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5 . Head, thorax, and fore wing deep purplish red-brown. 



Hal). Er. Honduras, Belize; Guatemala, Pantaleou {Charnpion), 

 1 (S type, {llodri(juez) 1 $ , Godman-Salvin Coll. ; Paraguay, 

 Sapucay {Foster), "l $ . Exp. 44 millim. 



E. Legs of male normal. 



a. Thorax of male with tuft of very lar^o curled scales on dorsum ; 

 abdomen with hiteral and anal fringes of very long Imir ; fore wing 

 with fringe of hair fnnn basal fourth of costa, the cell and area below 

 it clothed with long downturned scales from base to beyond middle 

 and to below cell. 



1587. Eriopyga macrolepia. 



^cesia ma\'<ta, Druce, Biol. Ceutr.-Am., Het. i. p. 200, pi. 26. f. 12 

 (nee Wik.). 



J. Bright ferruginous red; head and tegulge rather darker; 

 the largo scales on thorax pinkish ; the fringes of hair on abdomen 

 redder. Fore wing with black and whitish point at base ; sub- 

 basal line double, waved, from costa to submcdian fold, filled in with 



Fig. li.—Eriopiiga macrolepia, <^ . 



yellowish ; antemedial line double, waved, filled in with yellowish, 

 the veins beyond it irrorated with black and whitish, especially 

 towards inner margin ; orbicular small, whitish, indistinct; reniform 

 ill-defined, with black point on its inner upper side and its lower 

 part filled in with black ; a waved medial line excurved at middle ; 

 postmedial line indistinct, defined by yellowish on outer side, dentate 

 and produced to black and white points on the veins, bent outwards 

 below costa, incurved at discal fold, incurved to near medial line 

 below vein 4, some pale points beyond it on costa ; the area beyond 

 end of cell pinkish ; subterminal line represented by a series of 

 black and white dentate marks angled outwards at vein 7 and 

 excurved at middle ; a terminal series of small black lunules. 

 Hind wing rufoua suffused with fuscous except towards inner 

 margin ; the underside with black discoidal point, postmedial line 

 on costal half, and sonic terminal points. 



Hah. CosT.v HiCA, Kio Sucio {Rogers), 1 6 type, Godman-Salvin 

 Coll. Exp. 50 millim. 



