ERIOPTGA. 307 



fuscous. Underside of both wings purplish pink irrorated with 

 fuvscous ; a postmedial line oblique on fore wing, excurved below 

 costa on hind wing and not reaehing: inner marp-in. 



Fig. Qb.~ Eriopyc/a tiirca, (J. \. 



Ab. 1. turcella. Smaller and paler. 



Hah. Britain, Leech Coll. ; France, Sand Coll. ; Germany, 

 Zeller, Prey, and Leech Colls. ; N. Italy ; Sweden ; Armenia ; 

 Mongolia, tlrga ; E. Siberia, Amur, 1 ^ , Dahuria, Ussuri ; Japan, 

 Hakodate, 1 S , Oiwake (Pn/er), 2 c^ , Kiushiu, 1 5 » Yokohama 

 {Jonas, Maries), 3 J, 2 J, type limbnta ; Corea, Gensan (Leer/i, 

 Ito), 2 (j" ; C. China, Kiukiang (Pratt), 1 2 ^ Changyang (Pratt), 

 2 c? , 1 2 , Omei-shan, 1 J . E.vjt. 44-54 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. G8 ; Barrett, Lep. Brit. v. p. 179, pi. 206. 

 fig. 1. 



Ochreous yellow freckled with dark grey and purplish, anteriorly 

 suffused with purplish ; dorsal and subdorsal lines pale ochreous, 

 the latter dark-edged ; a dorsal series of dark grey marks ; head 

 brown. Food-plant : grasses. 8-5. 



b^. Hind tibite of male with the fringes of hair much less 

 developed. 

 a^. Fore wing with the anteraedial line angled outwards 



below costa, then erect grandls. 



h"^. Fore wing with the antemedial line oblique throughout, divergens. 

 c^. Fore wing with the antemedial line evenly curved curvata. 



1576. Eriopyga grandis. 



Myfhimna grandis, Butl. A- M. N. H. (5) i. p. 79 (1878); id. 111. Het. 

 B. M. ii. p. 22, pi. 28. f. 7. 



Head and thorax bright rufous to olive-ochreous irrorated with 

 fuscous ; antennso whitish ; abdomen rufous. Fore wing rufous or 

 ochreous, more or less thickly striated with fuscous ; an indistinct 

 waved antemedial line obliciue from costa to middle of cell ; reni- 

 form represented by a whitish discoidal lunule, slightly defined by 

 fuscous and somewhat angled inwards on median nervure ; post- 

 medial line oblique, slightly incurved to costa, somewhat dentate 

 and produced to short streaks on the veins, angled outwards on 

 vein 1 ; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing purplish 

 pink, the discal area suflfused with fuscous ; the underside paler, 



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