no. 1753. NORTH AMERICAN GEOMETRID Mollis -GROSSBECK. 363 



PERO HONESTARIUS Walker. 



Plato L3, figs. 1. 2; Plate I I. figs. I. 2, 1-8; Plate L5, fig. I. 



1860. Azelina hubneraria t Walker, Cat. Brit. Mus., vol. 20, p. 1st;. 



18(50. Azelina honestaria Walker, Cat. Brit. Mus., vol. 20, p. 258. 



18<j(i. Azelina stygiaria Walker, Cat. Brit. Mus., Suppl. 5, |>. L548. 



1868. Azelina honestaria Grote and Robinson, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 2, 



p. $l=hubneraria. 



1876. Azelina hubnerata \ Packard, Monogr. Geom., p. 520, pi. 1 I. figs. 58, 59. 



1876. Azelina stygiaria Packard, Monogr. • 'com., p. ">'_':'>. 



L881. Azelina hubneraria Butler, Ann. and Mau r . Nat. Bist., ser. 5, vol. 8, p. 33. 



1881. Azelina honestaria Butler, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. ■">. vol. 8, p. 33. 



1881. Azelina stygiaria Butler, Ann. and Mai;-. Nat. Hist., ser. 5, vol. 8, p. 33. 



1886. Azelina hubnerata IIulst, Ent. Amer., vol. 2, p. lit. 



1886. Azelina stygiaria Hulst, Ent. Amer., vol. 2, p. 49=hubnerata. 



1886. Azelina honestaria Hulst, Ent. Amer., vol. 2, j>. 49=hubnerata. 



1890. Azelina hubneraria J Packard, Fifth Etept. IT. S. Ent. Comm., p. 526. 



1895. Azelina peplaria Hulst, Ent. News, vol. 6, p. 14. 



1895. Azelina stygiaria Hulst, Ent. News, vol. 6, p. I4=peplaria. 



1895. Azelina hubnerata Hulst, Ent. News, vol. (i, p. 14, var. of peplaria. 



1895. Azelina honestaria Hulst, Ent. News, vol. 6, p. I4=var. hubnerata. 



1900. f Azelina hubneraria J Druce, Biol. Centr.-Amer., Lep. Het., vol. 2, p. 61. 



1900. Azelina honestaria Druce, Biol. Centr.-Amer., Lep. Het., vol. 2, p. 61. 



1900. Azelina peplaria % Caudell, Ent. News, vol. 11, p. 583, larva. 



1902. Azelina ancetaria i Hulst, Bull. 52, U. S. Nat. Mus., p. 344. 



1902. Azelina honestaria, Hulst, Bull. 52, U. S. Nat. Mus., p. 344=ancetaria. 



1902. Azelina peplaria Hulst, Bull. 52, U. S. Nat. Mus., p. 344, var. oiancetaria, 



1902. Azelina stygiaria Hulst, Hull. 52, U. S. Nat. Mus., p. 344=var. peplaria. 



1903. Azelina ancetaria I Holland, Moth Book, p. 352, pi. 15, fig. 23. 



Male. — Expanse, 36 to 40 mm. Head and thorax umber brown 

 scattered over with tine gray scales; antenna 1 yellowish with a white 

 spot at the base of each; front with a white V or U shaped mark 

 across the superior portion which connects the spots on the antenna'; 

 palpi concolorous with tint of head. Abdomen gray or brownish; 

 when the latter, the segments are narrowly darkened posteriorly. 

 Ground color of wings soft gray and usually finely strigate, especially 

 outwardly and along costa, though the strigations are often reduced 

 to shapeless atoms. Inner line of primaries blackish, the scallops 

 not strongly pronounced; outer line rather smoothly undulate. 

 Inner area heavily shaded or mottled with umber brown, the ground 

 color showing through, especially jusl internally- of the limiting cross 

 line. Median area similarly shaded and assuming an intense blackish- 

 brown along outer line. Outer area shaded with olive gray. Discal 

 spot white, angular, linear. Fringe brown. Transverse line of 

 secondaries curved, more or less denticulate though sometimes quite 

 straight and even. Inner area smoky, densest at cross line Outer 

 area smoky, sometimes strigate with gray or brown. Three black 

 intervenular spots on outer margin uear the anal angle are always 

 present, and frequently two or three other smaller ones nearer the 



