74 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Cartereau found in a swallow's nest a pupa of Lucilia dispar containing 

 an imago of Sc. fenestralis which had not been able to leave the pupa of 

 Lucilia, so the larva must have fed on it. Mr. Perris has found the pupa 

 in wood holes made by Hylotrapes bajiihis. He supposes the rotten 

 fungi may have been attacked by Tineidae or Coleopterous larvae, and 

 that the larva of Scenopinus is carnivorous. Prof F. W. Putnam found 

 his larva near to an empty case of the cloth moth. Should it happen to 

 be that the Scenopinus larva destroys those of the cloth moth? Then it 

 would be a very beneficial insect. It would be very interesting to ascer- 

 tain the fact by direct observation. 



DESCRIPTIONS OF THREE NEW SPECIES OF GEOMETRID^. 



BY J. ELWYN BATES, SO. ABINGTON, MASS. 



Rheumaptera brunneomaculata, sp. nov. 



Abdomen and ground color of wings white. Head, thorax and an- 

 tennse cinereous. Inner third of fore wings containing three irregular ash- 

 colored lines more heavily shaded towards the thorax. Mesial band 

 crossed by two narrow, irregular and somewhat interrupted cinereous 

 lines, between which on the inner margin of the wing is located a very 

 distinct sub-triangular spot of deep brown color. Another larger, nearly 

 quadrangular, very distinct brown patch, widest on costa, extends from 

 costal margin to near the middle of the wing, in the lower part of which 

 is located the oblong very dark brown discal dot. 



The mesial band is limited exteriorly by a regularly scalloped cinere- 

 ous line. A narrow sub-marginal irregularly scalloped white line shaded 

 on both sides with brown scales ; a darker patch filling two scallops 

 above the middle and widening somewhat towards the outer margin of 

 the wing. 



A dark brown costo-apical patch about 0.04 of an inch broad, filling 

 the space between the mesial band and the sub-marginal white line, be- 

 yond which is another small brown spot. Cilia on fore wings light brown. 

 Hind wings with discal dot, and a strongly scalloped sub-marginal white 

 line slightly sprinkled with brown scales, and heavily shaded interiorly 

 with ash color. 



Cilia nearly white dusted with brown scales at the terminus of the 



