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costa to lower angle of cell, then inwardly oblique ; postmedial line 

 doiible, rufous, bent outwards below costa, obliquely excurved to 

 vein 4, then very oblique, some whitish points beyond it on costa ; 

 faint traces of a rufous subterminal line excurved below vein 7 and 

 at middle ; a red-brown terminal line. Hind wing pale yellow 

 tinged with rufous, the veins brownish ; a hue brown terminal 

 line ; the underside yellowish white faintly tinged with rufous, a 

 slight rufous postmedial line excurved to vein 4, then oblique. 



Hub. U.S.A., Eastern, Middle, and Central States, New Harap 

 shire, New York, 1 J , 1 § , Rye (Bird), 1 $ , Rhode I. Exp. 

 S 38, 2 42 millim. 



Larva. Head shining pale brown with a blackish shade over the 

 ocelli. Body sordid whitish without markings; cervical shield and 

 anal plate pale brown with black edges ; tubercles small, black, 

 those around the spiracles larger. Food-plant, Onoclea sensibilis, 

 Linn.— H. G. D. 



*4367. Papaipema speciosissima. (Plate CXXXVIII. fig. 8.) 



Gortyna speciosissima, Grote & Rob. Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. i. p. 342, pi. vii. 

 f. '52 (1868) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 177- 



3 • Head and thorax bright rufous ; abdomen ochreous tinged 

 with rufous, the ventral surface rufous. Fore wing yellow, almost 

 wholly suffused with bright rufous, the veins streaked with rufous ; 

 subbasal line represented by two red stria? from costa ; antemedial 

 line double, the outer line less distinct, angled outwards below costa, 

 then sinuous, excurved above inner margin ; claviform two small 

 white spots defined by brown ; orbicular a small white bar defined 

 by brown ; reniform a very narrow and elongate oblique white 

 lunule defined by brown ; medial line red, oblique from costa to 

 median nervure, then inwardly oblique ; postmedial line double, the 

 inner line fine, slightly bent outwards below costa, oblique and 

 minutely waved to vein 5, then inwardly oblique; the terminal 

 area rather redder ; subterminal line indistinct, faintly defined by 

 yellowish on outer side, somewhat dentate, angled outwards at 

 vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a fine rufous terminal line ; cilia 

 bright rufous. Hind wing yellowish suffused with rufous ; traces 

 of a sinuous postmedial line ; a fino rufous terminal line ; the 

 underside with distinct curved postmedial line. 



II ah. U.S.A., Massachusetts, New York, Rhode I., New Jersey in 

 Coll. E. Shoemaker. Exp. 52 millim. 



*436S. Papaipema stenoscelis. (Plate CXXXVIII. fig. 9.) 



Hyclracw stenoscelis, Dyar, J. N.Y. Ent. Soc. xv. p. 52 (1907). 



2 . Head and thorax ochreous tinged with rufous and mixed 

 with purplish ; abdomen ochreous white tinged with purplish. 

 Fore wing ochreous tinged with rufous and suffused with purplish 

 except on inner half of medial area and before postmedial line ; 

 antemedial line indistinct, double, nearly straight; stigmata pure 



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