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shields black, the cervical shield with the posterior third orange. — 

 H. G. D. 



1560. Eriopyga melanopis, n. sp. (Plate LXXXVI. fig. 31.) 



Head and thorax browish grey mixed with dark brown ; abdomen 

 ochreous white tinged with brown. Fore wing brownish grey 

 thickly irrorated with fuscous ; subbasal line indistinct, double, 

 from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line indistinct, defined 

 by whitish on inner side, oblique from costa to submedian fold ; 

 claviform absent ; orbicular and reniform large, blackish with white 

 annuli, the former somewhat oblique elliptical, the latter slightly 

 angled inwards on median nervure ; postmedial line defined by 

 whitish on outer side and with a series of short black streaks on 

 the veins beyond it, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, 

 then incurved, some white points beyond it on costa ; subterminal 

 line whitish, slightly defined by fuscous on inner side, somewhat 

 angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a terminal 

 series of black points ; a fine white line at base of cilia. Hind 

 wing white ; the veins and terminal area suffused with brown, in 

 female nearly iiniformly suffused with brown ; the underside with 

 the costal and terminal areas irrorated with brown ; a black discoidal 

 spot and slight curved postmedial line. 



Hah. U.S.A., Arizona {Kunze), 4 c? , 1 2 , type. Exp. 30 millim. 



Subsp. 1. Fore wing with the ante- and postmedial lines less 

 distinct, the latter very minutely dentate ; the stigmata less pro- 

 minently filled in with black. 



Hah. U.S.A., S.W. Colorado {Oslar), 1 <5 , 1 $ . 



1561. Eriopyga orobia. (Plate LXXXYL fig. 32.) 



Mamestra orobia, Harv. Can. Ent. viii. p. 154 (1876) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. 

 N. Am. p. 203. 



c? . Head and thorax mottled white, reddish brown, and dark 

 brown ; abdomen brown irrorated with white and dorsally tinged 

 with olive-yellow. Fore wing olive-brown irrorated with white ; 

 subbasal line white, from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line 

 white, slightly defined on each side by brown, oblique, waved, in- 

 curved in cell and angled inwards on vein 1 ; orbicular and reniform 

 defined by white, the former round, the latter rather constricted at 

 middle ; postmedial line white, slightly defined by brown on inner 

 side and produced to a series of short dark streaks on the veins, 

 interrupted by a series of white points, some white points beyond 

 it on costa ; subterminal line white, minutely waved, somewhat 

 incurved below vein 3 ; a terminal series of slight points. Hind 

 wing white irrorated with brown, the veins and terminal area 

 brown ; the underside white irrorated with brown, a dark discoidal 

 spot. 



Hah. U.S.A., Texas, 1 J type. Exjy. 30 millim. 



