35i Mr. Cliilclreu's Abstract oj the diameters of 



Species. Icon. 



9.Gx\OY).Sartata^ Treitsch.* — — — 



10. — Giauciiiata, Treitsch. Hiibn.Geom. tab. 28. f.l50.(mas.) 

 11. — Pullata,Wien. Verz.... Hiibn.Geom. tab. 27. f.l45.(mas.) 

 12. — Pw/iCil^^Za^a, Wien.Ver.f Hiibn.Geom. tab.61.F.317.(lccm.) 

 13. — Mucidata, Treitsch.. ..Hiibn.Geom. tab.28.f.l4-8.(foein.) 

 14f. — Carbonaria, Linn Hiibn. Geom. tab.28. f.l51.(mas.) 



Genus 95. BOAR MIA, Ochs., Treitsch. 



(BoARMiA, Duponchel. 

 Cleora, Alcis, Boarmia, Curtis, Stephens.) 



Wings broad, dusky, with transverse, indented lines, and a 

 dark spot near the centre of the disc; posterior margin with 

 a dark, interrupted transverse Hne, or row of spots. — Body 

 proportionally small and slender. — Larva cylindrical; head. 

 nearly concealed by the first segment of the body. — Meta- 

 morphosis subterranean. 



Species. Icon. 



l.Boa.Cinctaria, Hiibn.|.. .Hiibn. Geom. tab.31. f.l66. (fcem.) 



Curtis, Brit. Ent. ii. pi. 88. 

 2. — Crepuscularia, Hiibn.§ Hiibn.Geom. tab.50. f.l58.(foem.) 



3. — Selenariay Hiibn Hiibn. Geom. tab.31.f. 163. (foem.) 



4. Boa. 



• Gnop. alis cinereis nebulosis, striis obsoletis obscurioribus, margine 

 extcrno macub's albis. — Ochs. Treitsch. vi. ^;ari i. p. 175. 



-f Boahmia, Curtis. 



j Ci.EoRA, Curtis, Stephens. — " Antennte setaceous, long and slender. 

 - — Maxillce slender, not so long as the antennae. — Labial paljii projecting 

 a little beyond the head, obtuse, thickly covered with scales, which extend 

 considerably beyond the apex. — JFiwgi undivided, slightly indented. — Ab- 

 domen robust, conical in the females. — Legs rather stout." — (Extract) — 

 Brit. Ent. ii. pi. 88. 



The genus Cleora was established some years since by Curtis, at which 

 time he had never seen a male of the species he has so very beautifully 

 figured in hi? 88th plate : but having lately received one, lie finds that its 

 antennas are pectinated like those of the genus Alcis ; whilst in Boarmia 

 they are ciliated, or pilose beneath. In consequence of this recently ac- 

 quired information, Curtis has removed the six species with which he ori- 

 ginally supposed that Cleora cinclaria should be associated (on the pro- 

 bable, but, as it has proved, erroneous, assumption that the male insect 

 would be found to have ciliated, not pcctinnlcil, antenna;) to the genus 

 Boarmia. It does not distinctly appear whether Curtis proposes to abolish 

 the Genus Cleora altogether, and tramfev cincl aria to that of Alcis or not. 

 Stephens however, at all events, retains it, including in it Treitschke's 

 Geometra bajularia, and his Boarmia liclicnaria, viduaria; glabraria {tcnc- 

 rnria, Steph.) and cinctaria, and Thunberg's Geometra ^jie^ar/a — (See 

 Syst. Cat. |)art ii. p. l^.'}.) 



^ BoAUMiA, Curtis, Stephens. — ^'Antenna; inserted on the crown of the 

 head, setaceous, clothed with scales above, composed of numerous joints, 



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