NO. 1456. NEW GEOMETRID MOTHS— WARREN. 547 



from tivesixths of costa, where it is followed by a white spot, shortly 

 ol>lique to vein 7, where it is angled and runs obliquely curved to 

 three-fifths of inner margin; followed by white dashes on veins; the 

 narrow central area paler yellow and less striated; cell spot ])lack; 

 fringe concolorous. 



Hlndwlng. — With the line faint and antemedian, all but touching 

 the small cell spot; basal area paler. 



Under side uniform dull yellow% paler than upper side and without 

 striations except along a slightly darker marginal space; cell spots 

 small and dark. 



Head brown; thorax and abdomen deep yellow like forewings; 

 under side and legs pale yellow, without dusting, like wings beneath. 



Eivpanse of icings. — 4A mm. 



Locality. — St. Jean, Maroni River, French Guiana. 



Belongs to the group containing tri/chiata and tmpezata Guenee. 

 The antennae are armed with sessile fascicles of cilia. 



Type.— Cat. No. 9431, U.S.N.M. 



Genus MIMOGONODES Warren. 

 MIMOGONODES ? SUBSIGNATA, new species. 



Forewing. — Yellowish testaceous, thickly speckled with fuscous; 

 the costa deeper scaled; first line marked only by three black dots on 

 the veins; median shade rust-color, inconspicuous, from two-thirds of 

 costa bej^ond middle of inner margin, lunulate-dentate, the lunule 

 between veins 2 and 3 fuscous and followed by a blotch of fuscous 

 scales; outer line from five-sixths of costa to three-fourths of inner 

 margin, marked by black vein dots; the dot on vein 5 displaced base- 

 ward, that on vein 2 lost in the blotch of median line; a dot also on 

 inner margin; cell mark pale rust-color, extending along the discocel- 

 lular, minute black dots at the vein ends; fringe concolorous. 



Hindiving. — Without first line; the median shade passing over cell 

 spot. 



Under side 3"elIowish straw-color, speckled with fuscous; a broad 

 dark fuscous fascia from three-fourths of costa to anal angle, project- 

 ing a spur to margin above vein 4; the outer line marked on its outer 

 edge at costa and curving inward from its inner edge at vein 3; a broad 

 dark line from cell mark to inner margin; these markings less exten- 

 sive in hindwing. 



Face and terminal segment of palpi dark brown; vertex, thorax, 

 and abdomen concolorous with wings; legs, palpi, and antennae all 

 straw-color. 



Expanne of wings. — 40 mm. 



Locality. — Aroa, Venezuela; 1 female. 



