.144 noctuid.t:. 



1633. Eriopyga vecors. (Plate LXXXVIII. fig. 1.) 



Orthodea rccors, Guen. Noct. i. p. 376 (1852) ; Smitli, Cat. Noct. N. Am. 



p. 19',). 

 Orthodfis enervis, Guen. Noct. iii. p. 420 (1852). 

 Cerastis prodeiins, Wlk. x. 452 (1856). 

 Apamea togata, Wlk. xxxii. 672 (1865). 

 Celana velata, Wlk. Can. Nat. & Geol. v. p. 256 (1860). 

 Orthodesgriseocincta, Harv. Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. ii. p. 120 (1873). 

 Orthodes nitens, Grote, Papilio, lii. p. 31 (188-3). 



Head and thorax yellow or red-brown sometimes tinged with 

 purple ; abdomen ochreous irrorated with fuscous brown, the anal 

 tuft ochreous. Fore wing red-brown, more or less strongly suffused 

 with purplish and irrorated with white, chiefly on the veins ; an 

 indistinct waved subbasal line from costa to submedian fold ; ante- 

 medial line oblique, waved; claviforra and orbicular absent; 

 reniform a small pale reddish lunule defined by fuscous; post- 

 medial line indistinct, minutely waved, bent outwards below 

 costa, incurved at discal fold and more strongly below vein 4, 

 with a series of points beyond it on the veins and some pale 

 points ou costa; subterminal line indistinct yellowish, defined by 

 brown on inner side and b}^ black points at middle, angled out- 

 wards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; some slight dark points 

 on termen. Hind wing yellowish brown, the cilia pale with a 

 brown line through them ; the underside whitish irrorated with 

 brown, a discoidal lunule, sinuous postmedial line, and some dark 

 subterminal marks. 



Ab, 1. prodeuns. Fore wing with the reniform white. 



Ab. 2. Thorax and fore wing dark purplish brown. 



Ab. 3. griseocincta. Purplish brown ; fore wing with white 

 irroration, the lines prominently defined by white. 



Hah. Canada, Montreal (L?/??i«n), 1 (J, Nova Scotia {Ihdman), 

 1 c? , type jn-odeuns ; U.S.A., N.E. States, 1 (5,3$, type & type 

 griseocincta, Massachusetts, New York, Albany ( W. W. Hill), 1 § , 

 Columbia Distr., Wisconsin, Mississippi. Exp. 28-34 millim. 



1634. Eriopyga puerilis. (Plate LXXXVIII. fig. 2.) 



Mamestra puerilis, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. vSci. ii. p. 64 (1874) ; Smith, 

 Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 200. 



Head and thorax ochreous, more or less strongly tinged with 

 purplish red and sometimes with grey ; abdomen grey dorsally 

 tinged with fuscous, the anal tuft usually yelloAvish or reddish. 

 .Fore wing ochreous, more or less strongly sutt'used with purplish 

 red ; the veins with dark streaks and grey irroration ; an indistinct 

 waved subbasal line from costa to submedian fold ; an oblique 

 waved antemedial line ; orbicular absent or represented by a small 

 white spot with a black streak between it and reniform, which is 

 small, indistinct, pale or with its upper part filled in with white or 

 represented by a figure-of-8-shaped mark ; a diffused medial line 

 oblique from costa to lower angle of cell, where it is angled ; 

 postmedial line sinuous, bent outwards below costa, slightly 



