DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW GENERA AND SPEC^IES OF SOUTH 

 AMERICAN GEOMETRID MOTHS. 



By William Warren, 



of London, England. 



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 ^Ju^ following species are described from the collection of Mr 

 William Schaus, and comprise the new forms contained among the 

 specimens which he put in my hands for determination. A majority 

 of the species are from the Guianas, but others are included from 

 difterent parts of the neotropical region, Mexico, Cuba, and Brazil. 

 Ihe types are in the U. S. National Museum. 



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Family LTRANIID^E. 



Subfamily EPIPLEMilJsr^E;, 



Genus ANTIPLECTA Warren. 



ANTIPLECTA CAESIA, new species. 



Farewing.-Blackish slate-color; the lines darker; first angled out- 

 wards in middle, the outer outcurved above, indented on submedian 

 told, where it approaches inner line, then again outcurved, preceded 

 throughout by blacker shading, which on inner margin forms a dark 

 blotch between the two lines; a blackish line from below apex to 

 below vein 4 on hind margin, with black spots between the veins- 

 rringe concolorous. ' 



Mndtoly. -With the two lines black and curved, the space between 

 them blacker, both plainer toward inner margin, the outer with a pale 

 edge. Under side dark gray in forewing, whitish in hindwing 



Head, thorax and abdomen blackish; face black; vertex and anten- 

 nal shaft snow-white; antennas of male with thick clavate teeth. 



Expanse of wings. — 17 mm. 



Zom^^We^.— Jalapa, Mexico, one male, one female; Orizaba, Mexico 

 one male. ' 



Hindwing in both sexes minutely dentate at veins 7, H, and \- the 

 told beneath on inner margin of male hindwing with its tuft of hairs 

 svhitish. 



Ty^^.— Cat. No. 9144, U.S.N.M. 



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