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and fore legs iu front blackish ; mid and hind tibiae with black spots 

 at extremity ; abdomen ochrcous, dorsally tinged with fuscous 

 except at extremity. Fore wing ochreous, suifused with rufous and 

 sparsely irrorated with black ; subbasal line blackish, waved, from 

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

 orbicular a small ill-defined blackish spot ; reuiform with its upper 

 part very ill-defined, yellowish, its lower part fuscous with two 

 white points on its outer edge ; traces of a medial shade, oblique 

 from costa to lower angle of cell ; postmedial line indistinct, dentate 

 and produced to points on the veins, bent outwards below costa and 

 incurved at discal and submedian folds; traces of a subterminal 

 yellow line with some black points on it in the interspaces, angled 

 outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle, the veins beyond it with 

 diffused fuscous streaks ; cilia fuscous, yellowish at base. Hind 

 wing ochreous white tinged with fuscous, the cilia ochreous ; the 

 underside ochreous, the costal area irrorated with fuscous, a discoidal 

 point and curved postmedial punctiform line. 



Ab. 1. desnuda : browner. — Ecuador. 



Hah. EcTJADOR, type t desnuda in Coll. Doguin ; Brazil, Rio 

 Janeiro, 3 S • Exp. 42 milHm. 



1G12. Eriopyga monilis. 



Hddena monilis, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 102 (1852). 



Majnestra dotata, Driicc, Eiol. Centr.-Amer., Het. i. p. 273, pi. 26. f. I 



(1889). 

 Mamestra trocas, Seluius, J. N. Y. Ent. Soc. vi. p. Ill (1898). 



Head and thorax rufous ; tarsi ringed with white ; abdomen 

 ochreous, dorsally tinged with fuscous. Fore wing rufous with a 

 purplish tinge ; traces of a waved subbasal line from costa to sub- 

 median fold ; an irregular antemedial line bent inwards in cell and 

 angled inwards on vein 1 ; orbicular small, round, incompletely 

 defined by black and with two white points on its upper edge ; 

 reniform constricted at middle, with ochreous centre irrorated with 

 black and white annulus incompletely defined by black ; a diffused 

 fuscous medial waved Hue oblique from costa to median nervure, 

 where it is angled ; postmedial line formed by a series of rather ill- 

 defined black lunules, bent outwards below costa, slightly incurved 

 at discal fold, incurved below vein 4, a series of black points beyond 

 it on the veins and some white points on the costa ; subterminal 

 line represented by a series of black spots with white points on 

 them and a larger spot above tornus, angled outwards at vein 7 and 

 slightly excurved at middle ; a fine whitish line at base of cilia. 

 Hind wing whitish, the veins and marginal areas tinged with brown 

 or wholly brown ; cilia pale yellow ; the underside with the costal 

 area irrorated with brown. 



Ab. 1. trocas : rather browner and less I'ed. — Castro Pararia. 



Hah. Mexico, Jalapa (Schaus) ; Guatemala, Atitlan, Mercedes 

 (Chawjnon), 1 J, 1 $, type; Costa Rica (Underwood), 1 c? ; 



