66 NOCXUID.E. 



outer edge, angled outwards at vein 7, excurved and waved at 

 middle, incurved at discal and submedian folds ; a line brown 

 terminal line; cilia purplish at base, dark brown at tips. Hind 

 wing pale yellow, the veins and terminal area tinged with purplish; 

 an indistinct sinuous postmedial line and traces of a ditfused sub- 

 terminal band ; the underside with the costal area irrorated with 

 purplish red, a discoidal point, curved postmedial line and indistinct 

 diffused subterminal band. 



Hub. U.S.A., New York, Rye (IT. Bird), 1 S cotype. Exp. 

 38 millim. 



Larva. Semitranslucent ; 1st four abdominal segments dark, the 

 outer segments with pale dorsal, subdorsal, and lateral lines, the 

 dorsal line showing slightly on the dark somites ; head yellow with 

 dark lateral line. Food-plant, Baptisia tinetorina. 



*4372. Papaipema furcata. (Plate CXXXVIII. fig. 13.) 



Hydrwcia furcata, Smith, Trans. Am. Ent. fc'oc. xxvi. p. 46 (1899); Dyar, 

 Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 177. 



S . Head and thorax pale yellow mixed with rufous ; antennas 

 with the basal joint white ; pectus and legs whitish tinged with 

 rufous ; abdomen ochreous white. Fore wing pale yellow more or 

 less suffused with rufous, the veins slightly streaked with red-brown ; 

 traces of a waved red-brown subbasal line from costa to submedian 

 fold ; antemedial line very indistinct, waved, red-brown, with pure 

 white spots before it in cell and above vein 1 ; claviform represented 

 by two round pure white spots defined by red-brown, the upper 

 rather smaller ; orbicular pure white defined by red-brown, round ; 

 reniform with pale yellow lunule at centre and spot on outer edge, 

 defined by three small white spots above and four below all defined 

 by red-brown ; an oblique diffused rufous shade from lower arigle 

 of cell to inner margin ; postmedial line double, red -brown, bent 

 outwards below costa, then crenulate, excurved to vein 4, then 

 oblique ; subterminal line red-brown, dentate, excurved below vein 7 

 and at middle, a yellow patch beyond it at apex ; a fine red-brown 

 terminal line. Hind wing very pale yellow ; the underside whiter, 

 the costa and veins slightly tinged with rufous, traces of a curved 

 postmedial line. 



Hob. U.S.A., New Hampshire, Manchester, New York, Long I., 

 New Jersey, Carlstadt, Washington, D.C. {Hay), in U.S. Nat. Mus., 

 Illinois, Urbana. Exp. 44 millim. 



4373. Papaipema circumlucens. (Plate CXXXVIII. fig. 14.) 



Hydrcecia eirciimlucens, Smith, Traus. Am. Ent. Soc. xxvi. p. 43 (1S99); 

 Dyar, Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 176. 



J 1 . Head and thorax purplish rufous mixed with some greyish, 

 the mesothorax with some orange fulvous ; antennae with the 1st 

 joint white ; pectus and legs rufous, the tarsi slightly ringed with 

 white ; abdomen rufous tinged with purplish brown, the crests 



