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space dark brownish defined by two darker undulating lines. Terminal 
space greyish tinged with brown and with a terminal lunulated black line. 
Entire wing mottled with black. Posterior wings resembling anterior. 
Basal half dark brownish defined by a black irregular median line, show¬ 
ing a black discal spot with a white streak inside. Terminal half of the 
wing greyish tinged with brown and with a darker sub-terminal shade 
line. Terminal margin with a black lunulated line. Entire wing 
mottled with black. Thorax whitish anteriorly, grey posteriorly. 
Collar black. Head and abdomen greyish, latter crested. Undersur¬ 
face of wings showing the markings of the upper without the brownish 
tinge in the terminal spaces. A male. Exp. If inch. Middle States. 
Kindness of Mr. J. Akhurst. 
Manifestly distinct from A. (.^) quernaria A & S., and A. coyitataria 
(fn., with specimens of which latter species, I have compai-ed it. 
PHYTOMETRINA, H. S. 
Gen. EUPITHECIA Curtis. 
E. miserulata n. sp. (See plate 2 , fig. 4, 90 
Clear greyish, silky. Anterior wings with a black interrupted ter¬ 
minal line and with a greyish fringe interrupted with black. Discal 
spot linear, black. Terminal space shaded with dark grey. From the 
costa several ill defined darker shade lines traverse the wing to the in¬ 
ternal margin, the best defined of which is wavy running outside of the 
discal mark. Posterior wings clear greyish showing a discal spot, with 
a black interrupted terminal line and greyish fringe as on anterior 
wings. From the internal margin, between the anal angle and the base, 
two wavy lines cross the wing; near the base are others indistinct, in¬ 
terrupted. Under side clear greyish showing the discal spots and two 
wavy dark grey lines on both wings. Head, palpi, thorax and abdomen 
greyish. Exp. f to i inches. (Coll. Ent. Soc. Philadelphia.) 
Northern Virginia. 
This species which is a true Eupithecui, differs specifically from the 
description of the Californian E. suhaj)ir(U(i Grii., and is the only spe¬ 
cies belonging to this genus I am acquainted with from the Atlantic 
Slope. 
