NEW GEOMETRID MOTHS— WARREN. 513 



Expanse of wings. — 37 mm. 



Locality. — Omai, British Gaiana; 1 male. Exceedingly like the 

 European Aids gemmaria. 



Ti/j)e.— Cat. No. 9367, U.S.N.M. 



IRIDOPSIS RUFISPARSA, new species. 



Forewing. — White, freckled with gray, more strongl}^ in male than 

 in female; lines blackish, rising from dark gray costal spots; the tirst 

 before one-tliird inwardly curved to one-tifth of inner margin, the 

 outer from two-thirds of costa, obliquely curved outward and forming 

 a blunt projection on vein 5, then twice sinuous inward, slightly 

 angled on vein 2 and again just above inner margin, which it reaches 

 at middle; the tirst line is preceded and the outer followed by a par- 

 allel gray shade containing bright red scales, some of them also 

 appearing on the inner line itself; a gray median line bent outward 

 beyond cell, then incurved; cell mark large, of raised Avhite scales, 

 surrounded with olive scales and with bright red scales in middle; 

 submarginal line lunulate between gray shading of varying intensity, 

 the inner deeper beyond the cell and on hind margin to vein 7, where 

 the dark is abruptly cut otf, leaving the apex pale; a tine marginal 

 line, preceded by a distinct series of black spots; fringe white, mottled 

 with gray beyond veins. 



Hinchcing. — With a black basal dash, a waved antemedian line 

 ending in a dark spot on middle of inner margin; outer line angled on 

 the fold, the shade beyond it reddish brown; the cell mark trilobed, 

 edged with dark. 



Under side with a slight gray flush; cell spots large and dark, with 

 the median shade obscurely marked; a broad blackish marginal border, 

 narrowing and becoming fainter toward anal angle; leaving apex 

 white and a pale patch between veins 3 and 4 on forewing; fainter 

 and submarginal on hindwing. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen white, mixed with gray in the male, 

 which also has the face and palpi gray; abdomen v/ith a strong black 

 belt at base; the dorsal segments with pairs of red spots and in the 

 male tinged with gray. 



Expanse of wings. — Male, 38 mm.; female, 44 mm. 



Locality. — Santiago, Cuba; 1 male, November; 1 female, June, 1902. 



The red scales are easily overlooked, and are most plentiful in the 

 male. lam inclined to believe this is the insect identified with ^ar- 

 varia Guenee by Herrich-Schaeffer and Gundlach. 



Ty2)e.—Q?ii. No. 9368, U.S.N.M. 



IRIDOPSIS TRANSVISATA, new species. 



i^w'6^w;m^. —Semiiiy aline whitish, with a faint green tint, finely pep- 

 pered with black scales; costa ochreous, streaked and spotted with 

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