68 NOCTl'lD-E. 



outer 0(1^0, ans^leil outwards at voin 7, excurved and waved at 

 middle, incurved at discal and suhmedian folds ; a line brown 

 terminal line; cilia purplish at base, dark brown at ti[)s. Hind 

 wins pale yellow, the veins and terminal area tinged with purplish : 

 an indistinct sinuous postmedial line and traces of a diHused sub- 

 terminal band ; the underside with the costal area irrorated -with 

 jmrplish red, a discoidal jioint, curved ])ostmedial line and indistinct 

 diflused subterminal band. 



Hal,. U.S.A., New York, Rye (//. Bird), 1 S cotvpe. Exp. 

 i38 millini. 



Larva. Semitranslucent ; 1st four abdominal segments dark, the 

 outer segments Avirh pale dorsal, subdorsal, and lateral lines, the 

 dorsal line showing slightly on the dark somites ; head yellow -with 

 dark lateral line. Eood-plant, Ba]itisia titntorina. 



*4372. Papaipema fmxata. (Plate CXXXVIIL fig. 13.) 



Hydracia fiirratu, Sniitli. Trans. Am. Ent. >io^. xxvi. p. 40 (1899); Dyar, 

 Cat. Lep. 2«. Am. p. 177. 



S . Head and thorax pale yellow mixed with rufous ; antennas 



with the basal joint white ; pectus and legs whitish tiiiged with 



rufous; al)domen oohreous white. Fore wing pale yellow more or 



less suffused with rufous, the veins slightly streaked with red-brown ; 



traces of a waved red-brown subbasal line from costa to submediau 



fold ; antemedial line very indistinct, waved, red-brown, with pure 



white spots before it in cell and above vein 1 ; claviform represented 



by two round pure white spots defined by red-brown, tlie upper 



rather smaller ; orbioular pure white defined by red-brown, round ; 



reniform with pale yellow lunule at centre and spot on outer edge, 



defined by three small white spots above and four below all defined 



by red-brown ; an oblique diffused rufous shade from lower apgle 



of cell to inner margin ; postmedial line double, red-brown, bent 



outwards below costa, then crenulate, excurved to vein 4, then 



oblique ; subterminal line red-brown, dentate, excurved below vein 7 



and at middle, a yellow patch beyond it at apex ; a fine red-brown 



terminal line. Hind wing very pale yellow ; the underside whiter, 



the costa and veins slightly tinged with rufous, traces of a curved 



]iostmedial line. 



Hah. U.S.A., Xew Hampshire, Manchester, New York, Long I., 

 New Jersey, Carlstadt, AVashiiigton, D.C. {Haii), in U.S. Nat. Mus., 

 Illinois, Urbana. ]'2xj). 44 millim. 



4373. Papaipema circiimlucens. (Plate CXXXVIII. fig. 14.) 



Ili/droicia circumliicens. Smith, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xsvi. p. 43 (1899) ; 

 Dyar, Cat. Lep. JN". Am. p. 176. 



cJ , Head and thorax purplish rufous mixed with some greyish, 

 the mesothorax with some orange fulvous ; aMtenmc with the 1st 

 joint white ; pectus and legs rufous, the tarsi slightly ringed witli 

 white ; abdomen rufous tinged with purplish brown, the crests 



