64 NOCTUIDJE. 



brownish ; a slight discoidal line and oblique waved postmedial line 

 excurved at median nervules ; a slight brown terminal line ; cilia 

 tinged with crimson ; the underside yellow with the costa and 

 terminal area to vein 4 tinged with rufous ; a faint oblique post- 

 medial line. 



Hub. Canada, Ontario, Ottawa {Young), 1 $ , 2 $ , London, 1 § 

 type. Exp. 34-38 millim. 



Larva. Bird, Can, Ent. xxxv. p. 91. 



Sienna-brown, dorsal and subdorsal lines pure white. Food- 

 plant, Sarracenia. 



4365. Papaipema cerina. (Plate CXXXVIII. fig. 6.) 



Gorti/na cerina, Grote, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phil. 1874, p. 200; id. Illustr. 

 Essay, p. 59, pi. ii. f. '2b ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 176. 



2 . Head and thorax bright yellow, the head, teguloe at base, 

 shoulders, a band behind tegulae, tips of patagia and metathoracic 

 crests at sides suffused with purplish rufous ; legs with rufous 

 mixed ; abdomen ochreous yellow. Fore wing bright yellow ; sub- 

 basal line rufous, double, waved, from costa to submedian fold, the 

 antemedial area purplish rufous except at costa ; antemedial line 

 rufous, double, waved, oblique ; claviform short and broad, purplish 

 rufous defined by rufous ; orbicular and reniform purplish rufous 

 defined by rufous, the former very small, elliptical, the latter strongly 

 constricted at middle : a rufous medial line incurved and dentate 

 below the cell ; postmedial line rufous, bent outwards below costa, 

 then dentate, incurved below vein 4 to lower extremity of reniform : 

 postmedial and terminal areas except at apex purplish rufous, the 

 subterminal line yellow, excurved below vein 7 and slightly at 

 middle ; a terminal series of slight brown striae ; cilia purplish 

 rufous slightly mixed with yellow. Hind wing pale ochreous 

 yellow slightly tinged with rufous except on costal area ; an indis- 

 tinct diffused subterminal brownish band ; the underside with the 

 costal area tinged with rufous, a slight discoidal lunule, oblique 

 postmedial line, and traces of subterminal band. 



Hah. U.S.A., Maine,. Kansas, 1 § type. Exp. 50 millim. 



4366. Papaipema inquaesita. (Plate CXXXVIII. fig. 7.) 



Gortyna inqum&ita, Grote, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. i. p. 344 (1868) ; Smith, 

 Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 176. 



Head and thorax bright rufous mixed with yellow ; abdomen 

 vellow faintly tinged with rufous, the crests brownish. Fore winfj 

 yellow suffused with bright rufous, the veins and submedian fold 

 streaked with brown ; subbasal line faint, double, rufous, waved, 

 from eosta to submedian fold ; antemedial line indistinctly double, 

 rufous, waved ; claviform defined by rufous, elliptical and bisected 

 by the streak in submedian fold ; orbicular small, elliptical, yellow 

 defined by rufous ; reniform narrow and faintly defined by rufous, 

 oblique ; medial line rufous, somewhat diffused, very oblique from 



