550 



PSYCHE. 



[November 1893. 



clouded with the same color. The inner 

 margin for one-third of the distance from the 

 base is covered with silvery white scales. In 

 the middle ofthis white longitudinal mass of 

 scales is a minute brown spot. The secon- 

 daries are pale fuscous with the outer margins 

 broadly blackish. The fringes of the prim- 

 aries and the secondaries are light fawn and 

 obscurely checkered with darker brown at the 

 ends of the nervules. On the under side, both 

 wings are pale fuscous with the neurations, 

 an obscurely defined discal mark, and the 

 margins from a little beyond the cell dark 

 fuscous. The fringes are paler, and not 

 checkered as on the upper side. Expanse, 

 30 mm. 



192. G. (/) geometroptera, sp. nov. J. 

 Antennae twice as long as the costa of the 

 primaries. The primaries have the outer 

 margin relatively longer and straighter than 

 in the preceding species with the inner margin 

 relatively shorter. The front is brown; the 

 thorax on the upper side olivaceous-green ; 

 the upper side of the abdomen fuscous; the 

 lower side of the thorax and the abdomen 

 pale gray. The primaries are pale olivaceous 

 traversed by geminate basal, sub-basal, med- 

 ian, and limbal transverse lines of darker 

 olive-green; darkest in the region of the 

 costa. The nervules at their extremities are 

 marked with short blackish rays, and at the 

 apex there is a series of similar blackish mark- 

 ings enclosing a wood-brown oshaped apical 

 patch. There is an obscure white spot in the 

 middle of the cell surrounded by pale oliva- 

 ceous, a linear discal mark. at the end of the 

 cell dotted at either extremity by dark brown, 

 and beyond the cell an obscure annulus of 

 pale olive-green, margined with darker olive. 

 Near the outer angle there is a brownish 

 patch of scales. Before the geminate sub- 

 basal transverse line just above the inferior 

 vein there is a small white dot. On the 

 margins there are lunulate dark brown mark- 

 ings on the interspaces, and the fringes are 

 pale. The secondaries are pale fuscous with 



the margins broadly darker brown, and an 

 obscure discal dot at the end of the cell. On 

 the under side both wings are very pale 

 fuscous with the neurations dark brown and 

 distinctly defined upon the paler ground. A 

 broad blackish incomplete band runs from 

 the costa near the end of the cell to the origin 

 of the lower radial nervule, coalescing on the 

 costa and at the origin of the radial with a 

 broad blackish outer marginal band, which 

 sweeps inwardly to the point of union. 

 Enclosed between these two markings is a 

 large suboval whitish spot. The end of the 

 cell in the secondaries is marked by a broad 

 obscurely defined blackish spot, and the 

 margins are broadly blackish. The fringes 

 are whitish. Expanse, 33 mm. 



The greater relative breadth of the wings 

 in this species and the lack of a patch of 

 raised scales on the inner margin of the prim- 

 aries lead me to refer the insect with a little 

 doubt to this genus. My specimen is unique 

 and I do not care to dissect without more 

 material. 



Metaleptina, gen. nov. 



Allied to Leptina, Guen. The palpi are 

 longer than in Leptina, and have the third 

 joint long, aciculate, directed upward. The 

 antennae areas in GueneVs genus. The legs 

 are much more densely clothed with scales, 

 especially the third pair, which have the 

 tibiae very heavily clothed with long scales, 

 armed with long spurs, two at the base and 

 one just before it. The primaries are not as 

 long relatively as in Leptina, and relatively 

 broader. On the inner margin at the base, 

 the primaries are clothed with a linear patch 

 of long raised scales. The neuration of the 

 primaries and secondaries is the same as in 

 Leptina, so far as I have been able to ascer- 

 tain by careful comparison, without making 

 microscopic mounts of the wings. Type, M. 

 n igrib a si's, H o 1 1 . 



