new Species o/Geometridaj. 709 



Nephodia [Nipteria] admiration is, sp. ii. 



cJ ? . 45-49 mm. — Head and thorax grey, marked with 

 fuscous. Palpus blackish. Abdomen grey, marked with 

 fuscous at the segmental incisions. Fore wing shining grey, 

 costal edge (more broadly at base) blackish, costal area, 

 apical one-third (or more) of wing and terminal area to 

 tornus irrorated witii fuscous, especially at apex, where the 

 effect of a fuscous cloud is produced ; cell-spot moderately 

 large, fuscous; a faint fuscous line discernible at about 

 5-6 mm. from termen ; fringe blotched with fuscous at 

 vein-ends. Hind wing wholly irrorated and mottled with 

 fuscous, a rather large dark cell-spot and a dark dash on 

 cell-foldj nearly as in exclamationis, Warr. ; no line; fringe 

 as in fore wing. Underside similarly but very much more 

 darkly marked ; hind wing with a blurred, curved postmedian 

 line discernible. 



San Antonio, W. Colombia, 5800 feet, November 1907 

 (M. G. Palmer). Type ( ? ) in Coll. L. B. Prout. Two 

 females from same locality, December 1907, m coll. L. B. 

 Prout. One male from same locality, 24tli August, 1908 

 (Fassl), kindly presented by M. Doguin, who informs me 

 that he has three or four other ni des agreeing witli this, two 

 of them rather larger, better-marked, with the postmedian 

 line more distinct. 



Closely related to iV. exclamationis, Warr. Nov. Zool. xi. 

 p. 547, but differs in having the wings somewhat narrower, 

 darker, weaker-marked above (especially the postmedian 

 line) ; underside with the same distinctions, in particular the 

 hind wing uniformly dark, yet with the " exclamation '•* or 

 " admiration^' mark well expressed, its — generally longer. 

 It would seem to be the insect described by Warren (Nov. 

 Zool. xvi. p. 100) as N. obeliscata ? , but it is quite distinct 

 from the type {S) and is now known to occur in both 

 sexes. 



Nephodia (^Nipteria^ tegrotans, sp. n. 



S . 35-39 mm. — Face and palpus ochreous brown ; vertex 

 pale ochreous grey. Antennae grey, the shaft tinged with 

 ochreous. Thorax and abdomen pale ochreous grey, in 

 places whiter. Fore wing dirty white, costa to SC, apex 

 rather broadly and termen except at tornus (narrowing off 

 to a point posteriorly) smoke-grey ; veins conspicuously 

 darkened ; a dark cell-mark ; a dark streak from costa to R^, 

 4 or 5 mm. distant from termen. Hind wing almost uniform 

 whitish grey, with a small indistinct cell-spot. Underside 



