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8270. Pseiideva purpurigera. 



Deva purpuriqera, Wlk. xv. 1791 (1858); Ottolengui, J. N.Y. Ei:t. Sue. 

 X. pi. vii. (. 1 ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 24(5. 



Head and thorax red-browTi mixed with yellow and pink; antennre 

 whitish ; pectus behind and hind legs whitish ; abdomen whitish 

 irrorated with brown, the crests red-brown. Fore wing yellow 

 suffused with rufous and in parts with pink and sparsely iiTorated 

 with black ; subbasal line represented by a slight red-brown strlga 

 from costa and small dark spot below the cell, a curved red-brown 

 shade beyond it from costa ; antemedial line indistinct, double, red- 

 brown, oblique, slightly bent outwards at median nervure ; orbicular 



Fig. W^.—Vscudeva purpurigera, cJ. 



slightly defined by blackish brown, rather diamond-shaped ; reni- 

 form incompletely' detined by blackish brown, narrow and strongly 

 constricted at middle ; antemedial line double, red-brown, excurved 

 to below vein 7, then oblique and with a small black spot on its 

 outer edge at submedian fold, defined on outer side by an oblique 

 pinkish shade arising from apex ; subterminal line bkckish, excurved 

 below costa, angled outwards above vein 3, and ending at tornus ; 

 a fine blackish terminal line except towards tornus, defined on inner 

 side liy a pink line to vein -4; some golden suffusion at middle of 

 terminal area and on inner area towards tornus. Hind wing white 

 tinged with cupreous brown excej^t on costal area to near apex, the 

 terminal area slightly darker ; a fine brown terminal line defined 

 on inner side by a white line to vein 2 ; cilia white ; the underside 

 white slightly irrorated with brown, a brown discoidal ])oint, slight 

 curved postmedial line, and somewhat diffused subterminal line. 

 Hah. Canada, Ontario, Orillia (Bush), 1 d type; U.S.A., 



