EKIOl'TGA. 313 



curved subbasal line from costa to submedian fold ; anteraedial line 

 indistinct, defined by grey on inner side, waved, oblique from costa 

 to median nervure, then erect ; orbicular and reniform large, brown 

 irrorated with grey and with grey annuli, the former elliptical, the 

 latter rather concave towards base ; an indistinct medial line from 

 cell to inner margin : postmedial line defined by grey on outer side, 

 bent outwards below costa and strongly incurved below vein 4, an 

 indistinct series of short blacli streaks interrupted by grey points 

 on the veins beyond it ; subterminal line grey defined by rufous on 

 inner side, slightly excurved below costa ; a terminal series of black 

 points defined by an indistinct crenulate grey line. Hind wing 

 fuscous brown; the cilia pale rufous; tlie underside whitish irrorated 

 with brown, a dark discoidal iuuule and traces of a curved postmedial 

 line. 



Hah. Brazil, Eio Janeiro, 1 c? , 1 $ , type ; Ecuador, Riobamba, 

 1 $ . Exp. 32 millim. 



D. Mid femora of male with fold containing a tuft of ochreons hair ; abdomen 

 with lateral fringes of hair towards extremity ; both wings on underside 

 with the basal costal area and cell clothed with rough hair and scales. 



158G. Eriopyga lamptera. 



Agrotis lamptera, Druce, P. Z. S. 1890, p. 513 ; id. Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. 

 ■ ii. p. 482, pi. 94. f. 2. 



(S . Head and thorax fulvous ; abdomen fuscous black, the lateral 

 fringes of hair, the anal tuft, and ventral surface fulvous. Fore 

 wing pale fulvous with slight darker irroration, the costal area with 

 an olive tinge ; antemedial and medial straight lines from cell to 

 inner margin ; orbicular and reniform rather darker with pale annuli, 



Fig. 70. 



oblique, quadrate, open above and below; postmedial line fine, fuscous 

 defined by pale colour on inner side, straight and oblicjue from costa 

 to submedian fold, then slightly bent outwards ; subterminal line 

 represented by a sei-ies of minute indistinct dentate dark marks, 

 very slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle: a 

 terminal series of black points. Hind wing semihyaline white, the 

 veins, costal and inner areas, and a terminal line fuscous brown ; 

 the underside with the costal area tinged with rufous, a postmedial 

 series of rufous strito on the veins. 



