298 NOCTUIDiE. 



below, and beyond cell ; cilia ochreous white with a brown line 

 through them ; the underside whitish, the costal and terminal areas 

 irroratcd with brown, a black discoidal spot and indistinct curved 

 postmedial line. 



Hub. Mexico, Jalapa {Hoege, Tmjillo), 5 S , 4 $ , type, Godman- 

 Salvin Coll., Las Vigas. Ex_p. 32 millim. 



1559. Eriopyga oviduca. 



Tteniocampa oviduca, Guen. Noct. i. p. 357 (1852) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. 



N. Am. p. 20b. 

 Tceniocampa capsella, Grote, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phil. xxvi. p. 201 (1874). 



Head and thorax purplish brown, the hairs tipped with grey ; 

 palpi blackish at sides ; abdomen brown mixed with grey. Fore 

 wing grey-brown with a purplish, reddish, or yellowish tinge and 

 irrorated with blackish ; subbasal line indistinct, whitish, waved, 

 from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line white, slightly 

 defined on each side by blackish, angled outwards below costa, in- 

 curved in cell, then nearly straight; orbicular and reniform moderate, 

 with brown centres and yellowish annuli, the former round or 

 oblique elli])tical ; the postmedial line blackish, defined by white on 



Fig. 63. — Eriu'pyga oviduca, (^ . \. 



outer side and produced to short black streaks on the veins inter- 

 rupted by white points, bent outwards below costa, excurved to 

 vein 4, then strongly incurved, some pale points beyond it on costa ; 

 subterminal line yellowish, defined by dark brown on inner side, 

 slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle; a ter- 

 minal series of black points. Hind wing fuscous brown, the inter- 

 spaces of basal and inner areas whitish ; cilia pale with a brown 

 line through them ; the underside whitish irrorated with brown, 

 the costal and terminal areas tinged with purple-brown, a discoidal 

 spot and indistinct curved postmcdian line. 



Hah. Canada {Norman), 1 ^ ■, Vancouver I. (,/. J. WaJTcer), 1 S \ 

 U.S.A., N. and E. States to Florida and Rocky Mts., Massachusetts, 

 Beverly, 1 (5 , 1 $ , New York (Packard), 5 c? , Trenton Falh 

 (Doubledaij), 2 c? , Evans Centre (Grote, Bailey), 1 c? , 1 § , Albany, 

 1 S type capseUa, Illinois, 2 $ . Exp. 26-30 millim. 



Larva. Head shining brown, a dark A-mark over clypeus. Body 

 sordid brown ; subdorsal space paler, defining a series of rounded 

 diamond-shaped dorsal marks; orange on joint 12. Tubercles and 



