Gt) 



NOCTCIUiE. 



43G3. EmbolcBcia sauzalitae. 



Ochria mmalitcg, Grote, Bull. BufT. Soc. Nat. Sci. ii. p. 216 (1875) ; Smith, 

 Oat. Noct. N. Am. p. 179. 



$ . Head and thora.x ochreous mixed with rufous and red-brown, 

 the .scales sljijlitly tipped with grey ; ahdoinen ochreous irrorated 

 with red-brown. Fore wing yellow irrorated with rufous, the 

 antemedial area, cell and postmedial area suffused with purple- 

 brown, the veins streaked with brown; antemedial line very 



Fig. 20. — Emholcecia sau::alit(B, 5. f- 



indistinct, sinuous and strongly excurved above inner margin ; 

 claviform Avhito defined by dark brown, bifid and divided bv a 

 yellow streak ; orbicular white defined by dark brown and with 

 brown point in middle, small, round ; reniform yelloAv with two 

 small white spots above and three below defined by rufous ; a dif- 

 fused rufous medial line from cell to inner margin ; postmedial lino 

 double, tlie inner line indistinct, the outer strong, purplish fuscous, 

 strongly bent, outwards below costa, oblique and slightly incurved 

 below vein 5 ; subtermiual line angled outwards at veins 7, G, 4, 3, 2 ; 

 a yellow patch at apex ; a fine brown terminal line ; cilia red- 

 brown mixed with greyish and with fine pale line at base. Hind 

 •wing ochreous yellow irrorated with brown, the veins brown ; 

 traces of a curved postmedial line ; a diffused brown subterminal 

 baud except towards costa ; a fine brown terminal line; the under- 

 side ochreous yellow irrorated with red-brown, traces of a slight 

 discoidal lunule and sinuous postmedial line. 



Hah. U.S.A., California, Sauzalita (Behrens), 1 5 type. Ea-j). 

 3G millim. 



Genus PAPAIPEMA. 



Type. 



Papaipema, Smith, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. x.\vi. p. 12 (1899) ccrina. 



Proboscifl fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reacliing about to 

 middle of frons and tuoderat^ly scaled in front, the ^rd siiort ; frons smooth ; 

 I'ves large, round ; antenna of male ciliated ; thorax clothed with hair and 

 scales mixed, teguhc produced to a slight dorsal ridge, tlie prothorax with long 

 flattened oblique crest, the metathorax with divided crest ; tibiae fringed witli 

 Ion" liair ; abdomen with dorsal crests on basal segments. Fore wing with 

 the apex ])rC'ducod and acute, the termen evenly curved and hardly crenulate ; 

 veins 6 aud 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from lU anasio- 



