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DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW GENERA AND SPECIES OF THE GEOMETRINA OF NORTH AMERICA
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 31 May 2012
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Paleacrita longiciliata, n. sp.
Expands 26 mm. Palpi dark fuscuous; front very broad, dark fuscous, slightly tufted; antennae fuscous gray, subpectinate, the fascicles of hairs fine, silky, very long, some six to ten times diameter of stem; thorax dark fuscous gray; abdomen dark fuscous. Fore wings, costa strongly arched, apex quite pointed, inner angle rounded whole wing narrow and lanceolate; colour light fuscous, generally washed over with dark fuscous, with numerous black atoms, especially on the veins, making them linearly blackish; also apically and in small indistint shadings across the wing light gray, also light gray shading at ends of veins at margin; marginal points intervenular, blackish; fringe long; fuscous gray, and light gray; hind wings even fouscous, veins darker; fringe long, dark fuscous. Beneath even fuscous on all wings about colour of hind wings above, veins darker, the fore wings with a sprinkling of dark fuscous atoms.
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