2JS the CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



one of the few wasteland spots that are left in Rye — and chance, by the 

 way, has not thus far furnished it from other quarters — a continued local 

 search has been made each year, and it is thoroughly known just what 

 particular Speedwell root will give up a larva each year. So scarce are 

 they, however, that four or tive specimens per season is the best addition 

 we can make to our series, and it now follows we must have a new name 

 for the old friend. 



Papaipema sciaia, n. sp. — Ground colour very deep umber-brown, 

 with a tinge of purple lake in fresh material. Head and thoracic vestiture 

 of one deep purple-brown hue ; the abdomen is umber-brown, without the 

 purple inflection. Antennae alike in both sexes, ciliate, the upper and 

 outer sides dark umber, the inner side distinctly white ; a small white 

 scale at the base. The collar has the usual cream-white edging above ; 

 the anterior thoracic tuft erect and spreading at the top ; the posterior 

 one of the usual lesser prominence, its hair-like scales sloping backward 

 at forty-five degrees ; dorsal crests of abdomen normal. Primaries have 

 the costal margin very straight, the markings in some instances are 

 obscure, the chief ornamentatiDn being the cream-white stigmata. Basal 

 spots and area not defined, all within the t. a. line of the purplish shading 

 as the thorax ; the median field deep umber-brown, becoming brighter at 

 the inner margin, where an illumination of red-brown scales often occurs. 

 The median shade line faint, blackish. The t. p. line is geminate, sweeps 

 outward from its costal inception to the lower end of reniform, continuing 

 thence nearly straight to the inner margin. S. t. line appears as an 

 irregular, darker illumination on the glistening purple ground of the 

 terminal and subterminal spaces. Reniform of the normal broken appear- 

 ance, cream-white. Orbicular and claviform same colour, the latter 

 double, a commingling of two, superimposed, ovate spots ; the axis of this 

 marking forming a more acute angle with the costa than is the case in 

 most species. The usual patch of lighter ground colour at the apex is 

 wanting in the series. Secondaries of a uniform smoky-umber hue, the 

 veins showing darkly. There is some variation in the depth of this 

 colouring. Beneath the wings are heavily powdered with dark scales, the 

 fringes and mesial shade line darkly defined. The male structures, while 

 typical, differ from duplicatus and nitela in having the lower point of the 

 triangular tip of the harpes less drawn out and tooth-like. The clasper is 

 the same stout, curved claw, with its outer edge minutely roughened like 

 saw-teeth. 



Expanse, 1.20 to 1.45 inches ; 30 to 36 mm. 



