86 N0CTUIDJ5. 



f. 11; Le Baron, 3rd Rept. Ins. 111. p. 141, ff. 1, 2; Pack. 9th Ann. 

 Rept. G-eol. Surv. p. 719, pi. 65. f. 6; Sauncl. Fruit Insects, p. 334, 

 ff. 347-8 ; Lint. 1st Rept." New York State Ent. p. 110, f. 26; Smith, 

 Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 178. 



Head and thorax reddish brown mixed with grey-white ; vertex 

 of head whitish ; antennae with the shaft whitish towards base ; 

 tarsi ringed with white ; abdomen yellowish white suffused with 

 reddish brown, the crests darker. Fore wing olive-brown tinged 

 with grey, the postmedial area somewhat paler ; antemedial line 

 indistinct, brown defined slightly by whitish on inner side, some- 

 what angled outwards below costa, incurved in cell and bent out- 

 wards above inner margin ; claviform represented by two small 

 white spots defined by brown ; orbicular small, conical, white 

 defined by brown and with brown point in centre ; reniforin a 

 small white lunule defined by brown with white spot above it and 

 three white points below it; postmedial line slight, brown defined 

 on outer side by whitish, slightly bent outwards below costa, oblique 

 and slightly sinuous below vein 4, some white points beyond it on 

 costa ; subterminal line represented by a series of slight white 

 marks defined on inner side by small dentate brown marks, ex- 

 curved below vein 7 and at middle and bent outwards to tornus ; 

 a slight brown terminal line ; cilia brown with slight pale line at 

 base. Hind wing pale grey-brown with a reddish tinge ; cilia with 

 a slight pale line at base ; the underside whitish tinged and irro- 

 rated with brown especially on apical half of terminal area, a slight 

 discoidal point. 



Ab. 1. nitela. Fore wing with the claviform, orbicular, and reni- 

 forin obscure without white spots. 



Hab. Canada ; U.S.A., South to Georgia and West to Ttocky Mts., 

 Massachusetts, Cambridge (Burr/ess), 1 2, New York (Packard), 

 2 c?, Hye (Bird), 1 J , 1 $, Illinois (Doubleday), 4 <$ , 1 $ , type 

 and type nitela, Algon, 1 <$ . Exp. 38-42 millim. 



Larva. Head light brown with a curved black stripe on each side 

 from ocelli to occiput. Body sordid whitish, shaded with purplish 

 in the middle ; dorsal and subdorsal diffused whitish lines, lost 

 centrally in the purplish shade; cervical shield and anal plate 

 large, brown with black sides ; tubercles black, a large brown area 

 around iv. ; thoracic feet black. Food-plant^ : stems of various 

 plants, Ambrosia trifida, Burdock, &c. — H. G. T>. 



4401. Papaipema duplicata. (Plate CXXXIX. fig. 8.) 



Papaipema duplioatus, Bird, Can. Ent. xl. p. 25 (1908). 



2 . Head and thorax deep bronze-brown, the scales tipped with 

 grey- white ; abdomen greyer mixed with brown. Fore wing deep 

 bronze-brown irrorated with white, some purple-grey suffusion 

 beyond postmedial line ; antemedial line indistinct, double, obsolete 

 towards costa, incurved from cell to vein 1 and bent outwards 

 above inner margin ; orbicular a faint round dark spot ; reniform a 



