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DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW GENERA AND SPECIES OF THE 

 GEOMETRINA OF NORTH AMERICA. 



BY GEO. D. HULST, BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, N. Y. 



Paleacrita longiciliata, n. sp. 



Expands 26 mm. Palpi dark fuscous ; front very broad, dark 

 fuscous, slightly tufted ; antennae fuscous gray, subpectinate, the fascicles 

 of hairs fine, silky, very long, some six to ten times diameter of stem ; 

 thorax dark fuscous gray ; abdomen dark fuscous. Fore wings, costa 

 strongly arched, apex quite pointed, inner angle rounded, whole wing 

 narrow and lanceolate ; colour light fuscous, generally washed over with 

 dark fuscous, with numerous black atoms, especially on the veins, 

 making them linearly blackish ; also apically and in small indistinct 

 shadings across the wing light gray, also light gray shading at ends of 

 veins at margin ; marginal points intervenular, blackish ; fringe long ; 

 fuscous gray, and light gray ; hind wings even fuscous, veins darker ; 

 fringe long, dark fuscous. Beneath even fuscous on all wings about 

 colour of hind wings above, veins darker, the fore wings with a sprinkling 

 of dark fuscous atoms. 



Palo Alto, Cal.; from Dr. Barnes, 

 P. SPECIOSA, n. sp. 



Expands 32 mm. Palpi black, front thorax and abdomen dark 

 fuscous, the thorax with some black scales intermixed, the abdomen a 

 shade lighter fuscous. Fore wings whitish-gray, with five somewhat 

 diffuse cross lines made up of black scales not very solid, the first, sub- 

 basal, bent outward at cell ; the second, just within middle, bent at 

 costal vein, and darkest costally, thence straight across wing ; the third, 

 just beyond the black discal spot, not very distinct, except at costa, 

 where it is distinct and black, forming the inner edge of a large suboval 

 white spot which reaches to apex ; the fourth line, broad, diffuse, sub- 

 dentate, reaching to the apical spot ; outer line diffuse, indistinctly 

 dentate, following the apical spot on outer margin nearly to apex, 

 becoming there distinct, heavy, black ; between fourth and fifth, and 

 also fifth and margin, the whitish-gray shows in a dentate or subdentate 

 band ; margin black, the black broader between veins, fringe fuscous. 

 Hind wings light fuscous, veins more or less darker. Beneath light, 

 smooth, fuscous, the lines of fore wing faintly shadowed, especially at costa 

 and apex ; submarginal space brokenly darker, marginal line blackish. 



Glen wood Springs, Colo., May 3 ; from Dr. Barnes. 



