78 NOCTTJTD.Ti. 



4388. Papaipema pterisii. (Plate CXXXVITI. fig. 27.) 



Papaipema pterisii, Bird, Can. Ent. xxxix. p. 310 (1907). 

 Gortyna trior.thia, Dyar, Can. Eut. xl. p. 79 (1908). 



Head and thorax yellow mixed with bright rufous; tegulae with 

 slight yellow tips ; abdomen pale oehreous yellow, the crests 

 brownish. Fore wing yellow suffused with bright rufous, the 

 outer part of medial area rather yellower, the postmedial area 

 purplish brown except at inner margin ; subbasal line double, red 

 filled in with yellow, angled inwards in cell where there is a minute 

 elongate yellow spot beyond it and ending at vein 1 ; antemedial 

 line indistinct, double, red filled in with yellow, sinuous, bent out- 

 wards above inner margin ; claviform and orbicular obliquely placed 

 bar-shaped white spots defined by black ; reniform with yellow line 

 in middle defined by red with white bar on its inner side con- 

 stricted at middle and defined by black on inner side and four 

 yellow spots on its outer edge ; a brown medial line sinuous and 

 rather diffused from costa to median nervure, then oblique ; post- 

 medial line dark brown, strongly bent outwards below costa, then 

 oblique and slightly incurved below vein 3, some white points 

 beyond it on costa ; the veins of terminal area streaked with brown ; 

 subterminal line only defined by the contrast between the post- 

 medial and terminal areas, angled outwards at veins 7, 4, 3 and 

 incurved at discal and submedian folds ; a dark brown terminal 

 line ; cilia purple-brown. Hind wing pale yellow with diffused 

 brownish subterminal band and fine brown terminal line except 

 towards tornus ; the underside with the costal area irrorated with 

 brown. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing with the upper part of claviform, orbicular, and 

 points round reuiform yellow. 



Hah. Canada, Ottawa (Younr/), 1 J , 1 5 ; U.S.A., Massachusetts, 

 Newtonville, 2 6 , 1 2 , New York (Hac/m), 1 $ , Rye (Bird), 1 $ 

 cotvpe. Exp. 34-38 milliin. 



4389. Papaipema rigida. (Plate CXXXVIII. fig. 28.) 



Gortyna rigida, Grote, Can. Ent. ix. p. 87 (1877) ; id. Papilio, ii. pi. i. 

 ff. 3, 3a ; id. Ulustr. Essay, p. 58, pi. ii. f. 24 ; Smith, Cat. Nocfc. N. Am. 

 p. 176. 



3 . Head and thorax pale yellow, mixed with some purplish 

 rufous ; a purplish band behind the tegulae ; abdomen oehreous 

 white. Fore wing pale yellow irrorated with rufous, some purplish 

 suffusion before antemedial line on costal area and on terminal area 

 except at apex, the veins slightly streaked with rufous ; subbasal 

 line slight, rufous, curved, from costa to submedian fold ; ante- 

 medial line rufous, oblique, from costa to median nervure where it 

 is acutely angled, then inwardly oblique and strongly bent outwards 

 above inner margin ; claviform defined by rufous, figure-of-8-shaped, 

 not touching antemedial line ; orbicular and reniform defined by 

 rufous, the former small, rather elliptical, the latter with its outer 



