rATAIPEMA. ID 



angle of cell to inner margin ; postmedial line double, the outer 

 line dark, bent outwards below costa, erect to vein 6, then oblique, 

 some pale points beyond it on costa; an apical yellow patch, the 

 subterminal line arising from it and represented by a series of slight 

 yellow marks defined by brown marks on inner side, somewhat 

 excurved at middle ; a terminal series of dark striae ; cilia dark 

 brown mixed with grey. Hind wing greyish suffused with brown ; 

 a fine brown terminal line : cilia brown at base, white at tips ; the 

 underside pale, tinged with purplish and irrorated with brown, a 

 brown discoidal spot. 



Hah. Canada, Alberta, Red Deer It. ( Wolley-Dod), 1 S , 1 $ ; 

 U.S.A., Massachusetts, 1 <$ type, New York, Rye (Bird), 1 6, 

 1 $ . Ex r . 30-40 millim. 



Larva. Bird, Can. Ent. xxxii. p. 279. 



Flesh-colour, thoracic somites white ; tubercles black ; head 

 reddish ; thoracic shield yellowish ; anal plate large and dark. 

 Food-plant, Aster umbellatus. 



43S3. Papaipema verona. (Plate CXXXVIII. fig. 23.) 



Hydrcecia verona, Smith, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xxvi. p. 32 (1899); Dyar, 

 Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 176. 



c? . Head and thorax yellow, tinged with rufous and mixed with 

 purple-brown and grey ; palpi and sides of Irons purple-brown 

 mixed with grey ; the edges of patagia and metathoracic crest dark 

 purple-brown ; pectus and legs grey mixed with purple-brown ; 

 abdomen ochreous, suffused with purple-brown. Fore wing yellow 

 irrorated with rufous, the postmedial and terminal areas suffused 

 with purple-brown, except at apex and tornus ; subbasal line 

 represented by a slight rufous striga from costa and a curved mark 

 below the cell ; antemedial line indistinctly double, excurved to 

 vein ], then strongly excurved above inner margin; claviform 

 represented by two spots defined by dark brown, the upper spot 

 yellow, the lower white ; orbicular small, round, yellowish white 

 defined by dark brown and with brown point in centre ; reniform 

 yellow defined by dark brown and with three whitish spots on 

 edges of lower part, constricted at middle; medial line red-brown, 

 excurved and slightly sinuous ; postmedial line double at costa and 

 below vein 3, the inner line red-brown, the outer rather diffused, 

 blackish, bent outwards below costa, erect to vein 3, then oblique 

 and slightly excurved below vein 2; subterminal line yellowish, 

 defined on inner side by small red-brown lunules, angled outwards 

 at vein 7, excurved and minutely dentate at middle ; a fine dark- 

 brown terminal line ; cilia yellow at base, brown at tips. Hind 

 wing ochreous white irrorated with red-brown ; a slight discoidal 

 bar, indistinct postmedial line, and diffused subterminal band; a fine 

 dark brown terminal line ; cilia yellowish white. 



Hah. Canada, Manitoba, Aweme (Criddle), 1 6, Winnipeg ; 

 U.S.A., Pennsylvania. Exp. 40 millim. 



Lama. Food-plant, Eupatorium. 



