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NOCTCIDiE. 



c. Thorax of male without tufts of scales on pectus. 

 a\ Abdomen of male thickly clothed with woolly hair. 



a^. Hind wing of male with the inner margin fringed with 

 very long hair. 



*1599. Ei'iopyga brachia. 



Eriopyga brachia, de Joan. ined. 



S . Head and thorax red-brown mixed with grey ; abdomen 

 grey tinged with rufous, the extremity ferruginous. Fore wing 

 grey suffused with rufous and sparsely irrorated with large black 

 scales ; subbasal lino indistinct, pale slightly delincd by brown, 

 waved from costa to submedian fold, with a small black spot beyond 

 it in cell; antemedial line Avhitish defined by fuscous on each 

 side, waved ; orbicular and reuiform large, with brown centres and 

 blackish anuuli defined by whitish, the former rather diamond- 

 shaped, touching at middle the latter which is elliptical ; post- 

 medial lino blackish, defined by whitish on outer side, slightly 



Fig. 75. — Eriojoyga hrachia, S. \. 



bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then strongly 

 incurved, a series of black points beyond it on the veins ; sub- 

 terminal line yellowish, defined on each side by red-brown, very 

 slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and incurved at submedian fold ; 

 a terminal series of black points. Hind wing fuscous brown, pale 

 towards base and inner margin ; the underside pale, the costal and 

 terminal areas irrorated with brown, a black discoidal lunule and 

 curved punctiform postmedial line. 



Eah. Beazil, New Fribourg, Organ Mts. (GonnellS), type t in 

 Coll, de Joannis. Exjp. 26 millim. 



b"^. Hind wing of male with the inner margin normal. 

 a^. Fore wing with the cilia non-crenulate. 



«■'. Fore wing with the postmedial line double, sinuous 



and strongly excurved beyond cell rhadata. 



6*. Fore wing with the postmedial line single, 



minutely dentate and slightly curved crista. 



*1600. Eriopyga rhadata. 



Mamestra rhadata, Druce, A. M. N. H. (6) xiii. p. 360 (1894); id. Biol. 

 Centr.-Am., Het. ii. p. 47G, pi. 93. f. 12. 



2 . Head and thorax very dark brown with slight grey 

 irroration ; abdomen fuscous brown. Fore wing dark olive-brown 

 suffused with silvery purple ; subbasal line double, waved, from 



