453 



iiioiiso-culoic.l. with liiiiit dark cliccks. Beneath as above, hnl mm-e miiruriiilv 

 mouse-colored, willi the onler line as on tlie line \\in<,'s verv I'ainl, and no 

 inarkinos on fhe hind winiis, or wiih (he outer line indistiiief, hut eoniinoii 

 to i)()tli wings. Lenyth of hody, <^ . O.r)0-O.G5 ; of Ihre winir, cf , O.G7_O.SO ineli. 



The 9 individual tiirured on plate 11 (fig. 35), received fnun Alaska 

 through ^Ir. Behrens, is a reniarkal)le lln-ni : lint T will provisionally rcirard it 

 as a variety of the pr(;sent sjx'cies, liaNiiii^ already deserihed one too inan\- in 

 this genus. It is dark, smoky, with the lines and discal dots very hroad 

 aiul heavy. The inner liiu; is slightly scalloped : the outer is txnit inward, 

 more on tiie costa than \u jmlcliroria. 'V\\v i)an(l on the hind w ings is nearly 

 obsolete, and tiie diseal dot is very large. Length of body, O.GU: of lore 

 wing, 0.iJ5 ; expanse of wings, "i.Otl inches. 



Larva and pupa. — Mr. W . Saunders lias raised the moth from the larva 

 found by him on the pine. He states that "the larva is a geometer, and is 

 striped with red". The pupa (plate 13, fig. 13) is rather thick, white, 

 with a broad light-l)rown bajid along the l)ack, becoming widest in the middl(! 

 of the body. There is also a narrow brown band along the side of the bcxlv, 

 and on the under side of the abdomen are four longitudinal stripes of the 

 same color. The wiugs are slashed with light brown, and the antenna' and 

 fore legs are concolorous, while the middle and hind le<rsare white. Leuiith. 

 0.44 inch. 



Cleora umbrosaria Packard. Plate 11, fig 33. 



Cleoru mnhrosaria Puck., Proc. Bost. .Soc. Xat. Hist., xvi,'.i:!, 1874. 



4 i . — Body and wings ash-colored, or pepper-and-salt; vertex of head 

 pale ash. Fore wings crossed by two scalloped lines, the scallops rounded, 

 not pointed ; the basal line straight from the costa to the median vc-in, thence 

 curved inward to the inner edge of the wing; outer line ix-gins on the outer 

 quarter of the costa, and follows a nearly straiirht course to the outer tiiird 

 of the inner edge, there being no great curve above the third median venule, 

 as in C. jmlchraria Minot of the Eastern States. Discal dot black. Hind 

 wings sometimes without any line; the wing is speckled with dark gray on 

 the outer third Beneath, the wings are uniformly ash-colored, the fore wings 

 scarcely darker than the hinder pair. No discal spots or other markings. 



Length of body, 0.55; of fiare wing, 0.75; expanse of wings, 1.60 

 inches. 



