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ochreons, the costal and terminal areas suffused with rufous and 

 slightly irrorated with brown ; a slight discoidal lunula and sinuous 

 postmedial line. 



Hub. Brazil, Petropolis {Doer), 1 S , Rio Janeiro, 1 J , 1 2 . 

 E.v2^. 28-32 millim. 



1547. Proteinania vigasia. 



Ckloridea vigasia, Schaus, Trans. Am. Eat. Soc. xxi. p. 239 (1894). 



c? . Head and thorax ochreous tinged with rufous and irrorated 

 with black ; abdomen ochreous white tinged with brown. Fore 

 wing ochreous tinged with rufous and irrorated with black ; an 

 indistinct, straight, oblique ochreous subbasal line ; a more distinct 

 similar antemedial line with the elliptical brownish defined by 

 ochreous orbicular stigma on its outer edge ; reniform elliptical, 

 brownish defined by ochreous, with an oblique brownish band from 



Fig. 62. — Profeinania vigaaia, cf. \. 



it to inner margin ; the postmedial line represented by a series of 

 black points on the veins, excurved below costa, then oblique ; the 

 subterminal line ochreous, slightly sinuous and defined by red- 

 brown on its inner side ; a terminal series of black points ; cilia 

 ochreous brown and black. Hind wing pale yellowish, the cilia 

 slightly tinged with rufous. 



Hah. Mexico, Las Vigas, 1 J , type t (5 in Coll. Schaus. Exp. 

 28 millim. 



Genus EEIOPYGA. 



Type. 



Eriopyga, Guen. Noct. i. p. 203 (1852) ftmctula. 



Hypotrix, Gruen. IS'opt. i. p. 369 (1852) purpurigera. 



N(Bsia., Wlk. xt. 1741 (1858) moista. 



Himella. Grote, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phil. 1874, p. 200 intractata. 



Pseudorthodes, Morr. Can. Ent. vi. p. 253 (1874) vecors. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi with the 2nd joint obliquely upturned, 

 moderately fringed with hair in front, the 3rd moderate or rather long, porrect, 

 frons smooth ; eyes large, rounded ; thorax clothed with hair and scales mixed, 

 without distinct crests ; abdomen without crests. Fore wing rather broad, 

 the termen erect, rounded ; 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 shortly stalked ; 8 anastomosing with the cell to one-third. 



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