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continuation of basal line on fore wings. Outer line much bent on both wings, to- 

 wards and below middle scalloped with points on veins and these continued on veins 

 to a marginal white line broader below apex and at inner angle, the latter space in- 

 closing a deep red somewhat broken spot, which in the cj is continued part way a- 

 long the edge as a marginal line. Hind wings as fore wings, with inclosed red spot 

 at anal angle, connected along edge as a marginal red line. Fringes dull white. 

 Beneath very pale green, lines very faintly reproduced. 



2 cf> 2 9- ^la. Coll. Hy, Edwards, Neumoegen, Hulst. 



This insect has very strongly the appearance of a Phoradesma, but 

 the tibial amature of Eucrostis. 



13. Chlorosea graefiaria sp. nov. 



Expands 34 mm. Palpi white, front reddish brown, antennce white ochreous be- 

 low. Thorax and forewings white faintly tipped with green. Abdomen and hind 

 wings pure white the latter along the outer margin very faintly tinged with green. 

 All fringes green. A single outer somewhat broad white line on fore wings, oblique, 

 nearer outer edge than in C. nevadaria and starting from costa nearer apex. Be- 

 neath pure white with very faint greenish tinge on fore wings along costa. Legs 

 white. 



2 9> Nevada, Coll. Graef, Tepper. 



14. Cheimatobia bruceata sp. nov. 



While describing the above Gtometridce I wish to call attention to 

 what is to me a very interesting addition to insect history. One of our 

 cummon Geometers is the so called Cheimatobia boreata Hubn. The in- 

 sect described under this name is common in Europe. It has been 

 rather remarkable that, till very lately, the 9 has never been discovered 

 in America. Dr. Packard says in his Monograph the 9 has never yet 

 been taken, and till last spring I heard no account of it. At that 

 time 1 received a letter from Mr. Bruce of Brockport N. Y., sayino- he 

 had carried larvae through to imagines, and that the Q was entirely dif- 

 ferent from C. boreata Hubn. of Europe, and that this insect, which had 

 been looked upon as identical with another, was a very different thini*. 

 Mr, Bruce asked me to give it a name, which I do by giving it the spe- 

 cific name of bruceata, after the veteran and succes>ful Lepidopterist who 

 ascertained its history. 



The 9 of this species, (I have several before me), is almost entire- 

 ly wingless. It has just the merest rudiments of wings. And from its 

 color and size, I have no doubt that it has, if taken, been looked upon 

 as the 9 or " one of the species of Anisopteryx. It is of a grayish black 

 color. Antennae and legs annulated with white. Thorax and abdomen 

 marked above more or less with blackish. It is rather small, the dried 

 specimens being 5 to 7 mm. in length. 



After knowing that they are not the same, it is easy to note differ- 

 ences in the males of these two hitherto confused species. In C. bruceata 

 the cross lines are finer, more distinct, more evenly scalloped, and more 

 numerous in the average of specimens than in C. boreata. The wings 



