PA PA ITEM A. 



Hub. U.S.A.. New York, 1 £, live {Bird), 1 tf, 1 ? colvpe. 

 iEr/?. 40-42 millim. 



Larva. Tale purplish red : dorsal, subdorsal, and lateral lines 

 indistinct, pale ochreous ; tubercles and thoracicplat.es indistinct, 

 brownish. Food-plant, Veronica virginica. 



4399. Papaipema limpida. (Plate CXXXIX. fig. G.) 



Gortyna limpida, Guen. Noct. i. p. 124 (1852) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. 



p. 178. 

 Gortyna eerata, Lyman, Can. Ent. xxxiii. p. 319 (1901). 



Head and thorax dark reddish brown mixed with grey; antenna? 

 with the basal joint and base of shaft white ; tarsi ringed with 

 white ; abdomen greyish suffused with reddish brown. Fore wing 

 dark reddish brown irrorated with grey ; traces of an anteincdial 

 line bent outwards above inner margin ; claviform represented by 

 two rounded white spots defined by black-brown and divided by a 

 brown streak in submedian fold ; orbicular small, round, white 

 defined by black-brown ; reniform nai'row with yellowish-white 

 line in centre defined by brown scales with white spot above it, 

 three white spots below it and a yellowish-white spot on outer edge ; 

 an indistinct rather diffused oblique dark line from lower angle of 

 cell to inner margin ; postmedial line indistinct, double, dark with 

 whitish mark at costa, bent outwards below costa, then minutely 

 waved, excurved to vein 4, then oblique, some slight white points 

 beyond it on costa ; faint traces of a dark subterminal line ex- 

 curved below vein 7 and at middle ; a slight dark terminal line ; cilia 

 with slight white points at base. Hind wing grey suffused with 

 brown, the veins brown ; a slight brown terminal line and faint 

 line at base of cilia from apex to vein 2 ; the underside whitish 

 irrorated with brown especially on costal area, a sinuous brown 

 postmedial line. 



Ab. 1. errata. Fore wing without the white spots on the 

 stigmata. 



Hah. Canada, Montreal (Lyman), 1 $ ; U.S.A., Eastern and 

 Middle States, Massachusetts, New York, Illinois (Doubleday), 1 d , 

 2 $ type. Exp. <$ 34, $ 40 millim. 



Larva.. Lyman, Can. Ent. xl. p. 252. 



Purplish brown with dorsal and subdorsal cream-coloured or 

 whitish stripes, continuous, the 1st four abdominal segments rather 

 darker ; warts dark ; head yellowish brown with purplish-brown 

 streak at sides ; thoracic and anal shields yellow, the former purple- 

 brown at sides. Food-plauts : Arctium lappa and Burdock, boring 

 in the stems. 



4400. Papaipema nebris. (Plate CXXXIX. fig. 7.) 



Gortyna nebris, Guen. Noct,. i. p. 124 (1852). 



Gortyna nitela, Guen. A T oct. i. p. 124(1852); Riley, Am. Ent. i. p. 22, 



