PAPAIPEMA. / :> 



4380. Papaipema arctivorens, n. sp. (Plate CXXXVIII. fig. 21.) 



Head and thorax purple mixed with yellow ; antennae with the 

 basal joint white ; tegulee slightly edged with yellow behind ; 

 abdomen yellow tinged with rufous, the crests dark. Pore wing- 

 yellow irrorated with bright rufous, the postmedial area purplish, 

 the terminal area suffused with red-brown except at apex, the veins 

 slightly streaked with brown, subbasal line rufous defined on outer 

 side by slight yellow marks and with yellow point beyond it in cell, 

 sinuous, from oosta to submedian fold ; antemedial line indistinct, 

 inwardly oblique and sinuous to vein 1, then bent outwards above 

 inner margin ; claviform represented by two obliquely placed white 

 spots defined by brown, the upper small ; orbicular small, elliptical, 

 white defined by brown ; reniform with sinuous oblique yellow line 

 in centre defined by rufous, with curved white mark on inner edge 

 above, white point below and two white points beyond lower 

 extremity ; a slight sinuous rufous medial line, oblique to median 

 nervurc, then inwardly oblique ; postmedial line double, the inner 

 line indistinct and rufous except at costa where it is filled in with 

 yellow, strongly bent outwards below costa, then minutely waved, 

 erect to vein 6, then oblique, some whitish points beyond it on 

 costa ; a yellowish minutely waved subterminal line, incurved 

 below costa and defining the yellowish apical patch, excurved at 

 middle ; cilia greyish brown. Hind wing ochreous white tinged 

 with rufous, the veins brownish ; a faint diffused subterminal 

 brown band ; the underside yellowish white, the costal and terminal 

 areas suffused and irrorated with rufous ; a slight discoidal line 

 and curved postmedial line. 



Hab. Canada, Montreal (Bird). 1 J . Exp. 36-44 millim. Six 

 males and five females in Coll. Bird examined. 



Larva. Pood-plants : Burdock and Thistle. 



4381. Papaipema harrisi. 



GorCyna karrisii, Grote, Bull. U.S. Geol. Geog. SurT. Terr. vi. pp. 268, 276 



(1881); Smith, Cat, Koct. N. Am. p. 177. 



$ . Head and thorax bright rufous mixed with red-brown ; 



Fig. 21. — Papaipema harrisi, $ . \. 



antennae with the basal joint pure white ; fore tarsi ringed with 

 white ; abdomen yellowish irrorated with dark brown. Pore wing 



