519. 

 THERA CONIFERATA. 



The Durham Juniper Moth. 



Order Lepidoptera. Fam. Phalsenidae. 



Type of the Genus, Geometra variata Hilb. 



Thera Step. — Cliesias Och., Goda. — Geometra Linn., Hub. — Pha- 



laena Haw. 



Antenna: inserted close to the eyes on the crown of the head, 

 filiform, moderately long, clothed with scales above, and densely 

 covered with short hairs beneath (1 (J); a little more slender in 

 the females. 

 Maxill(B spiral, nearly as long as the antennae, and rather stout 



Labial Palpi projecting beyond the head nearly horizontally, 



their points often meeting like a beak, densely clothed with 



scales, making them appear in profile obtuse and clavate (4) ; 



triarticulate, basal joint long and curved, 2nd as long and 



straight, 3rd small ovate (4 a). 



Head small and globose : eyes orbicular and prominent . Thorax with 



a small tuft on the back. Wings, superior subtrigonate, with the 



costa arched, covering the inferior, which are rather narrow, and 



forming a triangle in repose. Abdomen rather long, linear and 



lifted at the apex in the male, more conical at the apex in the female. 



Legs moderately long : thighs slender, nearly of equal length : tibiae, 



anterior not very short, intermediate terminated by a jjair of spurs, 



posterior with 4 long spurs, one pair below the middle, all of them 



having a minute spine at the apex (8 f). Larvse loopers, smooth and 



cylindrical, with 6 pectoral, 2 abdominal and 2 anal feet. Pupee 



acuminated at the apex. 



CoNiFERATA Curt. MSS. — Guidc, Gen. 918. 



Shining reddish brown, eyes black, a little larger in the male 

 than female : superior wings with the base darker brown, in- 

 closing 1 or 2 strigse, a narrow fascia of the same colour across 

 the middle, broadest at the costa and suddenly dilated exter- 

 nally, with an indistinctly ocellated oval spot at the apex of the 

 discoidal cell, the edges of the fascia are blackish, esi^ecially at 

 the interior margin, and inside at the middle, and edged with 

 an irregular jiale line outside ; towards the posterior margin is a 

 whitish crenated line, with 2 or 3 blackish streaks outside to- 

 wards the apex, and at the base of the cilia are 7 or 8 pairs of 

 dark dots ; inferior wings dull ochreous white, inclining to red- 

 dish brown at the margin, the edge of which is darker with dots : 

 abdomen freckled with brown and white ; tuft at apex of male 

 dull ochreous. 



Li the Cabinets of Mr. Wailes, the Author, S^c. 



