S2 NOCTDIDJE. 



of luiiiuto (lark luiiules, excurvcd at middle, the dark area Itoyoiul 

 it cut off obliqnc'lj- at apex. Hind winj!: pale ochrcous 8lip;htly 

 tin<;cd willi rufous; a fine rufous toniiiisiil line; the underside 

 l-ale yellow slightly tinged Avith rufous. 



Halt. Canada, Manitoba, Aweme {FUtclier), 1 c? . E,vp. 3(5 

 inillira. Type f in Coll. Fletcher. 



4395. Papaipema nelita. (riato CXXXIX. fig. 2.) 



Hi/droicia mlifa, Streck. Lep. Ehop. & Ilet., Suppl. i. p. 8 (1898) ; I\v;ir, 

 "Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 170. 



2 . Head and thorax brown mixed with purplish grey ; tegula) 

 slightly edged with white ; tarsi ringed with white : abdomen 

 grey suffused wath brown, the crests brown. Fore wing deep 

 purple-brown irrorated with a few violaceous-white scales, the 

 medial area golden-brown ; subbasal line represented by a slight 

 brown striga from costa; antemcdial line indistinct, oblicpie, waved ; 

 claviform represented by a dark patch ; orbicular and reniform dark, 

 verj- indistinctly defined ; an oblique brown line from lower angle 

 of cell to inner margin ; postmedial line fine, brown, bent outwards 

 below costa, then minutely waved, exeurved to vein 4, then in- 

 curved and erect below vein 2, some white ])oints beyond it on 

 costa; traces of a waved brown subterminal line exeurved below 

 vein 7 and at middle ; a fine dark terminal line ; cilia dark brown. 

 Hind wing purplish grey' uniformly sufi'used and irrorated with 

 brown ; cilia brown, greyish at tips ; the underside grey-white 

 irrorated with brown especially on costal area ; a slight discoidal 

 lunule and faint diffused postmedial line. 



.ib. 1. Fore wing with the orbicular a yellowish point, the reni- 

 form a yellowish line surrounded by yellowish- white spots. 



llah. U.S.A., Xew York, llye {Bird), 1 $ , Illinois, Chicago in 

 Coll. J. K Smith. Krji. 34 millim. 



Larva. Bird, Can. Ent. xxxix. p. 313. 



Semitranslucent whitish ; lines absent ; tubercles and spiracles 

 blackish. Food-plants: Kudheckia laciniaia and Arctium lappa. 



4396. Papaipema frigida. (Plate CXXXIX. fig. 3.) 



Hydracia frhjida, Smitli, 'Cians. Aui. Eut. Soc. xxvi. p. 39 (1899) ; Dyar 



Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 176. 

 Gortyva ihnlictri, Lyman, Can. Ent. xxxvii. p. 307 (190.'i). 

 Gortyna perobsoleta, Lyman, Can. Ent. xxxvii. p. 309 (1905). 



(thalictri.) Head and thorax deep bronze-brown mixed with grey- 

 white, the tegulai tipped with grey-white; tarsi ringed with white; 

 abdomen greyisli suffused with brown. Fore wing with the area 

 before the sul)basal line, the medial and termiiiai areas deep golden- 

 bronze, the antemedial, postmedial .and terminal areas greyi.sh 

 purule ; subbasal line represented by a waved series of white points 



