'32(i NOCTUiDJi;. 



tinged with fuscous at sides ; pectus reddish ; legs grey-brown, the 

 spurs whitish at sides; abdomen dorsally fuscous, the lateral tufts 

 pinkish, the anal tuft and ventral surface ochreous. Fore wing 

 greenish ochreous, with slight dark irroration on costal, inner, and 

 terminal areas ; a subbasal black point in cell and slight ante- 

 medial points on median nervure and vein 1 ; a postmedial series of 



points excurved from costa to vein 6, then incurved ; traces of a 

 similar subterminal series almost obsolete except towards costa. 

 Hind wing ochreous white, tinged with brown on costal and 

 terminal areas ; the underside with slight brown irroration on 

 costal area, a small discoidal spot. 



Hab. Brazil, Rio Janeiro, 1 c? type. E.vj). 36 millim. 



6^. {Hypotrix). Fore wing of male on underside with 

 the cell not clothed with downturned hair, 

 a'. Fore wing with black spots on inner side of 



subterminal line melanosticia. 



b"^. Fore wing without black spots on inner side of 

 subterminal line, 

 a*. Fore wing with the orbicular and reniform 

 filled in with black and connected at lower 



extremities imrpiiri(jera. 



i'. Fore wing with the orbicular and reniform 

 not connected, the former not filled in with 

 black, the latter in lower pai-t only nigripars. 



1606. Eriopyga melaiiosticta, n, sp. (Hate LXXXYII. fig. 18.) 



cf . Head and thorax pale purplish brown ; abdomen fuscous 

 mixed with ochreous, the anal tufts ochreous mixed with purplish, 

 the tufts on coxae and abdomen purple. Fore wing purplish brown 

 irrorated with fuscous ; an indistinct dark subbasal line from costa 

 to submedian fold ; antemedial line indistinct, double, curved ; 

 claviform and orbicular obsolete ; reniform defined by a few white 

 scales on a diffused red-brown patch ; medial shade excurved 

 from costa to submedian fold, where it is angled inwards ; 

 postmedial line double, the lines well separated, the inner 

 minutely waved, excurved from costa to vein 4, then oblique ; 

 subterminal line fine, whitish, defined on inner side by small 

 dentate black marks from below costa to vein 3, with more pro- 

 minent spots above and below vein 5, slightly angled outwards at 

 vein 7 ; termen crenulate, with a fine pale line at base of cilia. 

 Hind wing yellowish white ; the veins and marginal areas suffused 



