NO. H56. NEW GEOMETRID MOTHS— WARREN. 529 



a curved gray band to anal angle; apical area rather paler; a gray mar- 

 ginal line and gray fringe. 



Hindwlng. — Similar, without first line; submarginal band and fringe 

 paler. 



Under side pale ochreous with sparse olive dusting; middle line faint; 

 the cell spots linear, gray; a dark fuscous band beyond outer line, the 

 marginal area beyond fuscous-speckled; the veins fuscous. 



Face and palpi dull brown; vertex, thorax, and abdomen like wings. 



Expanse of trings. — 24 mm. 



Locality. — Orizaba, Mexico; 1 female. 



Hind margin of forewing faintly excised below apex, then rounded; 

 hindwing with blunt angle at middle. The whole insect has a faint 

 greenish tinge. 



Type.—Q^X. No. 939.5, U.S.N.M. 



SEMIOTHISA LIQUATA, new species. 



Foreioing. — Wood-brown; costal edge ochreous, striped with blackish , 

 oblique dark brown streaks from costa at one-fifth, two-fifths, and two- 

 thirds, the lines from them obscure, but marked with black on subme- 

 dian vein, the outer line on all the veins; beyond outer line a dark 

 brown band, intensified into a blotch at costa and bounded b}' a very 

 indistinct submarginal line running to anal angle; marginal area brown 

 except for a lilac-gray apical patch containing two black costal spots, 

 a black marginal line; fringe brown with a pale ochreous dash at apex. 



Hindwlng. — With the lines plainer; the antemedian line preceded 

 by black scaling be3^ond a pale base; the interval between postmedian 

 and submarginal lines darker and the submarginal line paler. 



Under side fulvous-yellow, densely striated with dark brown; median 

 shades and cell spots dark brown; outer half of forewing dark brown 

 with some white spots before apex; in hindwing the marginal area 

 below middle f uU^ous-yellow. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen wood-brown; al)domen below, yellowish. 



Expanse of wings. — 22 mm. 



Locality. — Peru; 1 male. 



Forewing not excised; hindwing crenulate, elbowed onl}- at middle. 

 No fovea in forewing. 



Ty2)e.—C?ii. No. 9396, U.S.N.M. 



SEMIOTHISA MULTISTRIATA, new species. 



Forewing. — Whitish, thickly covered with ashy gray strife; the 

 lines and shadings all of the same color; these are placed almost 

 exactly as in S. carpo Druce, the outer line being marked by two 

 black conspicuous spots on veins 3 and 4; marginal area darker, being 

 suffused with gray, forming a broad band near the outer line; beyond 

 the very obscure submarginal line, the margin is flecked with whitish, 

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