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hair on the postscutellum ; wings dilute, fuliginous all over. Head large; 

 eyes olive-green ; vertex broad, strong and extremely densely punctured, 

 but at sides, behind summits of eyes, sparsely punctured ; lateral ocelli 

 considerably nearer to eyes than to hind margin of head ; antennae black ; 

 clypeus densely punctured, rather more sparsely in the middle, the punc- 

 tures throughout conspicuously of different sizes ; clypeal margin with a 

 small median tubercle, and a slight dentiform angle some distance on each 

 side of it; mandibles broad, obtusely quadridentate; maxillary palpi small; 

 first joint of labial palpi about as long as second ; hair of head and thorax 

 white, with more or less of a yellowish tinge; vertex with extremely scanty 

 short dark hair ; mesothorax denuded, dull and densely punctured, with 

 remnants of a pair of anterior lines of white hair, in the manner of allied 

 species ; tegulae very dark reddish-brown ; legs with light hair, that on 

 inner side of tarsi pale orange ; claws with basal tooth poorly developed ; 

 middle tarsi broad and fiat, densely covered with pale yellowish hair on 

 outer side ; hind basitarsus very broad and flat : abdomen broad, with 

 narrow but conspicuous yellowish-white hair-bands ; surface between the 

 bands with very short black hair ; when the abdomen is seen from above 

 the black hair projects at sides, but is very short ; sixth segment convex, 

 with no differentiated lip, its base with dark hairs like those of the other 

 segments, its apical half with appressed yellowish hair ; last ventral 

 segment projecting a little beyond last dorsal; ventral scopa creamy-white, 

 black on last segment. 



Hab. — Lee County, Texas, June, 1908 (Birkmann). Nearest, I 

 think, to M. Newelli, Ckll., but much larger, with the vertex much broader, 

 and the punctures of mesothorax much larger and not so dense. It is 

 easily known from M. generosa, Cress., by the larger size and the extreme 

 brevity of the black hair on the abdomen. The dark wings readily 

 separate it from M. sexdentata, Rob. 



GEOMETRID NOTES— EUPITHECIA MISERULATA, GROTE. 



BY L. W. SWETT, BOSTON, MASS. 



In "Entomological News" (Vol. XIX, July, 1908, page 312), Mr. R. 

 F. Pearsall gives us an excellent article on Eupithecia 7?iiserulata, and 

 has without doubt established its identity correctly. This summer I have 

 been gathering material from all parts to find out more about this trouble- 

 some species, with a fair degree of success. It evidently has more than 



November, 1909 



