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KOCTTTTD-aS. 



by small white spots except at middle of inner side; an indistinct 

 oblique dark line from lower angle of cell to inner margin ; post- 

 medial line indistinct, double, dark with whitish point at eosta and 

 filled in with rufous towards inner margin, bent outwards below 

 cost a, then minutely waved, excurved to vein 4. then incurved to 

 lower edge of reniform, some whitish points beyond it on cost a ; 

 Bubterminal line indistinct, nitons defined on inner side by dark 

 brown and with more prominent rufous point below costa, slightly 

 waved, excurved below vein 7 and at middle and bent outwards to 

 tornus : a tine blackish terminal line ; cilia with a faint dark line 

 near base. Hind wing- greyish suffused with brown with a cupreous 

 gloss ; a slight dark terminal line: cilia with a tine greyish line at 

 base : the underside whitish suffused and irrorated with brown. 

 especially on costal and terminal areas, a slight dark discoid.il 

 bar and diffused curved postmedial line. 



Hah. I.S.A.. Massachusetts. New York, Rye (Bird), 1 <? , 3 £. 

 F.cp. 46-54 niillim. 



Larva. Head reddish brown. Body purplish, translucent ; cervical 

 shield brown with blackish sides: anal plate dark brown, rough; 

 tubercles small dorsally. larger about the spiracles, the four dorsal 

 ones on joint 12 large, nearly touching : a large roughened shield 

 on joint 13. rood-plant, Ventonia noveboracencis. — H. G. D. 



439^. Papaipema sciata. (Plate CXXXIX. fig. 5.) 



Hydracia limpida, Bird, Can. Ent. xxxiii. p. 04 (1901), nee Guen. 

 P< aid, Bird, Can. Ent. xl. p. 28 (19l 18 



Head and thorax purplish grey slightly mixed with brown ; 

 antenna? whitish ; tegulse tipped with white ; abdomen pale grey 

 slightly mixed witli brown, the crests darker. Pore wing purple- 

 grey, the inner medial area red ; a white point at base; subbasal 

 line indistinct, bronze-brown, from costa to submcdian fold ; ante- 

 medial line indistinct, double filled in with bronze-brown, sinuous. 

 strongly bent outwards above inner margin ; claviform represented 

 In- two obliquely placed rounded yellowish white spots, the upper 

 with some bronze scales in centre : orbicular yellowish-white with 

 some brown scales in centre, rounded ; reniform a narrow yellowish- 

 white lunule defined by brown scales, with white bar on its inner 

 side, constricted at middle and with live white spots on its outer, side 

 and below ; an indistinct oblique dark line from lower angle of cell to 

 inner margin ; postmedial line indistinct, double, with whitish spot 

 at costa, bent outwards below costa. theu minutely waved, ex- 

 curved to vein 4. then incurved; the veins of terminal area with 

 dark streaks : subterminal line slight, yellowish defined on inner 

 side bv fuscous, minutely dentate, angled outwards at vein 7 and 

 excurved at middle : a dark terminal line. Hind wing grey with 

 fine dark terminal line ; the underside whitish suffused and irrorated 

 with grey, a rather diffused curved dark postmedial line. 



