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N0CTUID.T5. 



8270. Pseudeva purpurigera. 



Leva furpurigera, Wlk. xv. 1791 (1858); Ottolengui, J. N.Y. Eiifc. Soc. 



vii f 1 • Smilln flnf 'Knr.t IV An, - '~> "^ 



)eva furpuriqera, Wlk. xv. 1791 (1858); Ottolei 

 X. pi. vii. i. 1 ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 246. 



Head and thorax red-brown mixed with yellow and pink; antennss 

 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 irrorated 

 with black ; subbasal line i^epresented by a slight red-brown striga 

 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. 113. — Fseudeva 2Jurpungera, c5". \. 



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

 form incompletely defined 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 blackish, excurved 

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

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

 side by 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 broAvn except 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 point, slight 

 curved postmedial line, and somewhat diffused subterminal line. 

 JSah. Canada, Ontario, Orillia {Bttsh), 1 c? type ; U.S.A., 



