PAPAIPEMA. By Dr. M. Draudt. 
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P. duovata Bird (41 f). Forewing yellow, densely strewn with brown and black, in the marginal area duovata. 
more purple-tinted with white maculae, partly with a slight yellowish tint, also the most central of the small 
distal spots at the reniform macula is yellow; the double posterior transverse line is filled up with yellow. Hind¬ 
wing yellowish-brown. New York. — The diaphanous purple brownish larva with broad white longitudinal 
lines lives in Solidago sempervirens. 
P. imperspicua Bird (41 g) is larger than duovata with broader wings, irrorated more with purple imperspi- 
brown and characterized by the entirely absent coniform macula and ring-macula, the purple brown reniform 
macula being rather indistinct; instead of the apical spot there is only a yellowish streak. Hindwing monotonously 
blackish-brown. New Hampshire, New York, Buffalo. 
P. pertincta Dyar is very similar to duovata (41 f), but the colour is a more lustrous purple brown, pertincla. 
the scaling smoother, the central area near the hind-margin ochreous-yellow, above the median densely irrorated 
with dark brown; all the maculae, also the small spots of the reniform macula light yellow, distinctly larger 
than in duovata. Hindwing dark brownish-grey. Expanse of wings: 32 mm. Described according to a <$ fed 
on Lupinus polyphyllus. 
P. rigida Grt. (41 g) is quite a different, small, quite light yellow species, feebly strewn with red-brown rigida. 
and particularly in the marginal area, except the apex, irrorated with purple, with finely redbrown striped 
veins; maculae not lighter than the ground, surrounded with red-brown, the posterior transverse line is very 
strong. Hindwing yellowish-white, at the margin feebly red-brown. Canada to New York and Pennsylvania. 
-— Larva dull reddish with yellow longitudinal lines; it lives in Heliopsis helianthoides, Helianthus decapetalus, 
tuberosus, Arctium, and Zizzia aurea. 
P. unimoda 8m. (41 g) is the most similar to imperspicua, but it lacks the purple antemedian and unimoda. 
postmedian darkening; only the coniform macula is absent, the upper maculae are in the red-brown ground 
surrounded by a feebly darker colour; in the apex a lighter oblique spot. Hindwing ochreous-brown. Colorado. 
P. errans B. & McD. (41 g) is a small species allied to unimoda, but the posterior transverse line errans. 
is rectilinear, not dentate, and towards the hincl-margin it bends distally; forewing purple brown, strewn with 
white and particularly in the central area towards the hind-margin and in the marginal area irrorated with 
golden yellow; the maculae are dull and indistinctly surrounded, the reniform macula 8-shaped; hindwing 
smoky brown. Expanse of wings: 26 mm. Arizona, described from a <$. 
P. aweme Lyman (41 e) is also allied to the preceding species, but easily discernible by the transverse aioeme. 
lines being only single; ground-colour ochreous-brown, irrorated with red-brown and grey, before the central 
area and towards the margin blackish-brown, the brown maculae surrounded by blackish. Hindwing light 
ochreous-brown. From Canada. 
P. nelita Streck. (41 h) like the folloAving ones has deep purple brown forewings, in the discal area nelita. 
bronze-coloured, the dark maculae quite indistinctly surrounded, and with dark single transverse lines; the 
undulate line is quite indistinctly present. Hindwing purple greyish-brown. — ab. linda Bird has the maculae linda. 
in the usual way coloured white, only the most central distal spot at the reniform macula is yellow. -— ab. 
orbicularis Strd. (— ab. 1 Hmps .) in a certain way forms a transition to it; here the ring-macula is a yellow orbicularis. 
dot, the reniform macula exhibits the usual yellow central streak, surrounded by small yellowish-white spots. 
— The diaphanous whitish larva with black tubercles lives in Rudbeckia laciniata and Arctium. 
P. sciata Bird (= limpida Bird nec Gn.) (41 g) is very similar to the form linda of the preceding sciata. 
species, the forewing is more purple grey, in the hindmarginal half of the central area red, the double transverse 
lines filled up with bronze brown, the yellowish-white maculae centred with bronze brown scales; the yellowish 
undulate line is finely dentate, proximally bordered with blackish-brown. Hindwing grey. New York. — 
The light purple reddish larva with yellowish longitudinal lines lives in Veronica virginica. 
P. apicata Dyar (41 h) is somewhat similar to sciata, but much more abundantly marked with white, apicata. 
and there are also white spots at the base of the shoulder-covers; at the apex there is an elliptical spot parted 
by the brown veins and clouded with brown. Hindwing smoky grey. The only species of the genus known 
from Mexico (Zacualpan) flies in September. 
P. frigida Sm. (— perobsoleta Lyman) (41 h). Forewing deep golden bronze, before and behind frigida. 
the central area as well as at the margin tinted with purple grey, with double transverse lines and equally 
coloured maculae surrounded by a darker colour; the undulate line consists of small dark moon-spots proceeding 
from the yellow apical spot. Hindwing grey with a coppery tint. -— ab. thalictri Lyman (41 h) has the maculae thalidri. 
marked with white, the round ring-macula distally shows a yellow dot, the reniform macula is divided into 
spots and shows the usual yellow central line. — ab. terminalis Strd. (= ab. 2 Hmps.) is in the marginal area terminalis. 
not tinted golden brown and has a shorter reniform macula. Canada to New York. — The diaphanous whitish 
larva with light reddish-brown belt-markings which disappear in its further growth, lives in species of Thalictrum. 
P. cerussata Grt. (41 f as cerusata). Exterior similar to sciata, but it is twice as large; the central cerussata. 
area is towards the hind-margin irrorated with yellow, towards the distal margin with a purple grey reflection, 
the maculae are white; the indistinct red-brown undulate line is proximally shaded with a darker brown; 
hindwing greyish-brown with a coppery reflection. Massachusetts, New York. -— The diaphanous purple brownish 
larva lives in Vernonia noveboracensis. 
