ERiopYGA. r;,")! 



slight dark shade on inner side, slightly angled outwards at vein 7 

 and excurved at middle ; a prominent terminal series of small 

 black spots. Hind wing pale ochreous suffused with brown ; cilia 

 wliitish ; the underside Avhitish irrorated with brown, a slight 

 discoidal lunule, curved postmedial line, and terminal series of dark 

 striae. 



Hah. U.S.A., Maine, 1 2 , New York, Albany {Meslce), 1 S , 

 1 2 ^yp6, Vermont. E.v^:). 24 millim. 



1645. Eriopyga oroba. 



Agrotis oroha, Dnice, Biol. Centr.-Aiii., Ilet. i. p. 285, pi. 27. f. 10 (1880). 

 Caradrma blandiija, Dogn, Aun. Soc. Ent. Beige, xli. p. 246 (1897). 



S . Head and thorax grey to red-brown mixed with grey ; palpi 

 black at sides, whitish at tips ; tarsi black-brown ; abdomen fuscous, 

 the anal tuft and ventral surface ochreous. Fore wing grey to 

 red-brown slightly irrorated with black ; subbasal black points on 

 costa and median nervure ; antemedial points on costa, median 

 nervure, and vein 1, or an oblique waved line ; claviform sometimes 

 represented by a small rufous spot ; reniform small, dark rod-brown 

 slightly defined by ochreous or whitish ; postmedial line indistinct, 

 black, dentate and produced to points on the veins, arising from a 

 small spot on costa, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, 

 then incurved ; subterminal line indistinct, ochreous or whitish, 

 angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle, defined by 

 fuscous suffusion on inner side and the area beyond it suffused with 

 fuscous ; a terminal series of black points ; cilia reddish with white 

 and black lines through them. Hind wing white ; the cilia 

 ochreous ; the underside of costal area irrorated with brown, a 

 small black discoidal spot and subterminal series of points towards 

 costa. 



$ . Abdomen with the anal tuft fuscous ; hind wing with the 

 veins, termen, and cilia rather more tinged with fuscous. 



The form hkmduja from Ecuador is rather redder than the tj'pical 

 Mexican form. 



Hah. Mexico, Guerrero (//. IT. Smith), 2 J , 1 $ , type Godman- 

 Salvin Coll.; Ecuador, JiOJa, 1 (S , 2 2 > J'j^vp. 3(5 millim. Type t 

 (S , 2 hlundvja in Coll. Dognin. 



*1G46. Eriopyga therinistis. (Plate XCIV. fig. 8.) 

 Eriopyga thermistis, Druce, incd. 



(S . Head and thorax pale rufous ; palpi black except at tips ; 

 abdomen ochreous, the extremity and ventral surface tinged witfi 

 rufous. Fore wing pale rufous, the terminal area suffused with dark 

 rufous ; antemedial line indistinct, waved, with black points on costa 

 and veins; orbicular and reniform small, very indistinctly defined, the 

 former round, tlie latter filled in with ratlier darker brown ; postmedial 

 line represented by a series of black points on the veins with traces 

 of a dentate line between them, sliglitly bent outwards below costa, 



