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running along the external edges, being very narrow in the middle. All the wings are plain and 

 entire. 



Under Side. Exactly like the upper, but the colours are less brilliant. 



This species is nearly related to our common British species, Spilosoma lubricepida. 



GEOMETRA TRANSVERSATA. 



Plate VIII. fig. 2. 



* Order: I.epidoptera. Section: Nocturna. Family: Geometn<\?e,Stephe}is. 



Genus. Geometra, Linn- Ste]]hens, Ennomos, Treitschke, DuponcheJ. \ 



Geometra TRANSVERSATA. Alis angulatis fusco-fulvescentibus undique strigis minutis transversis fasciaque tenui 



oommuni obscura notatis. (Expans. Alar. 2 line.) 

 S YN. Phalsena (Geometra) transversata, Drury, Ajypend. v. 2. 

 Habitat: New York. 



UpjKr Side. The antenna are filiform, half an inch in length. The head, thorax, abdomen, and 

 wings, of a brown orange. All the wings are angulated and besprinkled with small short transverse 

 streaks parallel to each other. A narrow brown line, beginning at the external angle of the anterior 

 wings, and running in a transverse direction, crosses them and the posterior wings near the middle, meeting 

 above the extremity of the abdomen. 



Under Side. Exactly like the upper in every circumstance, except that the brown line is not to be 

 seen. 



This species seems nearly allied to the moths, which English collectors call the Thorns, 

 and to which Stephens restricts the name of Geometra, but which M. Dupouchel terms 

 Ennomos. 



BUPALUS CATENARIUS. 



Plate VIII. fig. 3. 



Order : Lepidoptera. Section : Nocturna. Family : Geometridae, Steph. 

 Genus. Bupalus, Leach. Fidonia, p. Treitschke. Phalaeua (Geometra),;2)rMr2/. 



BtrPALUS Catenarius. Fronte fulva, ; alis alhis lunula medi^ ; anticis strigis duabus undatis (scil. ante et pone 

 medium), posticis strigS, unic^, nigris. (Expans. Alar. 1 unc. lin.) 



Syn. Phalsena (Geometra) catenaria, Drury, App. v.2. Fabr. J3nt. Syst. Ill .2. p. tiO. No. il. Gmel. Linn. 

 S.N. 2461: 600. 



Habitat : New \0Tk{Drury). " In Indiis" (Fabr.). 



Upper Side. The head is orange-coloured; the eyes black; the antennae are broad, and pecti- 

 nated ; the thorax white, with three spots of orange colour, one at each shoulder, the other at the base of 

 the abdomen, where are two small black specks. The abdomen is white, and on each ring is a small 

 black speck. The wings are white ; and, on each anterior one, are two denticulated lines, running cross 

 the wing, from the anterior to the interior edge, in a circular manner ; the one near the base, the other 



