80 xoctuid.t;. 



4391. Papaipema cataphracta. (Plate CXXXVIIT. fig. 30.) 



Gortyna cataphracta, G-rote, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. iii. p. 81, pi. ii. f. 3 



(1864) ; Smith, Oat. Noct. N. Am. p. 176. 



Head and thorax dark brown mixed with grey-white; antenna? 

 with the basal joint whitish ; tegulse slightly edged with white 

 behind; tarsi with slight pale rings; abdomen greyish ochreous 

 suffused with reddish brown. Fore wing golden yellow irrorated 

 with dark brown, the antemedial, postmedial, and the terminal area 

 except a patch at apex dark greyish brown, the veins with dark 

 streaks ; a yellow patch at base traversed by the faint waved sub- 

 basal line from costa to submedian fold and with yellow spot 

 beyond it in cell ; antemedial line double filled in with yellow, 

 inwardly oblique and sinuous from costa to vein 1. then bent 

 outwards above inner margin ; claviform represented by a double 

 yellow spot defined by brown and bisected by a slight brown streak 

 in submedian fold ; orbicular large, round, yellow defined by brown 

 and with a few brown scales in centre ; renif or m large, with sinuous 

 yellow line in centre defined by brown, surrounded by yellow 

 spots divided by streaks on the veins; a medial yellow shade 

 from costa to median nervure, then an oblique line to inner 

 margin ; postmedial line double filled in with yellow, bent out- 

 wards below costa and oblique below vein 6, with slight yellow 

 points beyond it on costa ; a faint minutely waved brown subter- 

 minal line, incurved before the yellow apical patch, then with slight 

 yellow marks on its outer edge ; a slight dark terminal line. Hind 

 wing greyish suffused with brown ; a diffused brown subtcrminal 

 band ; a fine brown terminal line : the underside whitish irrorated 

 with red-brown, a faint discoidal lunule and diffused subterminal 

 band. 



Hah. Canada {Norman) 1 $, Ottawa (Fletcher, Young), 4 d\ 

 Ontario, Orilla (Bush), 1 S 5 U.S.A., Massachusetts, New York, 1 6 , 

 Rye (Bird), 1 tf , 1 2 , Colorado. Exp. 32-40 millim. 



Larva. Head reddish brown with a black stripe from ocelli to 

 occiput. Body faintly purplish, translucent, with whitish dorsal 

 and broader lateral stripes ; cervical shield and anal plate pale brown 

 with black borders ; tubercles large, brown, two large contiguous 

 shields on joint 13. Food-plants : Wild Parsnip, &c. — H. G. D. 



*4392. Papaipema imperspicua. (Hate CXXXVIII. fig. 31.) 

 Pcrpaijicmii imperspicua, Bird, Can. Ent. xl. p. 29 (190S). 



Head and thorax purple-brown ; abdomen grej'-brown. Fore 

 wing yellow-brown, the ante- and postmedial areas purple-brown ; 

 subbasal line slight ; antemedial line double, sinuous, strongly 

 excurved above inner margin ; claviform and orbicular absent ; 

 reniform ill-defined, purple-brown ; medial line oblique from costa 

 to lower angle of cell, then slightly incurved ; postmedial line double, 

 the inner line minutely lunulate, slightly bent outwards ; below 

 costa, oblique to vein 5, then incurved, some white points beyond 



