GO NOCTl'ID^-. 



while, the daviform and orbicular forming narrow hars separated 

 by the median nL-rvure, ihe renit'urm an oblique bar ; medial line 

 distinct, brown, oblique, slightly excurved at median nervure ; 

 postraedial line doul)le, the inner line indistinct, slightly beul out- 

 wards below costa, excurved to vein 4, tlien oljlique ; subterminal 

 line re])resented by a series of faint dark lunules ; the veins of 

 terminal area with dark streaks; an apical yellow patch. Hind 

 wing ochreous tinged with fuscous ; cilia ochreous. 



Hub. U.S.A., Maryland, Jjaltiniore. Exj). 40 millim. This 

 species is unknown to me ; ligured from a drawing from type in 

 U.S. Nat. Mus. 



, *4369. Papaipema nepbrasyntheta. (Plate CXXXYIII. fig. 10.) 



Gortyna nephrasyntheta, Dyar, Can. Ent. si. p. 78 (1908). 



$ . Head and thorax purple-brown ; abdomen whitish suffused 

 with purple-brown. Fore wing purplish red, the inner jialf to post- 

 medial line and the apical patch yelloAvish red ; a white point at 

 base; subbasal white spots below costa and cell followed by the 

 sinuous red-brown subbasal line defined by white nui:ks on outer 

 side and with white point beyond it in cell ; antemedial line indis- 

 tinct, oblique, sinuous, bent outwards above inner margin ; davi- 

 form represented by two superimposed round white spots; orbicular 

 a small round white spot ; reniform w'ith white centre surrounded 

 by white spots except at middle of inner side ; medial line brown, 

 oblique to median nervure, then minutely waved ; postmcdial line 

 double, strongly bent outwards below costa, then minutely waved, 

 excurved to vein 4, tlieu slightly incurved, some white points 

 beyond it on costa ; subterminal line reddish defined on inner side 

 by brown, minutely dentate, angled outwards at vein 7 and slightly 

 excurved at middle ; a fine red-brown terminal line. Hind wing 

 whitish suffused with red ; a slight discoidal lunule, faint sinuous 

 postmcdial line, and diffused subterminal band. 



Huh. U.S.A., Maryland, Plummer's I. Exp. 54 millim. This 

 species is unknown to me; figured from a drawing from tvpe in 

 U.S. Nat. Mus. 



4370. Papaipema marginidens. (Plate CXXXVJII. fig. 11.) 



Gortyna marginidens, Guen. Koct. i. j). 123 (1852) ; Smith, Cat. Noft, N. 



Am. p. 177. 

 Gortyna liirdi, Dyar, Can. Ent. xl. p. 78 (1908). 



Head and thorax purple-red, the vertex of head whitish ; antennas 

 with the basal joint white ; tegulie tipped with white ; tarsi ringed 

 with white ; abdomen whitish suffused with purplish rufous. Pore 

 wing rufous, the inner area yellower, the antemedial and post- 

 medial areas to vein 1 greyish purjde ; subbasal line waved, from 

 costa to vein 1, with white patches before it below costa and cell, 

 defined by white on outer side and with white point beyond it in 

 cell ; antemedial line indistinctly double, angled inwards on sub- 



