CAPLARIS. EROCHA. 



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with series of white lunules before it. Hind wing yellowish white; 

 a large fuscous discoidal lunule ; a pale red terminal baud from 

 apex to vein 1, shading to brown on its inner edge which is 

 irregularly waved, with oblique black spot on it at submedian fold 

 where it is angled outwards to termen and small black spot at 

 vein 1 ; a fine deep red terminal line ; cilia white. Underside 

 pale yellow ; fore wing with the orbicular and reniform brown, 

 the apical area suffused with red ; hind wing with large dark 

 discoidal lunule and faint reddish terminal band. 



Hah. Bahamas, Nassau (Sir G. Carter), 2 $ type. Exp. 36-40 

 millim. 



Genus EROCHA. 



Type. 



Krocha, Wlk. ii. 318 (1864) mummia. 



Leiosoma, Feld. Reis. Nov. p. 6 (1875), non descr. nee Steph. 



Col .1831 leucotelus. 



Leonides, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. ii. p. 328 (1896) leuootelus. 



Proboscis fully developed; palpi porreot to just beyond frons, the 2nd joint 

 moderately fringed with hair, the 3rd short ; frons with rounded prominence 

 with truncate conical process at centre with raised edges and corneous plate 

 below it; eyes large, round; antennae of male typically bipectinate with 

 moderate branches, the apex serrate ; thorax clothed with hair and scales 

 mixed and without crests; tibiaj moderately fringed with hair ; abdomen with 

 dorsal hairy crest at base only. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen 

 evenly curved and not crenulate; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 

 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form theareole; 11 from 

 cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from middle 

 of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near 

 base only. 



Sect. I. Antenna" of male bipectinate with moderate brandies to apex- 



4871. Erocha dolens. 



Heterocampa dolens, Druce, A. M. N. H. (7) xiii. p. 248 (1904). 



J . Head and thorax clothed with white, black, and chocolate-red 

 hairs and a few scales, the metathorax with band of white hair ; 



Fig. 192. — Erocha dolens, J. 



the tibia? fringed with white hair ; abdomen black, the extremity 

 yellow, the mctathoracic crest blue-black. Fore wing white thickly 



