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.
This species seems nearly allied to the moths, which English collectors
call the Thorns, and to which Stephens restricts the name of Geometra, but
which M. Duponchel terms Ennomos.