S2 NOCTUlDiE. 



of minute dark lunules, excurvcd at middle, the dark area beyond 

 it cut off obliquely at apex. Hind wing pale ochreous slightly 

 tinged with rufous ; a fine rufous terminal line ; the underside 

 pale yellow slightly tinged with rufous. 



Hob. Canada, Manitoba, Aweme (Fletcher), 1 $ . Exp. 3t> 

 millim. Type f in Coll. Fletcher. 



4395. Papaipema nelita. (Plate CXXXIX. fig. 2.) 



Hi/droecia nelita, Streck. Lep. Ehop. & Het., Suppl. i. p. 8 (1898) ; Dyar, 

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



2 • Head and thorax brown mixed with purplish grey ; teguke 

 slightly edged with white ; tarsi ringed with white : abdomen 

 grey suffused with brown, the crests brown. Fore wing deep 

 purple-brown irrorated with a few violaceous-white scales, the 

 medial area golden-brown* ; subbasal line represented by a slight 

 brown striga from costa ; antemedial line indistinct, oblique, waved ; 

 claviform represented by a dark patch ; orbicular and reniform dark, 

 very indistinctly defined ; an oblique brown line from lower angle 

 of cell to inner margin ; postmedial line fine, brown, beat outwards 

 below costa, then minutely waved, excurved to vein 4, then in- 

 curved and erect below vein 2, some white points beyond it on 

 costa ; traces of a waved brown subterminal line excurved below 

 vein 7 and at middle ; a fine dark terminal line ; cilia dark brown. 

 Hind wing purplish grey uniformly suffused and irrorated with 

 brown ; cilia brown, greyish at tips ; the underside grey-white 

 irrorated with brown especially on costal area ; a slight discoidal 

 lunule and faint diffused postmedial line. 



A.b. 1. Fore wing with the orbicular a yellowish point, the reni- 

 form a yellowish line surrounded by yellowish- white spots. 



Hab. U.S.A., New York, Eye (Bird), 1 $ , Illinois, Chicago in 

 Coll. J. P. Smith. Exp. 34 millim. 



Larva. Bird, Can. Ent. xxxix. p. 313. 



Semitranslucent whitish ; lines absent ; tubercles and spiracles 

 blackish. Food-plants : Rudbechia laciniata and Arctium lappa. 



4396. Papaipema frigida. (Plate CXXXIX. fig. 3.) 



Hydreecia frigida, Smith, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xxvi. p. 39 (1899) ; Dyar 



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

 Gortyna tkalictri, Lyman, Can. Ent. xxxvii. p. 307 (1905). 

 Gortyna perobsoleta, Lyman, Can. Ent. xxxvii. p. 309 (1905). 



(thaUctri.) Head and thorax deep bronze-brown mixed with grey- 

 white, the tegulse tipped with grey-white ; tarsi ringed with white ; 

 abdomen greyish suffused with brown. Fore wing with the area 

 before the subbasal line, the medial and terminal areas deep golden- 

 bronze, the antemedial, postmedial and terminal areas greyish 

 purple ; subbasal line represented by a waved series of white points 



