NO. 1-156. NEW GEOMETRID MOTHS— ]YARREN. 549 



spots black, outer line shown by black spots on veins and marked by a 

 whitish spot on costa. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen ooncolorous with ^v^ings. 



Expanse of vnngs.—^'^ mm. 



Locality. — Cordoba, Mexico; 1 female. 



Type.—O^X. No. 9434, U.S.N.M. 



Genus NEM ATOCAMPA Guenee. 

 NEMATOCAMPA FALSA, nev/ species. 



Foreicing. — Pale ochreous, with a slight rufous-olive Hush, and finely 

 dusted with reddish and purplish atoms; costa purplish, two purplish 

 oblique streaks from costa at two-fifths and three-fourths, represent- 

 ing- the two lines, which are marked by a rufous dot on submedian 

 vein at one-third and three-fourths; cell spot purple; submarginal 

 line indicated by a rufous blotch below vein 6 and a slighter one at 

 anal angle; marginal line deep purple; fringe ochreous mottled with 

 purplish. 



Hinchoing. — With an olive shade beyond middle, narrow on inner 

 margin, and swelling out in middle, containing a purple cell spot and 

 speckled with red; marginal line and fringe as in fore wing. 



Under side whitish ochreous; costa of forewing and hind margin of 

 both wings purplish, and a purplish shade from costa to hind margin 

 before apex of forewing; cell spots purplish, small. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen like wings; dorsum with pairs of red 

 spots; vertex purple. 



Expanse of vnngs.—''2\ mm. 



Locality. — St. Jean, Maroni River, French Guiana; 1 male, April, 

 1904. 



This species mimics the Sterrhid genus Ilxnialea. 



Type.—Vj2X. No. 9435, U.S.N.M. 



Genus NEODONTOPERA, ne^A^ genus. 



Foreiiiing. — With hind margin elbowed at vein 3 and 6. 



Hindwing. — With hind margin rounded, crenulate. 



Antenna3 of male strongly bipectinate, the pectination sciliated; palpi 

 hairy; second segment thick, terminal short, bent forward; tongue 

 and frenulum well developed. 



Neuration. — Forewing, cell more than half as long as wings; disco- 

 cellular vertical, very fine; median and subcostal veins both inbent 

 toward end of cell; first median nervule at three-fourths, second 

 shortly before third; lower radial (vein 5) from top end of discocel- 

 lular, just below 6; 7, 8, 9 stalked, 10, 11 free; hindwing, with costal 

 ' and subcostal approximating for half of cell; 7 well before end. 



Tyjye. — Neodontopera einerea^ new species. 



