28 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



GEOMETRID.E AS YET UNDESCRIBED. 



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

 (Continued from page 253, Vol. XLIII.) 



Eupithecia vaporata. n. sp. 



Expanse, 13-15 mm. Palpi moderate, rather heavily scaled, dark 

 brown. Antennae slender, gray, barred faintly with dark brown, shortly 

 ciliate beneath. All above gray, mixed with dusky brown, scaled, the 

 front and first two segments of the abdomen being paler, the latter without 

 tufts. Fore wings narrow, extended at apex, are crossed by a number of 

 ill-defined hair lines composed of the darker scales. The intra- and extra- 

 discal lines appear double and heavier, the former obliterating the discal 

 dot, which it reaches at a sharp angle from costa, and thence with a 

 strongly basal trend to inner margin ; the latter, with less of an angle 

 below costa, becomes slightly heavier opposite cell, and wavy to inner 

 margin, nearly parallel to iniradiscal. The basal line is obsolete. 

 Beyond extradiscal the usual geminate pale line is present, not clear, but 

 faintly margined outside with a fine hair line of dark scales. These cloud 

 the subterminal space, which is without definite markings. Marginal line 

 broad, black, broken at veins. Fringes rather long, gray. Hind wings 

 with lines as on primaries, but fainter, except at inner margin, the extra- 

 discal being heaviest, with strong outward curve around discal dot, which 

 is a mere pin point. Marginal line and fringes as on primaries. Beneath 

 the body and wings are somewhat paler and more glossy, the lines on 

 wings reproduced as above, and all except the marginal line are fainter. 



Types, $, and 9 ? i'^om. San Diego, California (Ricksecker), were 

 taken at light, May 16, 1910, and co-types in a series of fourteen in both 

 sexes, from the same locality, are in author's collection. Also a co-type $ 

 from collection of Geo. H. Field, San Diego, Cal , taken by him April 22, 

 1910, is in possession of Mr. J. A. Grossbeck. 



This species is smaller even than huachiica Gros,, less distinct in 

 markings, and paler in ground colour. 



Eupithecia scabrogata, n. sp. 



Expanse, 22 mm. Of the same size, and much xç.stxwhXxwgsiibapicaia 

 Guen. Palpi short, stout, loosely scaled, dark brown. Front and vertex 

 rough, with a mixture of dark and pale brown scales. Antennae dark 

 brown, flattened, slender^ ciliate in ^ , almost bare in Ç . Thorax black 

 centrally, crossed from base to base of wings by a broad dusky white band, 



January. 1912 



