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ONE OF OUR NEGLECTED ^'GREENS" (GEOxMETRID^). 



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



Ihis little moth [ find generally associated, when present in collec- 

 tions, w'wh p/iynifiaria, Zell., which in reality is rather a rare species. For 

 a long time I liave been aware of its distinctness, but I could obtain no 

 clean, fresh specimens of the latter for comparison. Packard's description 

 {ZelUraria ^' phyiruiaria), in Mono. Geo. Moths, p. 370, is an excellent 

 one, and, as he points oat, the front x-s, green and the colour more solid, 

 without irrorations, and the cross lines finer and firmer than in many 

 species. The following description should make the differences specific : 



CJilorochlamys vertaria, n. sp. — Expanse, 14-15 mm. Palpi deep 

 ochre, tipped with red. Front brownish red. Antennse and along costa 

 ochreous. Thorax and all wings above pale sea-green, the latter finely 

 irrorate with whitish. Cross lines yellowish-white, distinct. On fore 

 wings basal line crosses in two rather strong outward curves, one from 

 costa to median vein, thence another to inner margin. Extra discal 

 starting from costa, two-thirds out, nearly straight at origin, rounds some- 

 what outwardly to vein 5, where it makes another outward curve to vein 

 I, and thence outward in a short straight line to inner margin, well within 

 anal angle. Sometimes this line makes a single broad outward sweep to 

 vein I. No discal dots above or below. Fringes rather long, green at 

 base, white terminally. Hind wings without basal line. The extradiscal, 

 an extension from fore wings, runs subparallel with margin, but as in fore 

 wings, with two outward curves and outward straight line to inner margin, 

 the short curve opposite cell being sharper and well marked. Beneath 

 greenish-white, the extradiscal white lines above faintly showing through ; 

 costa rather broadly ochreous. Abdomen above and beneath, and legs, 

 white, a little tinged with ochreous, the fore tibiae washed with brownish- 

 red. 



Type. — S from Phcenix, Ariz, (ix, 18, '07), and ?, Phoenix, Ariz, 

 (ix, 16, '07), through Dr. R. E. Kunze, in my collection. 



Co-types. — Three males. 



