EKIOPYGA. 323 



costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line double, oblique, waved ; 

 orbicular and reniform defined by olive-brown, the former small, 

 round, the latter constricted at middle ; an obscure medial shade 

 angled at middle ; postmedial line double, very slightly waved, 

 oblique from costa to vein 6, incurved below vein 4 ; subterminal 

 line waved, almost obsolete except towards costa, and with a 

 rufous spot beyond it at tornus ; cilia tinged with rufous. Hind 

 wing fuscous brown, with the lower part of cell and area below 

 it whitish ; cilia with fine white line at base and white tips ; 

 the underside with the costal area irrorated with grey, a black 

 discoidal spot and sinuous postmedial line. 



Hah. Mexico, Coatepec, Orizaba. Exp. 50 millim. 



1601. Eriopyga crista. 



Mamestra. crista, Wlk. ix. 235 (1856). 



Agrotis oropkila, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 286 (nee Geyer). 

 Agrotis obscurus, Dogn. Le Nat. 1889, p. 67. 



Mamestra infernalis, Schaus, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xxi. p. 227 (1894 j; 

 Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. ii. p. 476, pi. 93. f. 11. 



Head and thorax fuscous brown, sometimes tinged with purplish 

 or reddish, the hairs tipped with grey; tibiae ochreous at extremity; 

 abdomen fuscous brown, with a greyish tiuge in male. Fore wing 



Fig. 76.— Eriopgga crista, (^. |. 



silky purplish brown ; traces of a waved subbasal line from costa to 

 submedian fold ; an indistinct waved medial line often slightly 

 defined by ochreous on inner side ; orbicular and reniform with 

 ochreous annuli slightly defined by black, the former minute or 

 small ; postmedial line dentate, usually defined by ochreous on 

 outer side, bent outwards below costa and incurved below vein 4 ; 

 subterminal line represented by a series of small ochreous marks 

 developed into a spot at tornus, defined by fuscous on inner side, 

 angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle. Hind wing 

 semihyaline whitish, the veins and marginal areas fuscous brown; 

 cilia whitish at tips ; the underside with the costal and inner areas 

 brown irrorated with grey, a small discoidal spot and sinuous 

 postmedial line. 



JIah. Jamaica, Cinchona (Kaye), 1 J , 1 2 ; Mexico, Jalapa 

 (Trujillo), 1 <S , Coatepec (Brooks)^ 1 $; Costa Rica, Rio Sucio 

 (lioyers), 1 $ , Candalaria Mt-s. ( Underwood), 1 5 , Godman-Salvin 



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