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faint dark bar with slight pale line in middle ; traces of an obli(iue 

 dark line from lower angle of cell to inner margin; postmedial 

 line double, bent outwards below costa and oblique below vein 5 ; 

 subterminal line represented by a series of slight yellowish-white 

 luuules, somewhat angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at 

 middle. Hind wing greyish suffused and irrorated with cupreous 

 brown ; the underside whitish slightly irrorated with brown, thickly 

 on costal area, a slight discoidal spot and indistinct rather dilfased 

 curved postmedial line. 



Ab. 1. Fore Aving with the postmedial and subterminal lines 

 obsolescent. 



Hub. U.S.A., New York, Eye {Bird), 3 $ . Exp. 4(5 millim. 



Larva. Dull semihyaline whitish, dorsal line continuous; head 

 chestnut-brown. Eood-plant, CoUinsonia canadensis: the larva 

 entering the stem a few inches above the ground and boring down 

 into the woody root-stock, where a cell is formed. 



4402. Papaipema maritima. (Plate CXXXIX. fig. 9.) 



Papaipema maritima. Bird, Can. Ent. xli. p. 59 (1909). 



Head and thorax red-brown, the scales tipped with white ; 

 abdomen ochreous white mixed with red-brown. Fore wiuir 

 cupreous red-brown irrorated with purplish white ; a very in- 

 distinct obli(jue waved brown antemedial line ; postmedial line 

 indistinct, brown slightly defined by white on outer side, oblique 

 from below costa to vein 6, then inwardly oblique. Hind wing 

 white suffused and irrorated with reddish brown ; the underside 

 with rather diffused curved postmedial line. 



Hab. U.S.A., New York, liye {Bird), 1 c? , 3 $ cotypes. 

 Ed'2). 46 millim. 



Larva. Food-plant, Heliantlius giganteus. 



4403. Papaipema eiipatorii. (Plate CXXXIX. fig. 10.) 

 Gortyna eupatorii, Lyman, Can. Ent. xxxvii. p. 312 (1905). 



(S . Head and thorax deep bronze-brown, the scales tipped with 

 grey-white ; abdomen greyer mixed with brown. Fore wing deep 

 bronze-brown mixed with purplish grey, the area beyond the post- 

 medial line tinged with purple to near termen ; antemedial line 

 indistinct, dark, incurved, from cell to inner margin ; claviform a 

 faint dark mark ; orl)icular an indistinct round dark spot ; reniforni 

 faintly defined by dark brown ; an oblique dark line from lower 

 angle of cell to inner margin ; postmedial line indistinct and defined 

 by whitish on outer side, slightly bent outwards below costa, thei: 

 oblicpie ; siibterminal line foiiued by white scales defined on inner 

 side by slight dark marks, excurved below vein 7 and at middls 

 and angled inwards at discal fold and vein 2 ; cilia with a brown 



