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Coll, ; Venezuela ; Ecuador. Exjj. 42-50 vaiWim. Types fcristo 

 in Mus. Oxon,, obscurus in Coll. Dognin, infernalis in Coll. Schaus. 



P. Fore wing with the cilia crenulate. 



a*. Fore wing with ochreoiis points on subterminal 



line towards torniis mcesia. 



6'. Fore wing with white points on subterminal 



line towards tornus " niveifunda. 



c*. Fore wing without pale points ou subterminal 



line above tornus lindigi. 



1602. Eriopyga mcesta. 



Nasia mmsta, Wlk. xv. 1742 (1858). 



Fmia dolens, Druee, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 266, pi. 26. f. 13 (1889V' 



Agrotisfornax, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. ii. p. 483, pi. 94. f.7 (1898). 



Head and thorax red-brown ; metathoracic crest black-brown ; 

 tarsi banded with black ; abdomen fuscous brown tinged with 

 ochreous at extremity. Fore wing red-brown slightly irrorated 

 with fuscous ; a double, waved subbasal lino from costa to sub- 

 median fold ; a double, irregular antemedial line, the two parts 

 wide apart, the outer angled outwards below costa, the inner 

 inwards on vein 1 ; orbicular small, round, with black centre and 



Fig. 77. — Eriopyga mcesta, (S . \. 



rufous annulus defined by black ; reniform rufous defined by black, 

 its centre defined by black and filled in with black above and 

 below, two white points on its lower edge near extremity ; medial 

 line strong, diffused, oblique from costa to lower angle of cell, then 

 erect ; postmedial line minutely dentate, double towards costa, 

 then with double series of black points on rufous streaks on the 

 veins beyond it ; the terminal area rather darker below vein 5 ; 

 a deep red subterminal line angled outwards at vein 7 and 

 excurved at middle, with an ochreous spot on it at tornus : a 

 terminal series of small black lunules ; cilia rufous, with a fine 

 ochreous line at base. Hind wing dark brown ; the cilia ochreous, 

 with brown line through them ; the underside pale ochreous 

 irrorated with brown and the terminal area suffused with brown, a 

 discoidal lunule and sinuous postmedial line. 



Hah. Mexico, Jalapa (Trujillo), 1 $ type fornax ; Costa Eica, 

 Irazu (Rogers), 1 J type dolens, Godman-Salvin Coll. ; Yekezuela, 

 typet J in Mus. Oxon. Exj>. 50 millim. 



