(iEOMETRID^. — CLEOGENE. 291 



Genus CCXXVII. — Cleogene, DuponcJiel 



Palpi very short, velvety, acute : maxilla; very long. Antennas bipectinated in 

 the males, simple in the females : luings rounded, all of one colour ; cilia 

 short : legs slender. 



Cleogene has the antennae slightly bipectinated in the males, but 

 the genus is distinguished by that character united to the total 

 want of markings on the wings, which are of plain uniform colours, 

 considerably rounded on their hinder margin, and have very short 

 cilia. I have seen but one specimen (a female) belonging to the 

 genus, and am consequently only able to give the above brief 

 character taken from Duponchel's Synopsis of the genera of Geo- 

 metridse. 



t Sp. 1. tinctaria. Alis omnibus luteis immaculatis. (Exp. alar. 1 unc. 4^ lin.) 



Ge. tinctaria. Hiibner.—U\. tinctaria. Steplu Catal. part ii. p. 147. No. 6681. 

 note. 



All the wings luteous immaculate ; antennae black or fuscous. 



During the printing of my Catalogue I was informed that this insect had been 

 captured in Worcestershire, and admitted it into our Fauna upon that autho- 

 rity, accompanied by a sign expressing that I had never seen it ; but the spe- 

 cimen having been subsequently forwarded to me, proved, upon inspection, 

 to be merely a perfectly immaculate variety of Angerona Prunaria; I conse- 

 quently inserted its name in ItaHcs in my Nomenclature, by way of showing 

 that it was not indigenous ; but as Mr. Curtis has recently again recorded it 

 without doubt as British, I have placed it in the body of the page, instead of 

 in a foot-note as usual. 



I know not in what part of Britain this species has been cap- 

 tured. 



Sp. 2. niveata. Alisniveis immaculatis; anticis subtusfuscescentibus. (Exp. alar. 



II lin.) 



Ph. niveata. Scop.— Mi. niveata. Steph. Catal. part ii. p. 147. No. 6682. 



Head, thorax, and anterior wings pearly white, immaculate; abdomen and 

 posterior wings snow-white ; cilia very short 5 anterior wings beneath brownish. 

 This cannot be the Ph. nivearia of Fabricius, which he gives as a native of 

 England, as that insect has the wings angulated, with their hinder margins 

 fuscous, and the posterior wings with a black central dot : what the Fabrician 

 insect is intended for I am at a loss to conjecture. 



The only example I know of this species I received from Scot- 

 land. 



