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Under Side. Palpi distinct, and like bristles at their extremities. Breast, legs, and wings light 

 brown. A row of cream spots, angularly shaped, are placed along the wings; the outward part being 

 furnished with about twenty-eight small cream spots irregularly placed. Margins of the posterior wings 

 dentated, of the anterior entire. 



According to Mr. Smeathman this species is easily disturbed during the day. It flies 

 exceedingly rapid, and has a method of striking a leaf or bough at two or three feet 

 distance fi'om the place where it really settles. Whether this be done to break the violence 

 of its motion, and enable it to settle without injury to its body ; or for the purpose of 

 deceiving its pursuers, is not easily ascertained ; it has, however, the latter, and probably 

 both effects ; most of the locusts do this, for they certainly strike some branch with a good 

 deal of violence just before they alight, the motion of which deceives the eyes and bafiles 

 the pui'suer. 



GEOMETRA ARGENTATA. 



Plate XIV. fig. 3. 



Order : Lepidoptera. Section : Nocturna. Family : Gcometridce, Stejjh. 



Genus. Geometra, Auct. Subgenus. ? 



Geo.metra Argentata. Alis pallide griseis, anticis fasciis duabus, posticis unica flavis, iitrinque argenteo-mar- 

 ginatis hisoceUo marginali obscuro. (Expans. Alar. 1 uuc. 9 lin.) 



Syn. Pbalsena (Geometra) Argentata, Drurij, App. vol. 2. 



Habitat : Jamaica. 



Upper Side. Antennae filiform. Body grey. Wings pale yellowish grey. A narrow yellow bar 

 rises near the middle of the anterior wings, which, crossing them and the posterior, ends a little below 

 the body on the abdominal edges ; another small bar crosses the anterior wings near the shoulders, 

 both of them being verged with silver. A small dark spot, surrounded with silver, is also placed close 

 to the external edges of the posterior wings ; and above it is a yellowish patch reaching to the upper 

 corners. 



Under Side. Wings pale light-coloured, almost white, immaculate. Margins of the wings entire. 



PETASIA? MINISTRA. 



Plate XIV. fig. 3. 



Order: Lepidoptera. Section; Nocturna. Family: Nolodoutidae, S'(«j97j. 



Genus. Petasia? Stephens. Phalaena (Noctua), Drunj. 



Petasia ■? Ministra. Alis anticis rufescenti-fidvis, atrigis quinque transversis, posticis pallidioribus 5 . ( Expans. 

 Alar. 2 uuc.) 



Si'N. Phalasna Noctua Ministra, Drury, App. vol. 2. 



Phalcena Ministra, Abbot ^ Smith Ins. Georg. t. 81. Oliv. Enc. Meth. 5. 69. 155. 

 Habitat ; New York. 



Upper Side. Antennae filiform. Head and thorax reddish brown. Abdomen clay-coloured. An- 

 terior wings brown orange, with five small dark lines crossing from the anterior to the posterior edges. 

 Posterior wings clay-coloured, fringed with orange brown. 



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