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GEOMETRINAE 



Macaria unipunctaria Wgt. (PI. XXI, Figs. 10, 11). 



We have recently received through the kindness of E. P. Van 

 Duzee a photograph of the Paratype of Melanolophia unipunctaria 

 Wgt. described recently in the Ent. News, 1916, XXVII, p. 458; the 

 species is quite misplaced in the genus Melaiiolophia and belongs in 

 the granitata group of Macaria being very close to succosata Zell. 

 which was described ostensibly from Massachusetts material received 

 from Packard. We have never seen any Eastern material that would 

 correspond with Zeller's diagnosis, so cannot give the points of dis- 

 tinction ; we would however call attention to the large red-brown costal 

 spot beyond t. p. line common to both species. Besides a 9 from 

 the type locality we have specimens of unipunctaria from Monachee 

 Meadows, Tulare Co., Calif., and various points in the Santa Catalina 

 Mts. of Arizona ; the species is probably a pine feeder. The $ an- 

 tennae we should characterize as serrate and fasciculate rather than 

 pectinate; the serrations are slightly shorter than in multilineafa Pack, 

 but larger than in the Vancouver Is. form of dispuncta Wlk. 



Macaria adonis sp. nov. (PI. XXI, Fig. 12). 



Antennae in $ serrate and fasciculate, in 9 simple ; palpi, head and 

 collar bright orange, abdomen pale ochreous with a double row of black dorsal 

 dots; thorax and primaries mouse gray, the latter somewhat shaded with 

 whitish on inner half of wing; three prominent black costal spots giving rise 

 to the ordinary dark lines, the second line rather closer to the first than to 

 the third (postmedian), these two being rather faint, slightly bent outward 

 below costa, then straight across wing ; the postmedian line is prominently 

 angled on vein 6, then indistinct, broken and parallel to the other lines, all 

 three showing under a lens traces of olivaceous scaling; beyond the t. p. line 

 the outer area is bright cinnamon-brown with the exception of an apical gray 

 patch and a smaller costal triangular patch adjacent to t. p. line ; at times a 

 faint gray s. t. line may be traced through the brown area arising from the 

 apical gray patch ; a broken terminal dark line ; fringes dusky, deepest in the 

 subapical excision, with a small pale area at apex of wing. Secondaries simi- 

 lar to primaries with the basal area rather paler, the two outer lines continued 

 across wings, the outer being wavy ; a small discal dot ; outer margin crenu- 

 late, distinctly angled at vein 4. Beneath whitish, shaded with light brown 

 especially on outer area, the lines of upper side reproduced ; discal dots on 

 all wings, most distinct on secondaries. Expanse 31-34 mm. 



Habitat: Monachee Meadows, Tulare Co., Calif. 5 3,9 9. Types, 

 Coll. Barnes. 



