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Antennae ( ? ) well pectinated; palpi slender, short, porrect; frenulum apparently 

 absent. 



Neuration : forewings ; cell not half as long as wing ; discocellular oblique ; 

 first median nervnle at two-thirds, second and third stalked; lower radial from near 

 the top end of discocellular; upper radial stalked with the 5 subcostals; 11 anasto- 

 mosing for a considerable distance with 12 ; hindwiugs with costal only shortly 

 approximated to subcostal; 3, 4, and 0, 7, stalked; radial from near top end of 

 discocellular. 



Type: Xanthoxena imitans sp. nov. 



The type species, except that the wings are shorter and broader, strongly 

 resembles those of the genus Smieropus in the Cijllopodinae. But, coloration apart, 

 there really seems to be no affinity between them. I cannot detect any trace of 

 a bar between costal and subcostal of hindwiugs, nor of a frenulum; and as the 

 neuration is identical with that of the subfamilies Dysphaniinae and Geometrinae, I 

 see nothing for it but to refer it to the former, incongruous as its position may 

 appear. The pectination of the ¥ antennae in these subfamilies is nothing unusual. 

 It may be placed next the Papuan genus D>jsschema, Warr., with which in fact it 

 has several points in common. 



35. Xanthoxena imitans sp. nov. 



Foreioings : bright yellow; fringe and hindmargin black, more broadly at apex; 

 costa diffusely black, the black narrowing at base and l)eyond middle. 



Ilind/ciiujs : bright yellow, with black margin from before apex, where it starts 

 narrow, to anal angle, where it is broadest. 



Underside the same. Head, thorax, and abdomen all yellow; antennae and 

 tips of jialpi black; body beneath and legs yellow; the tarsi fuscous grey. 



Expanse of wings : 32 mm. 



Two ? ? from Cachabi, Ecuador, low countr}-, January 1897 (Rosenberg). 



; Subfamily GEOMETEINAE. 

 30. Aplodes pallida sp. nov. 



Forewings: jjale A-ellowish green, without any markings; costa white, tinged 

 with red at base. 



Hindwings : paler; fringes of both wings concolorous. 



Underside similar. Face and palpi ochreous green; thorax and abdomen 

 green; vertex and shaft of antennae white. 



Expanse of wings : 14 mm. 



One cJ from the island of Bonaire, July 1892 (E. Hartertj. 



37. Auophylla ambusta sp. nov. 



Forewings: deep green; costal area above subcostal vein yellowish ochreous, 

 speckled with brown; a pale ochreous unspeckled cell-spot touching it just before 

 the middle, which reaches only half across the cell; marginal area yellowish ochreous, 

 filled with brown striae, which in places are confluent; the inner edge of this 

 marginal border is sinuous, forming two outward curves, one l)Ctwcen veins G and 

 7, the other between veins 2 and 4: the edge itself is ochreous, unspeckled; a small 

 brown blotch before apex; fringe dark brown. 



