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rosta to lower angle of cell, then inwardly oblique; postmedial line 

 double, rufous, bent outwards below costa, obliquely excurved to 

 vein 4, then very oblique, some whitish points beyond it on costa; 

 faint traces of a rufous subtcrminal line excurved below vein 7 and 

 at middle ; a red-brown terminal line. Hind wing pale yellow 

 tinged with rufous, the veins brownish ; a fine brown terminal 

 line; the underside yellowish white faintly tinged with rufous, a 

 slight rufoiis postmedial line excurved to vein 4, then oblique. 



Hah. U.S.A., Eastern, Middle, and Central States, New llamp 

 shire, New York, 1 j, 1 J, Rye {Bird), 1 $, Ehode I. Exp. 

 S 3d, 2 42 millim. 



Larva. Head shining pale brown with a blackish shade over the 

 ocelli. Body sordid whitish without markings; cervical shield and 

 anal plate pale brown with black edges ; tubercles small, black, 

 those around the spiracles larger. Food-plant, Onoclea sensibilis, 

 Linn.— H. G. D. 



*4367. Papaipema speciosissima. (Plate CXXXVIII. fig. 8.) 



Gortyna speciosissima, Gi-ote& Rob. Trans. Am. Ent. See. i. p. 342, pi. vii. 

 f. '52(1868) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 177. 



(S . Head and thorax bright rufous ; abdomen ochreous tinged 

 with rufous, the ventral surface rufous. Fore wing yellow, almost 

 wholly suffused with bright rufous, the veins streaked with rufous ; 

 subbasal line represented by two red striae from costa ; antemedial 

 line double, the outer line less distinct, angled outwards below costa, 

 then sinuous, excurved nbove inner margin ; claviform two small 

 white spots defined by brown ; orbicular a small white bar defined 

 by brown ; reiiiform a very narrow and elongate oblique white 

 lunule defined by brown ; medial line red, oblique from costa to 

 median nervure, then inwardly oblique ; postmedial line double, the 

 inner line fine, slightly bent outwards below costa, oblique and^ 

 minutely waved to vein 5, then inwardly oblique; the terminal 

 area rather redder ; subterminal line indistinct, faintly defined by 

 yellowish on outer side, somewhat dentate, angled outwards at 

 vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a fine rufous terminal line ; cilia 

 bright rufous. Hind wing yellowish suffused with rufous ; traces 

 of a sinuous postmedial line ; a fine rufous terminal line ; the 

 underside wi'^h distinct curved postmedial line. 



Hah. U.S.A., Massachusetts, Nev*^ York, llhode I., New Jersey in 

 Coll. E. Shoemaker. Ex2). 52 millim. 



*4368. Papaipema stenoscelis. (Plate CXXXVIII. fig. 9.) 

 Hydrcecm stenoscelis, Dyar, J. N.Y. Eut. Soa. sv. p. 52 (1907). 



$ . Head and thorax ochreous tinged with rufous and mixed 

 with purplish ; abdomen ochieous white tinged with purplish. 

 Fore wing ochreous tinged with rufous and suffused with purjilish 

 except on inner half of medial area and before postmedial line; 

 antemedial line indistinct, double, nearly straight ; stigmata pure 



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