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tion ; apical wliite sliade not as extended. Fringes ashen ; discal lunate mark 

 brown ; from tliis tlie scalloped transverse posterior lineas externally further 

 removed than in H. subrotata. Secondaries vi^hite, with an incomplete whitish 

 median shade ; terminal line black, even ; fringes ashen, pale at base, cut with 

 darker hairs at extremity of the veins. 



Expanse, 18 m. m. Larva on Hackberry {Celtis occidentalis). 



The specimen was received from Mr. C. V. Eiley. It is the small- 

 est species of lieterocampa yet known to science. 



GEOMETIUE. 



Larentia Oeneiformis, Ilarvey, Plate 11, fig. 5. 



9 . — Wings entire ; upper surface ashen or cinereous with a smoky tinge ; 

 costal region and terminal portions of the fore wings darker ; primaries with 

 three white and broad bands, marked on costa but discontinuous ; the third 

 (outer median) more continuous, angulated at vein 5 and indistinctly discern- 

 ible towards the internal margin ; the first and second bands are approximate, 

 discontinued ; the costal region above the subcostal nervure is here reticu- 

 lated ; fringes Avhite, distinctly cut with dark at the extremity of the ner- 

 vules up to and within the depressed and rounded apices. Terminally the 

 nervules are darker marked ; hind wings smoky ashen, with wliite fringes as 

 on fore wings ; below the primaries are largely smoky ashen, but along the 

 costal region the three wliite bands of the ujiper surface again ajjpear, the 

 costal region is tinged with olivaceous and beautifully striated with black, 

 leaving the apices whitish with costal black dots ; the hind wings are entirely 

 covered with irregular and fine black striations on a white ground ; a median 

 white baud can be made out, followed below costa, and again on internal mar- 

 gin, by more distinct striae on an olivaceous ground ; fringes on both wings 

 tinged with reddish ; thorax ashen with two white vittae ; front dark ; the 

 secondaries have the cell closed, outwardly prolonged inferiorly ; vein 5 

 equally strong. 



Exjxinse, 33 ni. m. Habitat, Montreal, Mr. F. Caulfield. 



Resembles superficially the species of the genus Oeneis {Chion- 

 ohas), in the ornamentation of the wings. 



Scotosia dubitata, L., Plate 11, fig. 7 2 . 



3 5 . — This is a large bright brown species with dentate wings ; the fore 

 wings are covered by numerous wavy black lines, followed by pale shades, 

 while the subterminal line appears wholly pale. The four usual transverse 

 lines are distinguishable, darker than the rest. The base of the wing and me- 



