178 GEOMETRID MOTHS 



Fore wing white-grey with brown-grey irroration (tone as 

 in hifaJsaria Prout or dusky incanata Linn.) ; cell-mark 

 Romewhat elongate, not strong ; lines weak ; antemedian slightly 

 excnrved in cell (here 3.5 mm. from base) then obliqne inward ; 

 postmedian fine, about 2 mm. from termen, weakly sinuous; 

 median shade well beyond cell-mark, somewhat undulating; 

 pale subterminal rather broad and conspicuous, at least 

 as broad as in incanata, the curves rather stronger; terminal 

 line black, not or scarcel}^ interrupted, though a little 

 thickened between the veins; fringe weakly irrorated. Hind 

 wing with termen scarcely appreciably bent in middle ; cell- 

 mark still weaker, less concise ; antemedian line wanting, 

 the rest as on fore wing, the median and postmedian slightly 

 farther from termen. 



Fore wing beneath a little more smoky, hind wing a little 

 paler; both weakly marked, the postmedian line the most 

 noticeable; terminal line brownish. 



Lio Matu. December. 



Probably nearest to spissitarfiata Warr., but with termen of 

 fore wing slightly more oblique, the lines somewhat different, 

 cell-dots weaker, the hind tibial pencil not black-grey, the 

 tarsus not so extremely short (in spi.ssitar.<iata about ^). 

 Venation normal (in spi.'isitar.'iafa SC^ of fore wing is stalked 

 well beyond the end of the areole). 



33. SCOPULA LEUCOPIS sp. n. 



Cf , 9 30-31 mm. 



Face predoininantly white, only darkened round the edges. 

 Palpus black, pale beneath. Vertex, thorax and abdomen 

 concolorous with wings; collar more ochreous-brown. 

 Antennal joints of male somewhat projecting ; ciliation over 1. 

 Hind tibia of male thickened, elongate (nearly twice femur) ; 

 tarsus considerably under l tibia, second joint nearly § length 

 of first. 



Fore wing whitish-brown, with sparse blackish irroration ; 

 cell-dot black ; lines brown , not very strong ; antemedian out- 

 bent in cell and again just behind M (angled inward on M). 

 oblique to hind margin; median moderately dentate, at the 

 radials midway between antemedian and postmedian. anteriorly 

 ^oblique inward, posteriorly oblique inward, somewhat incurved 

 at fold; postmedian rather more concise (lunulate-dentate), 

 the teeth accentuated by small black vein-dots, general course 

 nearly as of median but rather less oblique posteriorly, an 



