GEOMETRIDjE. — APLOCERA. 295 



Sp. 2. punctata. Alis niveis, puncto medio nigro, anticis liturd margineque ex- 

 terna fusco subundato. (Exp. alar. 1 unc. 1—4 lin.) 



Ph. punctata. Fabricius.—Ba.. punctata. Steph. Caial. part ii. p. 147. No. 

 6684. 



Wings snow-white, aU with a central black dot, largest on the anterior, which 

 last has a short fuscous streak on the inner margin in a line with the dot, and 

 the hinder margin itself has an undulated fascia of the same hue, clouded with 

 a darker tinge towards the apex, and having a row of elongate black dots on 

 the extreme edgej cilia fuscescent, whitish or snowy towards the anal angle: 

 posterior wings with two evanescent undulated strigffi on the hinder margin: 

 a blackish line on the margin, and the cilia white. 



Found in June at Darentli-wood, and in its vicinity. " Epping." 

 Mr. Douhleday. " Strand-on-tlie-green;'-i2^t;. A. H. Matthews. 



Genus CCXXXL— Aplocera* miU. 



Palpi short, slender, acute, remote, obtuse, densely clothed to the apex with 

 rather short compact scales ^ triarticulate ; the basal joint elongate, slender, 

 curved upwards; second much shorter, subcylindric ; terminal ovate-acu- 

 minate: maxillas rather short. Antennce short, slender, perfectly simple in 

 both sexes: head small, xonxxA ; forehead prominent; eyes globose, rather 

 prominent: thorax slender, simple: wings ample, entire; posterior margin 

 rounded ; anterior elongate, triangular, transversed with numerous undulated 

 strigre, condensed occasionally into a central fascia ; posterior long, generally of 

 a pakr hue and very obsoletely strigated : abdomen long, slender, compressed at 

 the base, the back carinated, the terminal segments with conspicuous margins, 

 the apex with a straight tuft. 



The antennae of Aplocera are perfectly simple in both sexes; the 

 forehead is very prominent, and the wings simple, the anterior 

 thickly traversed with numerous waved strigse ; the abdomen rather 

 strongly carinated, and the base compressed. 



Sp 1 csesiata. AUsanticisalbidis,atomisccerulescentibnsfnscisque,fasciddentatd 



'obseuriore ad costam bifidS, puneto medio atro. (Exp. alar. 1 unc. 3-6 lin.) 



Ge. cffisiata. Wien. Fer^.-Ap. cssiata. Steph. Catal. part ii. p. 141. No. 6625. 



Anterior wings whitish-ash, irrorated with bluish and fuscous, and thickly 



marked with undulated strig^, condensed into a broad dentate fascia, m the 



middle of the wing, having a pale patch, in which is a fuscous dot, on or 



A^rXsof, simplex ; »sj«?, cornu. 



