Vol. XXX] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 245 



A New Geometrid from Arizona (Lepid.). 



By Wm. Barnes, M.D. & A. W. Lindsey, Ph.D., Decatur, 



Illinois. 

 In the ''Novitates Zoologicae" XXV, p. 376, under his new 

 genus Anuraptcryx, Sir George F. Hampson mentions an un- 

 described species of which Dr. McDunnough has informed 

 him. The species is represented in the Barnes collection by 

 two females, from which we have drawn up the following 

 description. 



Anurapteryx crenulata sp. nov. 



Vestiture of head and thorax luteous with the scales dark gray 

 near the tips. Front paler. Antennae brown with luteous scales 

 above, powdered with gray scales and obscurely annulate toward base. 

 Abdomen luteous, powdered with gray. Under surface similar. 



Primaries above pinkish luteous with a broad transverse median 

 band heavily powdered with dark gray scales, widest from cubitus to 

 costa, constricted behind cubitus, and widened again just before inner 

 margin. Outer margin of band scalloped, inner very indefinite. Basal 

 area paler, powdered with gray. Median band followed by a narrow 

 band of the ground color, which is the most conspicuous feature of 

 the wing. This band shades into fuscous toward the s. t. line. There 

 is a subterminal series of slightly paler lunules, outwardly edged with 

 dark gray. Terminal area and fringes concolorous with lunules, cut 

 by ground color at veins. Veins alternately marked with dark gray 

 and pinkish luteous. Entire wing with obscure, slender, powdery, 

 transverse lines, outwardly scalloped, which may be so indistinct as 

 to give it a strigate appearance. Under surface with the outer mar- 

 gin of the median band distinctly marked; basal half grayish. Sub- 

 terminal dark shade visible, terminal area pale, sharply separated 

 from dark shade on the crenulate s. t. line. 



Secondaries: Basal half powdered with gray, this area terminating 

 in an irregular dark line which is lost toward the costa. Beyond this 

 the wing is similar to the primaries, but a little more pinkish and 

 more evenly powdered. Under surface with dark line reproduced. 

 Terminal half of wing powdered with gray except near dark line. 

 Veins as above. Entire wing a little more pinkish than the primaries. 



The crenulate lines of the paratype are less definite than 

 those of the type, giving the specimen a regularly strigate 

 appearance, and there are a few other minor differences in 

 the markings. The species differs from beckeri Druce (Biol. 



