70 NocTuin.T:. 



♦4384. Papaipeuia limata. (Tlato CXXXVllI. fig. 24.) 



PapaijjcmaliouU,!, Uird, Can. Ent. xl. p. 30 (1908). 



(^ . Head aiifl thorax yellow suffused with pinkish ; abdomen 

 ■\vliito tinged with yellow. Fore wing bright lonion-yellow, the 

 ante- and jiostnu-dial areas tinged with jjinkish ; subbasal line 

 slight ; antrnu'dial line red-brown, waved, obsolete towards inner 

 margin ; claviforni white, formed by two continent elli])tical spots ; 

 orbicular and reniform small, white defined by red-brown, the 

 former ellijitical, the latter with its annulus broken up into spots, 

 some ])inkish suffusion between them ; postraedial line double, the 

 injier line very fine, slightl)' bent outwards below costa, erect to 

 vein (■). tlien inwardly oblique, some white points beyond it on costa ; 

 subtorniiiial line only defined by the contrast between the post- 

 medial and terminal areas ; cilia pinkish. Hind wing white tinged 

 with yellow; cilia pinkish ; the underside yellowish irrorated with 

 pink. 



J/dh. U.S.A., Washington, Pullman. Exjj. 30 millini. This 

 species is uidcnown to me ; fii^ured from a drawing from tvpe in 

 Coll. H. Eird. 



*4385. Papaipema latia. 



Hi/drcecia lafia, Streclc. Lep. Eliop. & Ilet., Supjol. 2, p. (j (1899) ; Dyar, 

 Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 177. 



Head reddish brown ; thorax rather paler ; abdomen paler. Fore 

 wing yellow suffused with rufous, the postmedial area suffused with 

 ])urplish brown ; antemedial line purjdish, indistinct ; orbicular 

 very small, round, white ; reniform white with a few rufous scales 

 on it ; medial line dark, oblique from costa to median nervure, then 

 inwardly oblique ; i^stmedial line dark purple, very strong, oblique 

 and straight from costa to inner margin -, subterniinal line sinuous ; 

 terminal area with the veins streaked with purple. Hind wing 

 Avhite tinged with reddish. 



Jfah. U.S.A., Illinois, Chicago. Rqy. 40 milHm. This species 

 is unknown to me. 



4386. Papaipema purpurifascia. (Plate CXXXVllI. fig. 25.) 



Gorti/va pnrpuri fascia , Grote & Rob. Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. i. p. 341, 1)1.7. 

 f. 51 (1868) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 176. 



$ . Head and thorax bright rufous mixed with yellow ; antenna) 

 with the basal joint pure white; tcgulae tipped with yellowish; 

 ])atagia with the outer edge and tips and the tip of metathoracic crest 

 dark brown ; pectus and legs red-brown, the tarsi with faint whitish 

 rings; abdomen yellowish tinged with rufous, the crests broAvn. 

 Fore wing yellow more or less suffused with fiery rufous, the post- 

 medial area purplish brown except at inner margin ; subbasal line 

 rufous defined on each side by yellow, waved, from costa to vein 1, 

 a Yillow point brvind it in cell ; the antemedial area vrith some 



