FAMILY GEOMETRID^. 249 



Geometra transversata. (Plate xlii, fig. 2.) 



Antennae filiform, orange brown. Wings angulated, dashed with short darker lines, and 

 shaded with about three dark parallel stripes. Anterior and posterior wings marked 

 with a waving continuous line, beginning at the acute outer angle of the former, and 

 terminating a little below the middle of the latter : they are also bordered with a 

 narrow belt of a similar color. Underside of the wings similar in color and markings, 

 except in the brown waving line. Expansion of wing, two inches. ( Westwogd's 

 Illustrations of Drury, plate viii, fig. 2.) 



Geometra serrata. (Plate xl, fig. 6.) 



Antennae setaceous or filiform. Head reddish buff-color. Thorax, abdomen and wings 

 yellowish bufi". Both pair of wings scollopped, and broadly bordered with brownish 

 or deeper buff : also the same color is found at the base of the forewings, but paler ; 

 and a transverse hand upon the posterior, with dashes of the same over the yellow 

 part. The border of the forewings is forked near the outer angle, and the anterior 

 edge is ornamented with brown and white oblong spots. ( Westwood, Illustrations of 

 Drury, plate xx, fig. 4.) 



Geometra catenaria ( Drury). Chain-dotted Geometer. ( Plate xli, fig. 10.) 



Phal^na catenaria. Bupalus catenarius ( Leach). 



Antennae in the male doubly pectinated, slender. Head orange. Thorax, abdomen and 

 wings white : the former is marked with three orange- colored spots, and each ring 

 of the abdomen with dots or black transverse lines ; the wings are also marked by 

 two parallel denticulated lines running across them. The wings are rounded behind, 

 and margined with a black dotted line having some resemblance to a chain. ( See 

 Westwood, Illustrations of Drury, plate viii, fig. 3.) 



Geometra 1 . ( Plate xlv, fig. 3.) 



Wings subangulated, subcrenate on the outer margin. 



This moth I am disposed to refer to the Genus Geometra, relying upon the form of the 

 wings and the pattern of their ornamental marking. The color is cinnamon-brown, and the 

 white transverse band near the middle is bordered by a deeper brown on the basal side. 

 The costa is darker, being connected with the transverse band already referred to. Hind- 

 wing lighter colored at the base than the outer half. 



I have been unable to obtain the larva, and htnce it cannot be determined whether it 

 has the progression peculiar to the geometridae. There is some doubt as to the genus to 

 which it should be referred. 



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