322 noctcidjf;. 



c. Thorax of male without tufts of scales on pectus. 

 a^. Abdomen of male thickly clothed with woolly hair. 



a^. Hind wing of male with the inner margin fringed with 

 very long hair. 



*1599. Eriopyga 'brachia. 



Eriopyga brachia, de Joan. ined. 



(S . Head and thorax red-brown mixed with grey ; abdomen 

 grey tinged with rufous, the extremity ferruginous. Fore wing 

 grey suffused with rufous and sparsely irrorated with large black 

 scales; subbasal line indistinct, pale slightly defined by brown, 

 waved from costa to submedian fold, with a small black spot beyond 

 it in cell; antemedial line whitish defined by fuscous on each 

 side, waved ; orbicular and retiiform large, with brown centres and 

 blackish annuli defined by whitish, the former rather diamond- 

 shaped, touching at middle the latter which is elliptical ; _ post- 

 medial line blackish, defined by whitish on outer side, slightly 



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Fig. 75. — Eriojjyga brachia, (^ . \. 



bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then strongly 

 incurved, a series of black points beyond it on the veins ; sub- 

 terminal line yellowish, defined on each side by red-brown, very 

 slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and incurved at submediau fold ; 

 a terminal series of black points. Hind wing fuscous brown, pale 

 towards base and inner margin ; the underside pale, the costal and 

 terminal areas irrorated with brown, a black discoidal lunule and 

 curved punctiform postmedial line. 



Hah. Brazil, New Fribourg, Organ Mts. (Gonnelle), type t in 

 Coll. de Joannis. Exp. 26 millim, 



b'^. Hind wing of male with the inner margin normal. 

 a^. Fore wing with the cilia non-crenulate. 



«"•. Fore wing with the postmedial line double, sinuous 



and strongly excu rved beyond cell rhadata. 



i*. Fore wing with the postmedial line single, 



minutely dentate and slightly curved crista. 



*1600. Eriopyga rhadata. 



Mamestra rhadata, Druce, A. M. N. H. ((i) xiii. p. 360 (1894) ; id. Biol. 

 Centr.-Am., Het. ii. p. 476, pi. 93. f. 12. 



5 . Head and thorax very dark brown with slight grey 

 irroration ; abdomen fuscous brown. Fore wing dark olive-brown 

 Buffused with silvery purple ; subbasal line double, waved, from 



