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GEOMETKID^. 
Eupithecia luciuda, Butl. (Plate CLXX. fig. 11.) 
Eupithecia lucinda, Butl. Ann. N. H. (5) iv. p. 442 (1879). 
Expanse | inch. 
Pale olive-green, slightly irrorated with black scales. Fore wing with numerous in- 
distinct waved olive lines ; the costa blackish ; subbasal, ante- and postmedial ill-defined 
curved black bands, the last angled below the costa and only extending to the third median 
nervule ; a blackish submarginal patch above third median nervule ; cilia blackish. Hind 
wing pale fuscous, some olive suff'usion towards outer margin ; an indistinct curved post- 
medial line and marginal line. 
Eupithecia rufifascia. (Plate CLXXI. fig. 15.) 
Expanse, <? ? | inch. 
Male and Female. Head, thorax, and abdomen green, speckled with black scales. Fore 
wing with the basal area green, except the costal portion, which is red-brown ; a broad medial 
red-brown band occupying half the wing, edged internally and externally by waved black 
lines, and traversed through the middle by a similar line ; outer area green, with a blackish 
suffusion; an indistinct waved black submarginal line; all these black lines are edged by a 
few white scales. Hind wing green, with five waved black transverse lines. Cilia reddish, 
with fuscous tips. 
Eupithecia emarginaria. (Plate CLXXI. fig. 14.) 
Expanse | inch. 
Male and Female. Pale reddish brown ; abdomen with a dark band on the third segment 
above. Fore wing with some red along the proximal half of the costa ; some very indistinct 
waved transverse lines, the most prominent being an angulated postmedial line inwardly 
edged by red. Hind wing with a deep scallop below the apex and slighter emargination 
towards the anal angle ; some very indistinct waved transverse lines, the postmedial being 
the most definable. 
LEIOCERA, g. n. 
Male. Antennae minutely ciliated, but not annulated. Palpi with the second and third 
joints longer and more slender than in Eupithecia. Hind tibijB with two pairs of spurs. 
Venation as in Eupithecia. 
Type L. axis. 
Leiocera ferrisparsata. (Plate CLXXI. fig. 8.) 
Expanse \^ inch. 
Female. Fore legs, palpi, head, collar, and bands on the first three segments of the 
abdomen ferruginous. Antennse brown ; abdomen and wings silky white, irrorated with 
dark-brown scales ; the wings crossed by about nine slender waved brown lines and a distinct 
