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Eupithecia palpata Pack. (Fifth Rep. Peab. Acad. Sci., 58, 1873). 



This specimen was made a synonym of E. lueata Pack., by 

 Packard himself in his Monograph of the Geometrid Moths. 

 In the paper by Mr. Taylor, above referred to, it is listed as 

 a species*, a conclusion that I myself had arrived at after 

 a study of the types. Besides the difference in size and color, 

 as stated by Packard, when he made the two species one, the 

 extradiscal line in hit eat a is angulated on vein R 3 , while the 

 corresponding line in palpata is evenly rounded, and the palpi 

 in the former are only half as long as in the latter. E. col it 111- 

 biata Dyar, described from British Columbia,' is a close ally 

 of luteata. 

 Eupithecia subcolorata Hulst (Can. Ent. xxx, 114, 1898). 



Dr. Hulst described this species from at least three speci- 

 mens representing two species. One type, a male, without 

 locality and labelled as having been taken in August, is in 

 the Brooklyn Institute Museum, and is the same as a male type 

 at New Brunswick, from the San Francisco Mts., Ariz., 

 8-10,000 feet, July 20, 1907. To this insect Mr. Pearsall and 

 myself agree to hold the specific name, since the underside, 

 the maculation of which is characteristic, was obviously de- 

 scribed from it. The third type, a female, from Arizona, 

 August, is a smaller moth, as yet undescribed ; but its con- 

 dition does not warrant making it the type of a new species. 

 In describing the upper surface of subcolorata Hulst drew his 

 diagnosis largely from this species, so the description is a bad 

 misfit to the insect, to which we have limited the name. To 

 render the species recognizable I append herewith a redescrip- 



tion of subcolorata. 



Expanse, 21 mm. Palpi and front blackish with scattered white 

 scales ; vertex almost entirely covered with whitish scales ; collar white. 

 Thorax clothed with about equal numbers of black and whitish scales, 

 the anterior part and base of patagia wholly black. Abdomen behind 

 first segment darker than thorax. Ground color of all wings whitish, 

 the primaries lightly suffused with blackish scales which collect into 

 a series of strong and contrasting black lines that form cross lines 

 of the ground color. The first of these white lines, the basal, is double 

 * This position is not maintained in a continuation of his paper (Can. Ent., xxxix,276). 



