TAPAIPEMA. 



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part broken up into spots by tlie streaks on veins and double dis- 

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

 margin ; postmedial line strong, red-brown, angled outwards below 

 costa, then very oblique, straight ; an indistinct waved subter- 

 minal line ; a fine red-brown terminal line; cilia purplish mixed 

 with red-brown. Hind wing ochreous white, the veins and terminal 

 area slightly irrorated with red-brown ; a fine red-brown terminal 

 line ; the underside with the costal area irrorated with red-brown, 

 a slight discoidal point and indistinct curved postmedial line. 



llab. Canada, Manitoba, Aweme (Fletcher); U.S.A., Maine, 

 Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania, 1 $ type, Illinois. Exp. 

 34 millini. 



4390. Papaipema duovata. (Plate CXXXVIII. fig. 29.) 



Hi/drcecia duovata, Bird, Can. Ent. xxxiv. p. 115 (1902); Dvar, Cat. Lep. 

 N. Am. p. 176. 



Head and thorax ochreous mixed with purplish brown ; abdomen 

 red-brown mixed with greyish ochreous. Fore wing yellow, thickly 

 irrorated with dark brown aud black to postmedial line, the 

 terminal area suffused with purplish and irrorated with black ; 

 subbasal lino red-brown denned on each side by yellow, waved, 

 from costa to submeclian fold, with a dark patch beyond it from 

 below costa to vein 1 ; antemedial line slight, excurved from costa 

 to submedian fold, incurved at vein 1 and bent outwards above 

 inner margin, traversing the inner side of the claviform, which 

 is white tinged with yellow on inner side and bisected by a dark 

 streak in submedian fold; orbicular white defined by brown and 

 with brown point in centre, round ; rcniform with ochreous line 

 defined by brown in centre surrounded by small white spots defined 

 by brown, the spot at middle of outer side tinged with ochreous ; a 

 diffused dark medial shade, oblique from costa to lower angle of 

 cell, then inwardly oblique ; postmedial line double filled in with 

 yellowish, bent outwards below costa, then minutely waved, 

 excurved to vein 4, then oblique ; a yellowish patch at apex with 

 the dentate brown subterminal line arising from it, somewhat 

 excurved at middle and defined by yellowish on outer side ; a ter- 

 minal series of slight dark lunules ; cilia dark brown mixed with 

 greyish and with slight brown line through them. Hind wing 

 yellowish irrorated with brown ; traces of a fine postmedial line and 

 diffused subterminal band ; a fine brown terminal line ; the underside 

 ochreous white irrorated with brown, a dark discoidal point, curved 

 postmedial line, traces of subterminal band and fine terminal line. 



Hab. U.S.A., New York, Eye (II. Bird), 2 tf , 1 $ cotype 

 Exp. 36-46 millim. 



Larva. Bird, Can. Ent. xxxii. p. 276 (rutila). 



Head reddish brown, the mouth blackish. Body translucent 

 purplish with broad whitish dorsal and lateral lines ; shields pale 

 brown, not contrasting ; tubercles very small, inconspicuous. Food- 

 plant, Solidago sempervirens. — H. G. D. 



