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black spots, a submarginal row of dark lunules, and the margin with a row of black dots ; the hind wings with 



a row of dusky dots across the middle. Taken in the New Forest in June. 



'' Synohvmes. — Geomelra viduaria, Wiener Vera. ; Hubner ; Stephens, 111. H. 3, pi. 30, fig. 2 ; Wood, fig. .500. 



Geomelra angularia, TImnbei-g. 



Species 4. — Cleora teneraria *". — (Plate LX., Fig. 13.) — This species measures about li inch in the 

 expanse of the fore wings, whicli arc ashy white, irrorated with dusky atoms, and four dark dots on the costa, 

 from which arise the same number of nearly obsolete striga; ; a dark spot in the middle of all the wings, and a 

 patch near the apex of the fore wings, the margin being sometimes dusky, with an undulated pale striga ; the S/ai" ft^tiAi 

 hind wings with an indistinct striga beyond the middle. Rare. New Forest, and near Edinburgh, about the 

 beginning of July. 



e Synonymes. — Geomelra teneraria, Hubner ; Stephens ; Wood, fijr. 501. 

 Geometra glabraria^Hnhxicr ; Treitschkc ; Duponchcl ; Boisduval. 



Species 5. — Cleora cinctaria f.. — (Plate LX., Fig. 14.) — This variable species measures rather more than 

 \\ inch in expanse of the fore wings, which are whitish, varied with ochreous, gray and brown, darker at the base and 

 apical margin, the former with two incurved black strigse, an oval ocellus in the middle, followed by two curved 

 and waved pale strigie, edged with dark lines ; the margin spotted with black ; the hind wings with several 

 slender dark strigae, and a central ocellus. Taken in the New Forest, in May and June. 



' SYNONvaEs Geomelra cinctaria, Wicn. Verz. ; Treitschkc ; Boisduval ; Hubner ; Stephens; Curtis, Brit. Ent., pi. 88 ; Wood, fig. 502. 



Geomelra pascuaria, Esper. 



Species 6 — Cleora pictaria S. — (Plate LX., Fig. 15.) — Measures about 1^ inch in the expanse of the fore 

 wings, which are ashy brown, with two waved strigse of dusky colour, between which is a dark spot ; the hind 

 wings paler, irrorated vyith dark scales along the anal margin ; all the wings with a row of small black dots at 

 the base of the cilice. Found in April and beginning of May near Dartford, Charing, and other parts of Kent ; 

 but very rare. 



f Synonyme. — Geometra pictaria, Thunberg; Stephens (Cleora p.) ; Curtis, Brit. Ent. pi. 447 (Ephjra p.); Wood, fig. 503. 



ALOIS, Curtis. BORMIA, p. Treitschke, Boisduval. 

 This genus has the body long and slender ; the wings large, and varied with gray or brown colours ; tlie 

 fore ones entire, and the hind ones sub-dentated : the palpi short, and the antenna of the males not feathered 

 quite to the tip j the hind tibiae dilated, and furnished with a tuft of silken hairs. The caterpillars are generally 

 smooth and cylindrical, with the fourth segment swollen, and the head often concealed within the following 

 segment. The perfect insects are sestival in the time of their appearance. 



Species 1. — Alcis repandaria •'. — (Plate LX., Figs. 16, 18, 19, 20.) — This species measures from li to 2 

 inches in expanse. All the wings are clouded with gray, brown and ashy, an incurved ill-defined striga near the 

 base of the wing, a large dark patch at the extremity of the discoidal cell, beyond which is a dark striga deeply 

 bidentate, followed by a submarginal, pale, denticulated striga, edged vyithin with brown, extending also across 

 the hind wings near the margin ; they have also a slender striga across the middle. This is a very variable 

 species, the Geom. destrigaria being much paler but more thickly atomose, and destitute of the middle striga. 



Geometra conversaria — (Hiibner ; Haworth ; Donovan, pi. 514 ; Stephens ; Wood, fig. 507 ; and our 

 fig. 20) — is given as another variety by Boisduval ; this has the fore wings ashy-gray, with a broad, dark -brown, 

 or blackish bar across the middle of all the wings, externally biangulate on the outside in the fore wings. 



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