EKIOPTGA. 



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fuscous. Underside of both wings purplish pink irrorated with 

 fuscous ; a postmedial line oblique on fore wing, excurved below 

 costa on hind wing and not reaching inner margin. 



Fig. iio.— Eriopyga tiirea, (^ . \. 



Ab. 1. turceTla. Smaller and paler. 



Hab. Britain, Leech Coll.; France, Sand Coll.; Germany, 

 Zeller, Frey, and Leech Colls. ; X. Italy ; Sweden ; Armenia ; 

 Mongolia, Urga ; E. Siberia, Amur, 1 S ■, Dahuria, Ussuri ; Japan, 

 Hakodate, 1 J , Oiwake {Pryer), 2 c? , Kiushiu, 1 2 ? Yokohama 

 (Jonas, Naries), 3 J , 2 $ , type limbata ; Corea, Gensau (Zeef/r, 

 Ito\ 2 c? ; C. China, Kiukiang (Pratt), 1 $ , Changyaug (Pratt), 

 2 c? , 1 2 , Omei-shan, 1 c? . Exp. 44-54 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. GS ; Barrett, Lep. Brit. v. p. 179, pi. 206. 

 fig. 1. 



Ochreous yellow freckled with dark grey and purplish, anteriorly 

 suffused with purplish ; dorsal and subdorsal lines pale ochreous, 

 the latter dark-edged ; a dorsal series of dark grey marks ; head 

 brown. Food-plant : grasses. 8-5. 



b^. Hind tibite of male with the fringes of hair much less 

 developed. 

 a-. Fore wing with the antemedial line angled outwards 



below costa, then erect grandis. 



b-. Fore wing wath the antemedial line oblique throughout, divergens. 

 C-. Fore wing with the antemedial line evenly curved curvuta. 



1576. Eriopyga grandis. 



Mythimna grandis, Butl. A. M. N. H. (5) i. p. 79 (1878) ; id. 111. Het. 

 B. M. ii. p. 22, pi. 28. f. 7. 



Head and thorax bright rufous to olive-ochreous irrorated with 

 fuscous ; antennae whitish ; abdomen rufous. Fore wing rufous or 

 ochreous, more or less thickly striated with fuscous ; an indistinct 

 waved antemedial line obliijue from costa to middle of cell ; reni- 

 form represented by a whitish discoidal lunule, slightly defined by 

 fuscous and somewhat angled inwards on median nervure : post- 

 medial line oblique, slightly incui'ved to costa, somewhat dentate 

 and produced to short streaks on the veins, angled outwards on 

 vein 1 ; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing purplish 

 pink, the discal area suffused with fuscous ; the underside paler, 



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