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Coll. ; Venezuela ; EciJADOE. £"0,^.42-50 1111111113. Types f crista 

 ill Mus. Oxon., ohscurus in Coll. Dognin, infernalis in Coll. Schaus. 



P. Foi'e wing with the cilia crenulate. 



a*. Fore wing with ochreous points on subterminal 



line towards tornus mcesia. 



i'. Fore wiug with white points on subterminal 



line towards tornus niveiptmcia. 



c*. Fore wing without pale points on 'subteriiainal 



line above tornus Und'uji. 



1602. Eriopyga moesta. 



NcBsia mcesia, Wlk. xv. 1742 (1858). 



N<Esia dolens, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Ilet. i. p. 266, pi. 26. f. 13 (1889).' 



Agrotisfornax, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. ii. p. 483, pi. 94. f.7 (1898). 



Head and thorax red-brown ; metathoracic crest black-brown ; 

 tarsi banded with black ; abdomen fuscous brown tinged with 

 ochreous at extremity. Fore wing red-brown slightly irrorated 

 with fuscous ; a double, waved subbasal lino from costa to sub- 

 median fold ; a double, irregular autemcdial line, the two parts 

 wide apart, the outer angled outwards below costa, the inner 

 inwards ou vein 1 ; orbicular small, round, with black centre and 



Fig. 77. — Eriopyga moesta, (^ 



rufous annulus defined by black ; reniform rufous defined by black, 

 its centre defined by black and filled in with black above and 

 below, two white points on its lower edge near extremity ; medial 

 line strong, diffused, oblique from costa to lower angle of cell, then 

 erect ; postmedial line minutely dentate, double towards costa, 

 then with double series of black points on rufous streaks on the 

 veins beyond it ; the terminal area rather darker below vein 5 ; 

 a deep red subterminal line angled outwards at vein 7 and 

 excurved at middle, with an ochreous spot on it at tornus ; a 

 terminal series of small black lunules ; cilia rufous, with a fine 

 ochreous line at base. Hind wing dark brown ; the cilia ochreous, 

 with brown line through them ; the underside pale ochreous 

 irrorated with brown and the terminal area suflPused with brown, a 

 discoidal lunule and sinuous postmedial line. 



Hah. Mexico, Jalapa (TrifjiUo), 1 5 type fornax; Costa Rica, 

 Irazu (Rogers), 1 c? t5'pe dolens, Godman-Salvin Coll. ; Venezuela, 

 typet d in Mus. Oxon. Exp. 50 millim. 



