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line through them. Hind wing greyish suffused with cupreous 

 brown, the cilia rather paler with a brown line through them ; the 

 underside whitish irrorated with brown especially on costal and 

 terminal areas, a slight discoidal bar and diffused oblique post- 

 medial line. 



Bab. Canada, Montreal, Quebec ; U.S.A., Pennsylvania, New 

 Brighton (Bird), 1 d . Exp. 42 millim. 



Larva. Bird, Can. Ent. xxxix. p. 312. 



Pale sienna-brown ; dorsal, subdorsal, and lateral lines broad, 

 cream-coloured, absent on 1st four abdominal somites ; tubercles 

 weak ; head yellow. Pood-plant, Eiipatorium. 



4404. Papaipema necopina. (Plate CXXXIX. fig. 11.) 



Gortyna necopina, Grote, Can. Ent. viii. p. 25 (1876) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. 

 K Am. p. 179. 



Head and thorax reddish brown irrorated with grey-white ; 

 antennae with the basal joint white, the shaft ringed with white ; 

 abdomen ochreous white suffused with reddish brown. Pore wing 

 reddish brown thickly irrorated with grey-white and without trace 

 of markings. Hind wing whitish thickly irrorated with pale 

 reddish brown especially on terminal area; cilia white mixed with 

 reddish brown ; the underside white irrorated with reddish brown 

 especially on costal and terminal areas. 



Bab. U.S.A., New York, Buffalo, 1 J , 1 $ type. Exp. S 36, 

 $ 48 millim. 



Pood-plant, Helianthus tuberosus. 



4405. Papaipema imperturbata. (Plate CXXXIX. (ig. 12.) 



Papaipe?na imperturbata, Bird, Can. Ent. xxxix. p. 274 (1907). 



2 . Head and thorax dark brown largely mixed with grey- 

 white ; abdomen grey thickly irrorated with brown. Fore wing- 

 deep bronze-brown thickly irrorated Avith white and without trace 

 of markings. Hind wing whitish irrorated with brown ; a fine 

 terminal brown line from apex to vein 2 ; the underside with the 

 costal area thickly irrorated with brown. 



Bab. U.S.A., Pennsylvania, Xew Brighton (Bird), 1 $ cotypc. 

 Exp. 32 millim. 



Larva. Pale sienna-brown ; lines broad, straw-coloured, the 

 dorsal line uninterrupted, the others interrupted on somites 3 to 7 ; 

 tubercles minute ; spiracles and legs black head shining reddish. 

 Pood-plant, Helianthus divaricatus. 



