Dec. 1897] ScHAUS : New Species of Geometrid^. 165 



Boarmia sapulena, sp. nov. 



$ fawn color, thickly irrorated with brownish scales especially on the outer half 

 of the wings, the basal line fine, blackish, indistinct; the median shade, dark, broad, 

 indistinct, suffused with the ground color, the outer line fine, wavy, black, followed by 

 a light brownish shade; an ill-defined smoky terminal band, divided by a semilunular 

 white line. Abdomen with two dorsal rows of black spots. Underneath wings sor- 

 did white, faintly irrorated with brownish scales, and a faint dark subapical shade on 

 the primaries and the discal spots indistinct. Expanse, 31 mm. 



9 fawn color, thickly irrorated with brownish scales, no lines visible. A broad 

 transverse median shade and the outer line replaced by a series of black points on the 

 veins, followed by a faint browish shade. The discal spots very indistinct. Expanse, 

 42 mm. 



Habitat : Petropolis, Rio Janeiro, San Paulo. 



Boarmia luciaria, sp. nov. 



Thorax brown. Abdomen gray. Primaries dark brown with the median space 

 between the basal and outer lines light gray, these two lines black, well defined ; a 

 faint median brownish line, the discal spots brownish, circular, with grayish centre; 

 an indistinct subterminal dentate blackish line inwardly powdered with grayish scales. 

 Secondaries with the basal half light gray, crossed by a faint brownish median line, 

 the outer line black, distinct ; the marginal half dark brown with an indistinct sub- 

 terminal grayish shade. A terminal row of black points. Underneath the wings are 

 whitish at the base and then heavily shaded with black. Expanse, 32 mm. 



Habitat : St. Lucia, B. W. 1. 

 Boarmia aztecaria, sp. nov. 



Head and thorax gray. Abdomen somewhat paler. Wings semi-diaphanous, 

 whitish gray, slightly irrorated with darker gray and blackish striae. Primaries 

 with the base somewhat brownish ; the basal line velvety black, oblique from costa 

 to median, then slightly curved inwardly to the submedian and afterwards very 

 oblique inwardly towards the base of the inner margin ; a broad blackish sinuate me- 

 dian line extending on to the secondaries, where it curves down along the inner mar- 

 gin; the outer line velvety black and fine, starting from the costa at four-fifths from 

 the base, obliquely curved to vein 5, where it shoots out a short black line towards 

 the outer margin, and then wavy and sinuate to the middle of the inner margin, just 

 above which it touches the median line ; on the secondaries a wavy black outer line. 

 The extreme margin finely black. The discal spots small and faintly marked. 

 Underneath white, showing the markings of the upper side. Expanse, 42 rnm. 



Habitat : Orizaba and Oaxaca, Mexico. 

 A very fine and distinct species. 



Boarmia franckia, sp. nov. 



Wings fawn color irrorated with black scales, thickly so on the basal and me- 

 dian spaces. The basal and outer lines fine, black and parallel, very oblique out- 

 wards from the costa, and then angled and inwardly oblique to the inner margin ; 



