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KOCIUID-E. 



1)V small white spots except at middle of inner side ; an indistinct 

 oi)li(liie dark line from lower angle of cell to inner margin ; post- 

 medial line indistinct, double, dark with whitish point at costa and 

 lilled in with rufous towards inner margin, bent outwards below 

 costa, then minutely waved, excurved to vein 4, then incurved to 

 lower edge of reniibrm, some whitish ])oiiits beyond it on costa ; 

 subterminal line indistinct, rufous defined on inner side by dark 

 brown and with more prominent, rufous point below costa, slightly 

 waved, excurved below vein 7 and at middle and bent outwards to 

 tornus ; a fine blackish terminal line ; cilia with a faint dark line 

 near base. Hind wing greyish suffused with brown with a cupreous 

 gloss ; a slight dark terminal line: cilia with a fine greyish line at 

 base ; the underside wliitish suffused and irrorated wiili brown, 

 especially on costal and terminal areas, a slight dark discoid.il 

 bar and diffused curved postmedial line. 



Eah. U.8.A., Massachusetts, Mew York, Kye (Bird), 1 (5,3 2 . 

 F.vj). 4G-54 millim. 



Larva. Head reddish brown. Body purplish, translucent ; cervical 

 shield brown with blacldsh sides; anal plate dark brown, rouj>h ; 

 tubercles small dorsally, larger about the spiracles, the four dorsal 

 ones on joint 12 large, nearly touching : a large roughened shield 

 on joint 13. Pood-plant, J^ernonia novehoracencls. — H. G. D. 



439^. Papaipema sciata. (Plate CXXXIX. fig. 5.) 



Hydroecia limpida, Eircl, Can. Ent. xxxiii. p. 64 (1001), aec Gucn. 

 I'apaipema sciata.^ Bird, Can. Ent. xl. p. 28 (1908). 



Head and thorax purplish grey slightly mixed with brown ; 

 antennre whitish ; tegulaj tipped with white ; abdomen pale grey 

 slightly mixed with brown, the crests darker. Fore wing purple- 

 grej% the inner medial area red ; a white point at base ; subbasal 

 line indistinct, bronze-brown, from costa to submedian fold ; ante- 

 medial line indistinct, double filled in with bronze-brown, sinuous, 

 strongly bent outwards above inner margin ; claviform represented 

 by two obliquely placed rounded yellowish white spots, the upper 

 with some bronze scales in centre ; orbicular yellowish-white with 

 some brown scales in centre, rounded ; reniform a narrow yellowish- 

 Avhite luuule defined by brown scales, with white bar on its inner 

 side, constricted at middle and with five white spots on its outer side 

 and Itelow ; an indistinct oblique dark line from lower angle of cell to 

 inner margin ; postmedial line indistinct, double, with whitish spot 

 at costa, bent outwards below costa, then minutely waved, ex- 

 curved to veiu 4, then incurved ; the veins of terminal area with 

 dark stn.'aks ; subterminal line slight, yellowish detined on inner 

 side by fuscous, minutely dentate, angled outwards at vein 7 and 

 excurved at middle ; a dark terminal line. Hind wing grey with 

 fine dark terminal line ; the underside whitish sufl'used and irrorated 

 V ith grey, a rather diffused curved dark postmedial line. 



