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DESCRIPTION OF NEW GENERA AND SPECIES OF THE GEOMETRINA OF NORTH AMERICA

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

Geo. D. Hulst
Affiliation:
Brooklyn, N. Y.

Extract

Leptomeris nigrodiscalis, n. sp.

Expands 24 mm. Palpi and front black; vertex ochre-white; antennæ whitish below, blackish or smoky above; thorax and abdomen white, slightly ochre stained. Fore wings white, with four somewhat indistinct, broad, even, wavy, ochre lines, the first well out from base, the second just outside of discal spot, the third in outer space, the fourth marginal; hind wings with corresponding broad lines; discal points prominent, rather large, jet black; four fine marginal black points below apex on fore wings; beneath more diffuse, more fuscous, less ochreous, the lines less determinate; discal spots not so marked, black points as above on margins of fore wings, and some appearing below apex along margin on hind wings.

Type
Articles
Copyright
Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1898

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