this group must of necessity be a review of that 

 done by the late Dr. Geo. D. Hulst, I want to state in this beginning of 

 mine, that it is not to be regarded as a criticism. 



Dr. Hulst made (for him) some curious errors, which will be noted 

 later on, but the immense work he did in untangling the synonymy of this 

 variable group, and in his two trips across the ocean to study the types, 

 cannot be overestimated, and by it mine is rendered easy. 



Not long since I made an attempt to rearrange my collection of 

 Georaetridae in accordance with Dr. Hulst's classification of the group as 

 given in Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, Vol. 23, 1896, which was accepted as an 

 authority, and followed without many changes by Dr. Dyar in his recent 

 " List." Dr. Hulst divides the group into two great families, Geometrinse 

 and Ennominai, based upon the development or absence of vein 5 in the 



July, 1904. 



