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atoms. Posterior wings light yellow; median band black, broadly con- 

 stricted on the disc, straight, slightly narrowing towards internal mar- 

 gin, ioinina; a faint blackish basal shade at external margrin. Terminal 

 baud black, continued, leaving a yellow space at external angle, regu- 

 larly undulate, constricted anterior to anal angle. Under surface of wings 

 pale luteous, darker shaded towards the base, median bauds black, 

 tapering towards either margin. Thorax, tegulae and collar greyish, 

 latter bordered with black with a central whitish line; tegulae with an 

 anterior brown spot bordered with whitish ; abdomen slightly luteous 

 above, paler beneath ; legs grey, middle tibiae streaked with brownish 

 black, anterior and posterior tibise grey. Exp. 2f^ inches. 



Hab. Eastern States. 



A 9 specimen in good condition given me by Mr. Wm. A. Nason. 

 and now in the Coll. Ent. Soc. Philadelphia. A very distinct species 

 of more robust form than G. poli/yama Guenee. 



Named in honor of Hon. Geo. W. Clinton, President of the Buffalo 

 Society of Natural Sciences. 



GEOMETRINA, H-S. 



Epione depontanata, nov. sp. Plate 2, 6g. 7. % . 



Anterior wings pale brownish, median space citron yellow superi- 

 orily, external margin with a moderate angle at the extremity of vein 

 4. Basal space pale fawn color, slightly purplish at costa and showing 

 several minute streaks. Median space narrow, owing to the propinquity 

 of the median lines which latter are pale brownish, ill defined, the 

 transverse anterior regularly undulate, forming three curves, the first 

 of which rather the most prominent; transverse posterior line some- 

 what arcuated superiorily, slightly dentate, followed by a row of mi- 

 nute white dots on the veins. Median space citron yellow superiorily 

 till below the median vein, becoming pale fawn color towards the inter- 

 nal margin, showing some costal brownish marks and a distinct black 

 diseal dot. Terminal and subterminal spaces evenly colored, pale brown- 

 ish ; subterminal line indicated by minute blackish dots on the veins, 

 joining at the costa a sub-apical purplish semi-circular spot, open at 

 the costa. shaded inwardly with whitish, margined by a darker line 

 which is somewhat dentated posteriorily, straight anteriorily. The 

 terminal and subterminal spaces at internal angle, and along the trans- 



