ERIOPTGA. 325 



1603, Eriopyga niveipuncta. (Plate LXXXVII. fig. 17.) 



Mamestra niveipuncta, Scbaus, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xxi. p. 228 (1894) ; 

 Driice, Biol. Oentr.-Am., Heft ii. p. 476. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen dark red-brown ; tarsi with pale 

 rings. Fore wing red-brown ; a waved subbasal line from costa 

 to submedian fold ; a waved antemedial line ; orbicular and 

 reniform very indistinctly defined by blackish, the former round, 

 the latter with dall fiery-red centre ; a medial shade bent inwards 

 to costa ; postmedial line minutely dentate and produced to pale 

 streaks on the veins, with two series of black points on them, 

 slightly bent outwards below costa, exeurved to vein 4, then 

 incurved, some ochreous points beyond it on costa ; subterminal 

 line represented by a series of small blackish spots and a white 

 spot near tornus, angled outwards at vein 7 and exeurved at 

 middle ; a fine white line at base of cilia. Hind wing dark 

 reddish brown, the interspaces of basal half pale ; cilia with fine 

 white line at base and pale tips ; the underside whitish, the costal 

 and terminal areas brown irrorated with ochreous, a discoidal 

 lunule and sinuous postmedial line. 



Bab. Mexico, Jalapa, type t d in Coll. Scbaus ; Panama, Chiriqui, 

 1 5 . Ex:j}, 44 millim. 



*1604. Eriopyga lindigi. 



Leucania lindigi, Feld. Eeis. Nov. pi. 109. f. 11 (1874). 



c^ . Head and thorax ochreous brown ; abdomen fuscous, the 

 anal tuft and ventral surface ochreous. Fore wing ochreous brown, 

 slightly irrorated with fuscous ; the veins of terminal area slightly 

 defined by fuscous and the interspaces streaked with fuscous ; 

 subbasal line represented by a black point in cell ; antemedial line 

 indistinct, waved, somewhat oblique, angled inwards on the veins, 

 where there are black points ; orbicular and reniform with fuscous 

 centres and surrounded by black points ; postmedial line dentate 

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

 costa, exeurved to vein 4, then incurved ; subterminal line repre- 

 sented by a series of short black streaks ; a terminal series of black 

 points. Hind wing fuscous ; the cilia ochreous, with a fuscous line 

 through them ; the underside greyish ochreous tinged with fuscous, 

 especially on the inner and terminal areas ; a discoidal spot and 

 sinuous postmedial line, with short blaclc streaks at the veins. 



Hah. Colombia, Bogota, type f 6 in Coll. Rothschild. Exi^. 

 53 millim. 



bK Abdomen of male with lateral fringes of long hair meeting 

 ou ventral surface. 

 a^. Fore wing of male on underside with the cell thickly 

 clothed with downturned bair. 



1605. Eriopyga subolivacea, n. sp. 

 S. Head and thorax pale greenish ochreous; palpi reddish, 



