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middle of the wing. The inner line, situated on the inner third 

 of the wing, has three large acute bends, and is broadest on the 

 costa ; the outer line is divided into six acute bends. There is 

 a large round black discal dot. The fringe is white, black at 

 the end of the venules. The hind wings are white and dusted 

 with black scales near the outer edge, with the discal dot prom- 

 inent ; the outer waved line with acute scallops. The fringe is 

 as in the fore wings. The head is yellow between the antennae, 

 and the front is square and white. Beneath much as above, but 

 duller in hue. The wings expand 1.15 of an inch. 



The pupa is rather thick, white, with a broad light brown 

 band along the back, becoming widest in the middle of the body. 

 There is also a narrow brown band along the side of the body, 

 and on the under side of the abdomen are four longitudinal 

 stripes of the same color. The wings are slashed with light 

 brown and the antennae and fore legs are concolorous, while the 

 middle and hind legs are white. It is .44 of an inch in length. 



The Pine Parennomos. — This rare and beautiful moth which 

 is undescribed, and for which I would propose the name Paren- 

 nomos piniata, has been raised by Mr. Saunders of London, 

 Canada, from a larva found on the pine in the autumn of 1865, 

 the moth appearing the next May on the 20th. 



It is an ochreous brown moth, with unusually opaque wings, 

 those of most of this beautiful family of moths (the Geometers, 

 or Phalgenidse), being more or less transparent. The head, 

 antennae and thorax are pale ochreous, the antennae of the 

 male being furnished with short thick pectinations ; the palpi 

 are short, not passing beyond the front of the head, with the 

 third joint short and minute. The fore wings are deep ochre- 

 ous and paler at base ; on the inner fourth is a white line form- 

 ing a single large and acute angle on the median vein, along 

 which it is prolonged beyond the basal third of the wing. There 

 is a* large irregular silvery white discal dot, and just beyond a 

 broad silvery line diffuse on the outside ; it curves inwards just 

 below the median vein, and curves slightly inwards opposite the 

 discal dot. Half-way between this line and the outer edge of 

 the wing is a row of irregular white spots from which run whit- 

 ish streaks to the fringe, which between the white spots is ochre- 

 ous brown. These markings show through faintly on the under 

 side. The hind wings are pale whitish ochreous above, beneath 



