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Meghypena veHfera, Orote, plate 2, fig 7 ? . 



The ground color, whicli obtaiiia over the basal and terminal fields of the 

 fore wings, is pale ochrey, covered with dark strigae as in the Qeometrid genus 

 Endropia. These marks are visible all along the costa. On the internal mar- 

 gin at extreme base the wing shows a dark shade. The first of the median 

 lines is outwardly acutelj- projected on the median nervure, below which 

 it runs evenly inwardly to internal margin. Above that point it runs 

 inversely to costa, being inwardly dentate below costal nervure. The median 

 space is purply blackish with the ordinary spots black and distinct. The 

 median lines show accompanying deep brownish shades on the median space 

 that meet centrally below the median nervure. Outer median line even, 

 like the inner line in appearance, bent at median nervure and running 

 inwardly below it to internal margin. Subtermiual line consisting of an 

 undulating series of clouded blackish spots tipped outwardly by white scales. 

 A large diffuse brown shade lies onexternal margin below the apices, obliquely 

 margined superiorly. Terminal line dark, interrupted. Hind wings fuscous, 

 without markings, with a dark suboontinuous terminal line, and with the 

 discal mark and strigae of the under-surface reflected ; fringes stained with 

 ochreous. A primary wing measures 20 m. m. along the costa. 



Habitat, Sharon Springs, X. Y. (0. Meske coll.) 



Meghypeiia lenti^inosa, Orote. 



3 . — Resembles the preceding species strongly in ornamentation but not 

 in color. The primaries are fuscous, but little darker than the secondaries. 

 The median space does not contrast, but dark brown shades line the median 

 lines and extend centrally below the median nervure as in M. velifera. The 

 ordinary spots have the same representation. None of the usual markings 

 contrast on the primaries in this duller-hued species which seems to exceed 

 M. velifera in size, while agreeing with it in the details of the ornamentation, 

 and especially that, on the fore wings beneath, the simple more prominent 

 black dot followed by whitish scales, below the costa, and whicli inaugurates 

 the obsolete subtermiual line, is quite evident. Bearing in mind the varia- 

 bility of Zanclognatha laevigata, Orote, and Renia discoloralis, Ouenee, the 

 union of the two species I here declare seems probable, and yet the effect 

 produced on my mind by the specimens I have now under consideration, is 

 that of having to do with two distinct species. It seems unlikely that the 

 bright-hued M. velifera with the pale ochrey ground color of the primaries 

 should be specifically identical with the sombre-hued M. lentiginosa, which 

 recalls in appearance the species of Macrhypena. A primary wing of M. lent- 

 iginosa measures 22 m. m. along the costal region. 



HaUiat, Albany, N. Y. (3339, coll. Lintner). 



