LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA 
FAM. GEOMETRID/E 
SUBFAM. HEMITHEINZE 
by Louis B. PROUT 
WITH 5 COLOURED PLATES 
Hemitheidae. Bruand, Mém. Soc. Emul. Doubs, Vol. 2 (2), p. 68 (1846). 
Terpnae. Hübner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 285 (1826 ?) 1). 
Geometridi. Guenée, Duponchel's Cat.: Méth. Lép. Eur. p. 223 (1845) (nec Geometrida, sect. typ., 
Leach, Edinb. Encycl. Vol. 9 (1), p. 134). 
Timandridi (part.). Stephens, List Brit. Anim. Brit. Mus. Vol. 5, p. 225 (1850). 
Geometridae. Guenée, Spec. Gén. Lép. Vol. 9, p. 332 (1858). 
Hazidae. Guenée, ibidem, Vol. ro, p. 188 (1858). 
Geometrinae. Packard, Mon. Geom. U. S. A. p. 366 (1876). 
Euschemidae. Butler, Ill. Het. Coll. Brit. Mus. Vol. 6, p. 48 (1886). 
Nemoriinas. Gumppenberg, Nova Acta Acad. Leop. d. Naturf., Halle, Vol. 49, p. 309 (1887). 
Nemorinae, Gumppenberg, ibidem, p. 340 (1887); Vol. 64, p. 455 (1895). 
Geometridae (part.). Meyrick, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales (2), Vol. 2, p. 835 (1888). 
Pseudoterpninae. Warren, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. p. 349 (1893). 
Dysphaniinae. Warren, Novit. Zool. Vol. 5, p. ro (1898). 
Hemitheinae. Prout, Wytsman's Gen. Ins. Fasc. 103, p. ro (19ro). 
This subfamily has been very generally known by the name of Geometrinae, which, as we have 
shown in our Introduction, is untenable for it, Duponchel's « Chlorochromites », published as a 
substitute for Guenée's Geometridi, was not latinized; moreover the generic name CAlorochroma, on 
1) Founded on an invalid Tentamen name, See our Introduction (Gexera /nsectorum, Fasc. 103), p. 2, 3- 
