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NOCTUIDiE. 



Genus EUPANYCHIS. 



Type. 



Eupanychis, Grote, EcTised Check-List, p. 34 (1890), non desci-.... spinoscB. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi porrect to well beyond frons, the 2nd 

 joint clothed with long hair, the 3rd short ; irons with small rounded 

 prominence with cxiryed corneous plate below it ; antennaj of )uale ciliated ; fore 

 tibire short and broad, with one curved claw and one spine on inner side, and 

 one claw and two spines on outer ; mid and hind tibifo spined. Fore wing 

 with veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 

 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 

 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from 

 upper angle. 



A. Hind wing white, with black discoidal spot and terminal 



band spinosts. 



B. Hind wi)ig yellow, the terminal area tinged with rufous ... mexicana. 



C. Hind wing pale reddish, deepening to coppei'-red at termen. crenilinea. 



149. Eupanychis spinosse. 



Hdiothis spmosce, Guen, Noct. ii. p. 182, pi. ix. f. 10 (1852) ; Smith, Cat. 



Noct. N. Am. p. 281. 

 Anthoecia kirtella, Grote &. Rob. Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. vi. p. 19, pi. iii. f. 3 



(1866). 



(^ . Head and thorax white mixed with rufous ; tarsi banded 

 with brown ; abdomen white, dorsally tinged with fuscous and 

 with rufous towards extremity. Fore wing white, irrorated and 

 suffused with pale olive-brown ; the antemedial line white, angled 

 outwards at median nervure, then obliquely curved and with a 

 diffused rufous band on its inner edge ; the reniform defined at 



Fig. 30. — EujKinychis spinosce, (^ . ]. 



sides with black, and with some rufous above it on costa ; the post- 

 medial line white, excurved from costa to vein 3, then strongly 

 incurved, and with a rufous band between it and the indistinct 

 whitish subterminal line which is slightly angled outwards at vein 6 

 and excurved below middle ; a terminal series of black points. 

 Hind wing yellowish white ; the base and inner margin blackish ; 

 a large, very prominent black discoidal spot, a broad terminal black 

 band with its inner edge angled outwards at discal fold, then 

 incurved; a slight pale subterminal mark below vein 3 ; cilia white 



