GEOMETRA TRANSVERSATA.
Plate [VIII]. fig. 2.
Order: Lepidoptera. Section: Nocturna. Family: Geometridæ, Stephens.
Genus. Geometra, Linn. Stephens. Ennomos, Treitschke, Duponchel.
Geometra Transversata. Alis angulatis fusco-fulvescentibus undique strigis minutis transversis fasciâque tenui communi obscurâ notatis. (Expans. Alar. 2 unc.)
Syn. Phalæna (Geometra) transversata, Drury, Append. v. 2.
Habitat: New York.
Upper Side. The antennæ are filiform, half an inch in length. The head, thorax, abdomen, and wings, of a brown orange. All the wings are angulated and besprinkled with small short transverse streaks parallel to each other. A narrow brown line, beginning at the external angle of the anterior wings, and running in a transverse direction, crosses them and the posterior wings near the middle, meeting above the extremity of the abdomen.
Under Side. Exactly like the upper in every circumstance, except that the brown line is not to be seen.