/ 2 NucxuiDiE. 



defined by red-brown, extending to median nervnre ; orbicular and 

 reniform defined by red-brown, tbe former indistinct, round, with 

 brown point in centre, the latter with some brown suffusion on 

 inner part : medial line indistinct, oblique from costa to reniform, 

 inwardly oblique below tbe cell and bent outwards to inner margin ; 

 postmedial line double, the inner line indistinct, bent outwards 

 below costa, excurved to vein 5, then oblique ; subterminal lino 

 waved, angled outwards at vein 7 and inwards a,t discal fold to 

 postmedial line, excurved at middle; the veins of terminal area 

 slightly tinged with brown; a fine red-brown terminal line; cilia 

 brown mixed with grej ish. Hind wing pale yellow with indistinct 

 diffused brownish subterminal line and slight terminal line ; the 

 underside yellowish white, the costal area slightly irrorated with 

 red-brown, an indistinct curved postmedial line. 



Hab. U.S.A., California, Los Angeles (Coquittei), in U.S. Nat. 

 Mus. Krj). 44 millim. 



*4379. Papaipema astuta. (Plate CXXXVIII. fig. 20.) 



Papaipema astuta, Bird, Can. Ent. xsxix. p. 272 (1907). 



2 . Head and thorax yellow mixed with brown, the prothoracic 

 crest dark brown and grey at tip, the thorax edged with black- 

 brown at sides and behind ; abdomen pale yellowish tinged with 

 brown. Fore wing yellow irrorated with red, the postmedial and 

 terminal areas purple-brown, the former deeper in colour, leaving 

 a yellowish apical patch ; subbasal line double, red, sinuous, from 

 costa to submedian fold, with a minute yellow point beyond it in cell ; 

 antemedial area with a purplish-brown band ; the antemedial line 

 indistinct, double, red, sinuous ; claviform represented by two 

 superposed white spots defined by rufous ; orbicular a small round 

 white spot defined by rufous ; reniform a narrow yellow lunule 

 surrounded by small spots, those at lower extremity whitish 

 and all defined by rufous ; medial line rufous, oblique and sinuous 

 from costa to median nervure, then inwardly oblique ; postmedial 

 line double, the inner line rufous, the outer blackish, strongly 

 bent outwards below costa, erect to vein 6, then obliquely 

 incurved ; subterminal line indistinct, brown, angled outwards at 

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

 purplish fuscous. Hind wing ochreous white tinged with brown, 

 the veins slightly streaked with brown ; a fine brown terminal 

 line ; the underside with slight discoidal lunule and indistinct 

 postmedial line. 



Hab. U.S.A., I\ew York, Rye, type t $ in Coll. Bird. Exp. 36 

 millim. 



Larva. Yellowish, lines very faint, obsolete on the 1st four 

 abdominal somites which are dark ; tubercles small, black ; thoracic 

 shield black at sides. Food-plant, CollinSonia canadensis. 



