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4380. Papaipema arctivorens, n. sp. (Plate CXXXVIII. fig. 21.) 



Head and thorax puri)le mixed with yellow ; antennae with the 

 basal joint w^hite ; teg-ulae slightly edged with yellow behind ; 

 abdomen yellow tinged with rufous, the crests dark. Fore wing 

 yellow irrorated with bright rufous, the postmedial area purplish, 

 the terminal area suffused with red-brown except at apex, the veins 

 shghtly streaked with brown, subbasal line rufous defined on outer 

 side by slight yellow marks and with yellow point beyond it in cell, 

 sinuous, from fosta to submedian fold ; antemedial line indistinct, 

 inwardly oblique and sinuous to vein 1, then bent outwards above 

 inner margin ; claviform represented by two obliquely placed Avhite 

 spots defined by brown, the upper small ; orbicular small, elliptical, 

 white defined by brown ; reniform with sinuous oblique yellow line 

 in centre defined by rufous, with curved white mark on inner edge 

 above, white point below and two white points beyond low'or 

 extremity ; a slight sinuous rufous medial line, oblique to median 

 nervuro, then inwardly oblique ; postmedial line double, the inner 

 line indistinct and rufous except at cost a where it is filled in with 

 yellow, strongly bent outwards below* costa, then minutely waved, 

 erect to vein G, then oblique, some whitish points beyond it on 

 costa; a yellowish minutely waved subferminal line, incurved 

 below costa and defining the yellowish apical patch, excurved at 

 middle ; cilia greyish brown. Hind wing ochreous white tinged 

 with rufous, the veins brownish ; a faint diffused subferminal 

 brown band ; the underside yellowish white, the costal and terminal 

 areas suffused and irrorated with rufous ; a slight discoidal line 

 and curved postmedial line. 



Hah. Caxada, Montreal (Bird\ 1 J . E.vp. 36-44 millim. Six 

 males and five females in Coll. Bird examined. 



Larva. Food-plants : Burdock and Thistle. 



438 1 . Papaipema harrisi. 



Gortyna harrisii, Grofe. Bull. U.S. Geol. Geog. Suiv. Terr. vi. pp. 2()8, 276 

 (]881); Smith, Cat. ]N'oL-t. N. Am. p. 177. 



S • Head and thorax bright rufous mixed with red-brown ; 



Fig. 21. — Vajtaipcma harrid, ^. \. 



antennie with the basal joint pure Avhite : fore tarsi ringed with 

 white ; abdomen yellowish irrorated with dark broun. Fore win"- 



