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Described from 2 females and i male, taken by Arthur W. 

 Jobbins-Pomeroy at Ibadan, southern Nigeria, January 11 and 

 14, 191 5, on Desmodium lasiocarpum DC, Andropogon tectorum 

 Schum. & Thonn., and BougainmllcEa glabra Choisy. 



Though taken from three species of plants, the series is thor- 

 oughly homogeneous both in color and structure. The absence 

 of. a true occipital line and the reticulate sculpture of the whole 

 occipital area are sufficient to distinguish it from all previously 

 described species. 



SYNCHLORA AVIDARIA N. SP.— (LEP., GEOMETRID^). 



By Richard F. Pears all, Allaben, N. Y. 



Size, wing shape and color very close to 5". denticulata Walk., — a clear, 

 pale pea green, the costa of fore wings above and beneath is narrowly 

 margined with white, sometimes tinged with rose at bases, and the den- 

 ticulate, thread-like white Hnes crosssing both wings are precisely as in 

 denticulata. Fringe green, whitened at outer edge ; and between veins at 

 base, a single white dot forming a partial marginal row. Abdomen above 

 green, marked longitudinally at centre with a white line. Pure white 

 below. Antennae in c? pectinate at base, graduating to simple at apices, 

 snow white above, the pectinations and beneath yellowish. On the ? sim- 

 ple. A broad white band on occiput covers their bases, and there is a 

 narrower one in front above labrum. Front a dull brownish red, quite 

 rosy in some fresh specimens, with a narrow red line often present, divid- 

 ing the white occipital patch from the green collar. Beneath, the wings 

 are silvery white with a greenish cast, without markings. The body and 

 legs snow white, excepting the front femora which are green. 



Type (^ from Palmerlee, Cochise Co., Arizona (June), was taken many 

 years ago by the late Henry W. Marsden, and is in the collection of the 

 American Museum of Natural History in New York. 



The allotype 5 from Oracle, Arizona, June 30, 1904, came to me from 

 Mr. E. J. Oslar, and is in the same collection. A paratype 5 is from the 

 same source, taken at Oracle on the same day. 



The Species here described I have had from Florida, Arizona 

 and San Diego, Cal. It may easily be separated from denticulata, 

 a southeastern species, which has the front green ; and, in its 

 western habitat, from liquoraria Gu., with its red front, by wing 

 texture and its clear green color, not inclined to yellowish, as in 

 the latter. 



