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costal nervure, incurved in submedian interspace and strongly 

 excurved above inner margin, an oblique white striga on it below 

 the cell; claviform represented by two white spots defined by rufous, 

 the lower round, the upper small and oblique; orbicular white 

 defined by rufous and with rufous point on it near outer edge, 

 rather triangular ; reniform large, oblique, constricted at middle 

 and expanding below, with yellow line in centre defined by rufous 

 surrounded with white spots defined by rufous ; medial line red- 

 brown, oblique from costa to lower angle of cell, then inwardly 

 oblique ; posttnedial line double, bent outwards bolow costa, then 

 minutely waved, excurved to vein 4, then oblique, some whitish 

 points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line brown, dentate, excurved 

 below vein 7 and at middle ; an apical yellow patch ; a fine brown 

 terminal line. Hind wing ochreous white tinged with purplish 

 red ; traces of a discoidal lunule, sinuous postmedial line and 

 diffused subterminal band ; a fine brown terminal line ; the under- 

 side whitish tinged with purplish red, an indistinct curved post- 

 medial line. 



Hub. U.S.A., Northern, Eastern, and Middle States, 1 tf , New 

 York, Eye (Bird), 1 <J , 1 $ , Illinois. Exp. 46-50 millim. 



Larva. Head reddish brown, the mouth blackish. Body sordid 

 ■whitish, translucent ; cervical shield and anal plate brown ; tubercles 

 large, brown, the two on joint 1 the same size as the four dorsal 

 ones on joint 12. Food-plant, Cicuta maculata. — H. G. I)„ 



4371. Papaipema baptisiae. (Plate CXXXVIII. fig. 12.) 



Hydroecia baptisia, Bird, Can. Ent. xxxiv. p. 109 (1902); Dyar, Cat. Lep. 

 N.Am. p. 176. 



tf . Head and thorax deep purple, the scales slightly tipped with 

 grey, the tips of tegulae and a patch behind prothoracic crest and 

 on upper edge of patagia orange ; abdomen ochreous slightly 

 suffused with purple, more strongly on ventral surface. Fore 

 wing orange-yellow, the antemedial, postmedial, and the terminal 

 area except at apex deep purple-red, the medial area mostly suffused 

 aud irrorated with chocolate-red, the apical area irrorated with 

 chocolate-red ; subbasal line deep red with yellow before and beyond 

 it, waved, from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line indistinct, 

 double filled in with some yellow, waved, rather oblique; claviform 

 represented by two obliquely placed pure white spots, the lower 

 larger ; orbicular pure white defined by brown, round ; reniform 

 with yellow line in centre defined by red surrounded by pure white 

 spots separated by red streaks, its inner edge excised ; an indistinct 

 sinuous red line from lower angle of cell to inner margin ; post- 

 medial line double filled in with yellow towards costa and inner 

 margin, the inner line indistinct, the outer dark except towards 

 costa, bent outwards below costa, then very slightly waved, oblique 

 to vein 6 and incurved below vein 4, some pale points beyond it on 

 costa ; subterminal line dark brown with a few yellow scales on its 



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