/ 4 NOCTUIDiE. 



yellow almost wholly suffused and irrorated with rufous, the area 

 before postmedial line yellower and the postmedial area deeper 

 rufous; a white point at base; subbasal line rufous defined by 

 yellow on outer side and with some yellow before it, angled out- 

 wards below costa and ending at vein 1, a yellow point beyond it 

 in cell ; antemedial line indistinct, red-brown, excurved in cell and 

 bent outwards above inner margin ; claviform represented by two 

 round pure white spots defined by dark brown, the upper smaller ; 

 orbicular pure white defined by dark brown, rather small, elliptical ; 

 reniform with yellow line in centre defined by rufous and surrounded 

 by small white spots defined by brown except at middle of inner 

 side ; an oblique rufous line from lower angle of cell to inner 

 margin ; postmedial line double, the inner line rufous, the outer 

 dark brown strongly bent outwards below costa, then very minutely 

 sinuous, erect to vein 6, then oblique, some slight white points 

 beyond it on costa ; subterminal line represented by slight yellow marks 

 on outer edge of the dark rufous area, dentate at veins 7, 6, 4, 3, 2 ; 

 a terminal series of small red-brown lunules ; cilia dark brown. 

 Hind wing yellowish tinged with brown, the costal area whitish ; 

 a faint diffused dark subterminal band ; a slight brown terminal line 

 from apex to vein 2 ; cilia yellowish with slight brown line through 

 them from apex to vein 2, then whitish ; the underside yellowish 

 white, the costal half and terminal area irrorated with rufous, a 

 small discoidal spot, curved postmedial line, and traces of diffused 

 subterminal band. 



2 . Head, thorax, and fore wing yellow and less rufous. 



Ab. 1. § . Fore wing more uniform rufous, and without the 

 white spots on the stigmata ; in Coll. Bird. 



Hob. U.S.A., Maine, Kittery Point, 1 3 , 2 $ type, Massachusetts, 

 New York (Doubleday), 1 <S , 1 $ . Exp. 40-42 millim. 



Larva. Bird, Can. Ent. xsxii. p. 282. 



Pale and semitrauslucent ; dorsal line indistinct ; tubercles black. 

 Food-plant, Heracltum lanatum. 



4382. Papaipema impecuniosa. (Plate CXXXVIIL fig. 22.) 



Gortyna impecuniosa, Grote, Bull. U.S. Geol. Geog. Surv. Terr. vi. p. 2G7 

 (1881) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 176. 



Head and thorax purplish rufous mixed with white ; abdomen 

 pale rufous, the crests and anal tuft with white mixed. Fore wing 

 yellow suffused in parts with purplish and irrorated w r ith fiery red 

 to postmedial line, the terminal area purplish rufous ; subbasal line 

 slight, red, waved, from costa to submedian fold, some purplish 

 suffusion beyond it ; antemedial line slight, red, waved, bent out- 

 wards below submedian fold ; claviform yellow defined by brown, 

 constricted at middle ; orbicular and reniform yellow defined by 

 brown, the former small, round, the latter with some red in centre, 

 its outer part broken up by streaks, an oblique dark line from lower 



