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hind tibiiB dissimilar, the outer is slender and the inner pectinate on its 

 inner margin. Body beneath, especially the abdominal segments, densely 

 hairy. 



Length, 7 mm. 



Millwood, Fresno Co., California. One specimen collected by my 

 brother. 



The more elongate form, the short, strongly-widening middle and 

 hind tibiae, the spinous hind trochanters, the elytra without strise, and the 

 strongly-reflexed or rather strongly-thickened apical margin of clypeus 

 will readily distinguish this from any of the described species ; it is also 

 remarkable by having one spur of both the middle and hind tibiae pectinate. 



This species may require a new genus, but without dissection it was 

 impossible to find characters strong enough for such a course, and till 

 more material is available it is best placed in Ochod(sns, apparently 

 possessing the characters required for this genus. 



NEW SPECIES OF GEOMETRID.E. 



BY JOHN A. GROSSBECK, NEW BRUNSWICK, N. J. 



Stenaspilates flavisaria, new species. — $ . Expanse, 33-3S mm. 

 Head, thorax and abdomen yellowish-white. Ground colour of wings 

 yellowish-white, in some specimens washed with a fawn-brown tint. 

 Primaries with a dark-ochreous intradiscal line crossing one-third from the 

 base, curved broadly outward from costa, then bisinuous to inner 

 margin. Extradiscal line brown, bounded outwardly by a narrow white 

 line, crossing at the outer third, with a gentle outward and inward curve 

 to cubitus 2, then with a sharp outward semicircle, and another short 

 curve to inner margin. The basal area is more or less shaded by pale 

 brown ochreous, most obvious toward the base of the inner margin. The 

 central area pale ochreous to fawn-brown, darkest at the extradiscal line, 

 becoming paler toward intradiscal line. Discal spot white, linear, distinct. 

 The outer area with a sparse sprinkling of brown scales, the inner portion 

 with a whitish shade at the costa, which also extends more or less 

 through the centre of the area. The outer margin distinctly angulate at 

 media i and cubitus 2. Secondaries usually with a transverse line 

 beginning at inner margin and fading away toward costa, which corre- 

 sponds to the extradiscal line of primaries ; within this line the area is pale 

 ochreous, gradually merging into the ground colour toward the base. 

 Discal si)ot large, "rounded, rather faint. The outer area with a sprinkling 



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