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DESCRIPTIONS OF THREE NEW SPECIES OF GEOMETRIDÆ

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

J. Elwyn Bates
J. Elwyn Bates
Affiliation:
So. Abington, Mass.
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Rheumaptera brunneomaculata, sp. nov.

Abdomen and ground color of wings white. Head, thorax and antennæ cinereous. Inner third of fore wings containing three irregular ashcolored lines more heavily shaded towards the thorax. Mesial band crossed by two narrow, irregular and somewhat interrupted cinereous lines, between which on the inner margin of the wing is located a very distinct sub-triangular spot of deep brown color. Another larger, nearly quadrangular, very distinct brown patch, widest on costa, extends from costal margin to near the middle of the wing, in the lower part of which is located the oblong very dark brown discai dot.

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The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 18 , Issue 4 , April 1886 , pp. 74 - 76
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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1886

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* Since writing the above, I have found a female example of S. sex-punctata that I had overlooked. The only difference from the one described is that the two small parallel brown spots in the centre of the extra-discal shading are in this example united into one spot.