80 XOCTCID.F,. 



4:J9]. Papaipsma cataphracta. (I'laic CXXXVTTI. fig. .'in.) 



Gnrtf/nn cntaphracta, Grote, Proc. Ent. Soc. Pbil. iii. p. 81, pi. ii. f. 3 

 (18tJ4); Siiiiili, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p, 17(>. 



ITcad and thorax dark brown mixed with grey-white ; antennfe 

 with the basal joint wliitish ; tcgulae slightly edged witli wb.ite 

 behind; tarsi with slight pale rings; abdomen greyish ochreous 

 suffused with reddish brown. Fore wing golden yellow irrorated 

 Avith dark brown, the antemedial, postmedial, and the terminal area 

 except a patch at apex dark greyish brown, the veins with dark 

 streaks ; a ycllo\\' patch at base traversed by the faint waved sub- 

 basal line from costa to subraedian fold and with yellow spot 

 beyond it in cell; antemedial line double tilled in with yellow, 

 inwardly oblique and sinuous from costa to vein 1. then bent 

 outwards above inner margin ; claviform represented by a double 

 yellow spot defined by brown and bisected by a slight brown streak 

 in subinedian fold ; orbicular large, round, yellow defined by brown 

 and with a few brown scales in centre ; reniform large, with sinuous 

 jellow line in centre defined by brown, surrounded by yellow 

 spots divided by streaks on the veins; a medial yellow shade 

 from costa to median nervure, then an oblique line to inner 

 margin ; postmedial line double filled in with yellow, bent out- 

 wards below costa and oblique below vein G, with slight yellow 

 points beyond it on costa ; a faint minutely waved brown subter- 

 minal line, incurved before the yellow apical patch, then with sliglit 

 yellow marks on its outer edge ; a slight dark terminal line. Hind 

 wing greyish suflused with brown ; a diffused brown subterminal 

 band ; a fine brown terminal line ; the underside whitish irrorated 

 with red-brown, a faint discoidal lunule and diflTused subterminal 

 band. 



Huh. C.\NAn.v (Norman) 1 $, Ottawa {Fletcher, Young), 4 d" , 

 Ontario, Orilla {Bush), 1 S '■, U.S.A., Massachusetts, New York, 1 d" , 

 Rye {Bird), 1 d , 1 2 , Colorado. Exp. 32-40 millim. 



Larva. Head reddish brown with a black stripe from ocelli to 

 occiput. Uody faintly purpli^h, translucent, with whitish dorsal 

 and broader lateral stripes; cervical shield and anal plate pale brown 

 witli black borders ; tubercles large, brown, two large contiguous 

 shields on joint 13. Food-plants : Wild Parsnip, &c. — H. G. D. 



*4392. Papaipema imperspicita. (Plate CXXXVIII. fig. 31.) 

 Papaipema imperspicua. Bird, Can. Ent. xl. p. 29 (1908). 



Head and thorax purple-brown ; abdomen grej'-brown. Fore 

 wing j-ellow-brown, the ante- and postmedial areas purple-brown ; 

 bubbasal line slight ; antemedial line double, sinuous, strongly 

 excurved above inner margin ; claviform and orbicular absent ; 

 reniform ill-defined, purple-brown ; medial line obli(iue from costa 

 to lower angle of cell, then slightly incurved ; postmedial line double, 

 the inner line minutely lunulate, slightly bent outwards below 

 costa, oblique to vein 5, then incurved, some white points beyond 



