14 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Papaipema nelita linda, new variety. 



Typical in the greyish brown ground colour, with golden 

 brown irroraticns medialK-. the purplish basal and postmedial 

 areas; also in maculation; basal spotb vague, not white marked, 

 the orbicular and claviform are two rounded white spots, the reni- 

 form is a collection of dots around a central curved line, the outer- 

 most opposite the cell yellow, the rest usually white; ordinarily 

 the conventional pattern for the white markings except the reni- 

 form is proportionately a little short. Expanse 3(5 mm. 



A male type is with the author, a paratype with Mr Jones, 

 and a specimen was forwarded to the British Museum for com- 

 parison with the type of P limpida Gn. from which it is reported 

 to be distinct by Sir Geo. F. Hampson. This new variety is dedi- 

 cated to Mrs. F. M. Jones, whose efforts in l)ehalf of entomological 

 research warrant much more than this slight recognition. 



Papaipema cerina Grt. 



The apprehension of this larva is due to the efforts of Mr. 

 Chas. Rummel of Newark, N. J., who encounters it occasionally 

 in his locality. We were indebted to his liberality for early staged 

 lar\cTe the current season, as well as for the privilege of bringing 

 out this note. That this well-known eastern species had escaped 

 larval notice seems due in part to its close resemblance to P. 

 catapJiracta, that its seemingly preferred food-plant, Lilium super- 

 hum L., is very generally bored also by the latter, and while it 

 appears certain other plants than Lilium are involved, the similarity 

 to this prototype, whose individuality was considered unique, has 

 allowed it to escape notice. Thus in future generic groupings, 

 the species should be associated with catapJiracta and duovata, a 

 position not assigned it heretofore and which is of s^ome import 

 since on "first species" rule it became Smith's type of the genus. 



The larval habit doubtless follows the usual course, the over- 

 wintering egg hatching the last week of May. Larval stages IV 

 and V are identical with catapJiracta except that they are a fortnight 

 in advance of the latter. Characteristics are fully typical, tubercles 

 not large; colour livid purple-brown on which the white dorsal and 

 subdorsal lines are contrastingly drawn without break. 



