ERIOrVGA. 



3U3 



1568. Eriopyga rufula. 



Bianfhoecia rufula, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Kat. Sci. ii. p. G4 (187-4); 

 Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 203. 



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

 abdomen grey-brown, the lateral and anal tufts tinged with 

 purplish. Fore wing purplish rufous sparsely irrorated with white ; 

 a slight white subbasal line from costa to submedian fold ; a some- 

 what oblique waved white antemedial line, sometimes with a 

 fuscous line on its outer edge : orbicular and reniform moderate, 

 defined by white, the former round, the latter with its lower part 

 filled in with fuscous ; postmedial line white, sometimes with a 



Fig. 64. — Eriopyga rufula, (S ■ \- 



fuscous line on inner edge, produced to a series of black and 

 white points on the veins, bent outwards below costa, somewhat 

 incurved at discal fold and strongly below vein 4; subterminal line 

 white, defined by deeper rufous on inner side, slightly angled out- 

 wards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a terminal series of dark 

 points. Hind wing Avhitish, the veins and terminal area suffused 

 with brown, almost wholly suffused in female ; the underside 

 whitish, the costal and terminal areas irrorated with brown, a 

 discoidal point and postmedial series of points on the veins. 



Hah. U.S.A., Colorado, California, 3 d" , 6 $ , type, ( Wcdsinc/Tiam) 

 1 d , 3 $ , S. Francisco (/. J. Walker), 1 $ . Exp. 30-3-4 millim. 



Larva. Head shining brown, darker reticulate, a dark A-mark 

 over clypeus. Body as in oviducta, but the posterior two-thirds of 

 cervical shield orange. — H. G. D. 



*1569. Eriopyga reliqua. (Plate LXXXIX. fig. 29.) 



T(eniocampa reliqua, Smith, Journ. N.Y. Ent. Soc. vii. p. 226 (1899); 

 Dyar, Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 166. 



5 . Ferruginous red-brown ; frons and metathoracic crest with 

 the scales tipped with grey ; abdomen pale. Fore wing with the 

 subbasal line defined by a few black scales, some black scales below 

 base of cell ; antemedial line double at costa and defined by some 

 white scales on inner side, excurved in interspaces ; claviform absent ; 

 orbicular and reniform rather large, pale and ill-defined, the former 

 elongate ; an ill-defined brown medial shade ; postmedial line dark, 

 defined by white scales on outer side, minutely dentate, bent outwards 



