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NOCTUIDiE. 



4363. Emboloecia sauzalitsB. 



Ochria muzalita, Qrote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. ii. p. 216 (1875) ; Smith, 

 Cat. No'ct. N. Am. p. 179. 



$ . Head and thorax ochreous mixed with rufous and red-brown, 

 the scales slightly tipped with grey ; abdomen ochreous irrorated 

 with red-brown. Fore wing yellow irrorated with rufous, the 

 antemedial area, cell and postmedial' area suffused with purple- 

 brown, the veins streaked with brown; antemedial line very 



Fig. 20. — Emboloecia sauzalitm, $. \. 



indistinct, sinuous and strongly excurved above inner margin ; 

 claviform white defined by dark brown, bifid and divided by a 

 yellow streak ; orbicular white defined by dark brown and with 

 brown point in middle, small, round ; reniform yellow with two 

 small white spots above and three below defined by rufous ; a dif- 

 fused rufous medial line from cell to inner margin ; postmedial line 

 double, the inner line indistinct, the outer strong, purplish fuscous, 

 strongly bent outwards below costa, oblique and slightly incurved 

 below vein 5 ; subterminal line angled outwards at veins 7, 6, 4, 3, 2 ; 

 a yellow patch at apex ; a fine brown terminal line ; cilia red- 

 brown mixed with greyish and with fine pale line at base. Hind 

 wing ochreous yellow irrorated with brown, the veins brown ; 

 traces of a curved postmedial Hue ; a diffused brown subterminal 

 band except towards costa ; a fine brown terminal line ; the under- 

 side ochreous yellow irrorated with red-brown, traces of a slight 

 discoidal lunule and sinuous postmedial line. 



Bab. U.S.A., California, Sauzalita (Behrens), 1 § type. Exp. 

 30 millim. 



Genus PAPAIPEMA. 



Type. 



Papaipcma, Smith, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xxvi. p. 12 (1899) ccrina. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching about to 

 middle of Irons and moderately scaled in front, the 3rd short; frons smooth ; 

 eve* laro-e, round ; antenna; of male ciliated ; thorax clothed with hair and 

 scales mixed, tegulre produced to a slight dorsal ridge, the prothorax with long 

 flattened oblique crest, the metathorax with divided crest ; tibiae fringed with 

 lon<* liair ; abdomen with dorsal crests on basal segments. Fore wmg with 

 the°apex produced and acute, the termen evenly curved and hardly crenulate-; 

 veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anasto- 



