SOME NEW GEOMETRID.E FROM ARIZONA. 



By Geo. W. Taylor, 

 Wellington, B. C. 



Among a number of Geometridce kindly lent to me for study by 

 the U. S. National Museum, I find several that are apparently new to 

 science. Two of these, both belonging to the genus Sabulodes as 

 defined by Hulst, are described in the present paper. 



Sabulodes arizonata, new species. 



Expanse 35 mm. 



Palpi, head, thorax and abdomen and all wings above fawn color with an ochreous 

 tinge, the female being of a rather brighter tint than the male. 



Fore wings falcate, more evidently so in the female, hind wings distinctly angled 

 at vein 4. 



Fore wings crossed by 2 straight buff lines (bordered with whitish) more than 

 twice as distant from one another on the costa as on the inner margin ; discal points 

 faint. 



Hind wings hardly lighter than fore wings ; a single straight extra discal line ; 

 discal points very small and indistinct. 



Beneath uniform pale yellowish fawn, quite without markings in O, but with a 

 few black specks and the very faintest indications of markings as above, in the $ . 



Described from three specimens: d\ Huachuca Mts., Arizona, 

 May 8-15, U. S. National Museum, type no. 9799 ; rj 1 , Cochise Co., 

 Arizona, April 20, 1904, + , Cochise Co., Arizona, July 5, 1904, in 

 my own collection. 



The three specimens present slight differences and if it should 

 prove that they are not conspecific, the first-named specimen must 

 be considered the type of the present species. 



Sabulodes arizonata belongs to that group in the genus which con- 

 tains truxaliaia Guenee, cervinaria Packard, aurantiacaria Packard 

 and novellata Hulst. From the first three of these arizonata differs 

 in having the inner line straight instead of gently curved. From 

 novellata, which also has a straight inner line, it may be distinguished 

 by the absence of any trace of a submarginal hair line above or below 

 and by the approximation of the outer and inner lines on the inner 

 margin of the fore wings. 



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