152 GEOMETEIDJ^. 



Eupithecia lucmda, Butl. (Plate CLXX. fig. 11.) 

 Eupithecia lucinda, Bidl. Ann. N. H. (5) iv. p. 442 (1879). 



Expanse | inch. 



Pale olive-green, slightly irroratecl with black scales. Fore wing with numerous in- 

 distinct waved olive lines; the costa blackish; subbasal, ante- and postmedial ill-defined 

 curved black bands, the last angled below the costa and only extending to the third median 

 nervule; a blackish submarginal patch above third median nervule; cilia blackish. Hind 

 win'' pale fuscous, some olive suffusion towards outer margin ; an indistinct curved post- 

 medial line and marginal line. 



Eupithecia ruflfascia. (Plate CLXXI. fig. 15.) 



Expanse, c? i, ? | inch. 



Male and Female. Head, thorax, and abdomen green, speckled with black scales. Fore 

 wing with the basal area green, except the costal portion, which is red-brown ; a broad medial 

 red-brown band occupying half the wing, edged internally and externally by waved black 

 lines, and traversed through the middle by a similar line ; outer area green, with a blackish 

 suffusion ; an indistinct waved black submarginal line ; all these black lines are edged by a 

 few white scales. Hind wing green, with five waved black transverse lines. Cilia reddish, 

 with fuscous tips. 



Eupithecia emarginaria. (Plate CLXXI. fig. 14.) 



Expanse § inch. 



Male and Female. Pale reddisli brown ; abdomen with a dark band on the third segment 

 above. Fore wing with some red along the proximal half of the costa ; some very indistinct 

 waved transverse lines, the most prominent being an angulated postmedial line inwardly 

 edged by red. Hind wing with a deep scallop below the apex and slighter emargination 

 towards the anal angle ; some very indistiuct waved transverse lines, the postmedial being 

 the most definable. 



LEIOCERA, g. n. 



Male. Anteuntc minutely ciliated, but not annulated. Palpi with the second and third 

 joints longer and more slender than in Eupithecia. Hind tibiae with two pairs of spurs. 

 Venation as in Eupithecia. 



Type L. axis. 



Leiocera ferrisparsata. (Plate CLXXI. fig. 8.) 



Expanse \^ inch. 



Female. Fore legs, palpi, head, collar, and bands on the first three segments of the 

 abdomen ferruginous. Antennaj brown ; abdomen and wings silky white, irroratcd with 

 dark-brown scales ; the wings crossed by about nine slender waved brown lines and a distinct 



