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found. It is to be found resting on pine trees, but 

 it is very much harder to see than the jocosa,, blend- 

 ing more with the colors of the pine bark. The wet- 

 ness of the season does not seem to affect the green 

 color of the major and neither do the body fluids 

 seem to affect it nearly so much as in jocosa. 



Officers of the Boston Entomological Club for 1917. 

 S. E. Gassing, President. 

 Rudolph C. B. Bartsch, Vice President. 

 H. J. Law, Treasurer. 

 Wm. Reiff, Supt- of Auctions, 366 Arborway, 



Jamaica Plain, Mass. 

 N- Stowers, Secy., 15 Anson St., Jamaica Plain, 



Mass. 



New Geometrids 



BY L. W. SWETT, BOSTON, MASS., 



Carsia boreata Thaxteri var. nov. 



Head pink, also palpi and part of thorax ; body 

 brownish, tinged with pink. Primaries pink, with 

 costa to inner margin- Intra discal line incurved from 

 costa to inner margin closely followed by a second 

 shade line, the two almost touching. Discal dot linear 

 and quite prominent. The extra discal line is double 

 as the intra discal line, but the one nearest discal spot 

 runs slightly wavy from costa to vein 3, then makes 

 an outward curve towards outer margin. The sec- 

 ond intra discal line almost touches the first except 

 just below costa, where it is curved outwardly form- 

 ing a joint Then it makes a sharp inward curve, 

 then outward, forming a second point, making two 

 toothed projections as it were. Below the second 

 projection it makes a third very slight projection and 

 then curves inwardly to inner margin. An indistinct 

 irregular sub-terminal line connected below apex 

 with black apical streak- Secondaries, unicolorous 

 pinkish brown, without markings, except in one fe- 

 male where there is faint curved band. Beneath 

 primaries, deep pink, along border fuscous shaded 



