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the basal tufts pale yellow. Fore wing chocolate with a purplish 

 tinge, except a triangular patch on disk which is deep chocolate ; 

 subbasal line vcM-y indistinct, pale, straight from costa to submediau 

 fcld ; antcmedial line defined by greyish on inner side, obliijue, 

 angled inwards in cell, then slightly sinuous ; reniform triangular, 

 chocolate M'ith fine grey annulus ; traces of a waved medial line 

 from cell to inner margin ; postmcdial line slightly defined by 

 greyish on outer side, oblique from costa to reniform, then bent 

 outwards, then erect and crenulate; two pale points on costa before 

 the subterminal line, which is greyish defined by small brown some- 

 what dentate marks on inner side, angled outwards at vein 7 and 



Fig. 73. — Eriopygalodebar, (^ . \. 



cxcurved at middle. Hind wing dark reddish brown, the cilia 

 paler. Underside of both wings yellowish white, the costal and 

 terminal areas of fore wing and the apex of hind wing purplish 

 red. 



2 . Greyer and less red-brown in colour ; fore wing with the 

 discal patch black-brown, the reniform dirty white ; the underside 

 yellowish irrorated and suffused with red-brown, the disk of fore 

 wing fuscous brown. 



Hab. CosTA Rica, Irazu, 6000' {Rogers), 1 ,5 , 1 $ , type, Godman- 

 Salvin Coll. Exp. S 44, $ 40 milli'm. 



1594. Eriopyga orbica, n. sp. (Plate LXXXVII. fig. 13.) 

 Orthodes lodebar, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Ain., Het. i. p. 289 (part.). 



. S . Head and teguhe yellowish mixed with rufous ; palpi blackish 

 at sides ; thorax purplish brown ; hair on pectus and legs pale 

 yellow ; abdomen fuscous brown, the anal tuft and ventral surface 

 yellowish tinged with rufous, the basal tufts pale yellow. Fore 

 wing deep purplish brown, the costal area to beyond middle and a 

 wedge-shaped patch on disk chocolate ; subbasal line represented 

 by a grey striga from costa ; antemedial line defined by greyish on 

 inner side, oblique, angled inwards in cell, then slightly sinuous ; 

 orbicular a grey point ; reniform a small round greyish spot with 

 brownish centre ; an indistinct waved medial line from cell to 

 inner margin ; postmcdial line defined by greyish on outer side, 

 oblique from costa to reniform, then bent outwards, crenulate and 

 incurved at submediau fold ; two pale points on costa before the 

 subterminal line, which is greyish, interrupted, defined on inner 



