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with brown ; the cilia purplish red ; the underside with the 

 marginal ar^as irrorated with brown, a black discoidal spot and 

 curved postmedial line. ^, 



Hah. Brazil, 1 c? ; Paeaguay, Sapucay {Foster), 1 c? type. 

 Exp. 46 millim. 



1607. Eriopyga purpurigera. 



Hypotrix piirpurigera, Guen. Noct. i. p. 369 (1852). 



2 . Head and thorax grey mixed with dark brown, the tegulae 

 slightly tinged with purple ; palpi fuscous at sides ; abdomen 

 fuscous, the anal tuft ochreous. Fore wing grey-white, slightly 

 tinged with olive-brown and purplish and irrorated with black ; 

 subbasal line represented by a black striga from costa and point on 

 median nervure, with a short streak iu cell beyond it ; antemedial 

 line double, waved, excurved, ill-defiued ; orbicular and reniform 

 chocolate defined by black, the former elongate, oblique, pointed at 

 extremity and touching the latter, which is oblique, narrow, and 

 angled inwards on median nervure ; a dark medial shade oblique 



Fig. 79. — Eriopyga purpurigera, cT. \. 



from lower angle of cell to inner margin ; postmedial line repre- 

 sented by a spot at costa, then by a series of points, bent outwards 

 below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; subterminal line 

 commencing as an oblique black streak from apex, then double, 

 brown, excurved at middle ; a terminal series of black points. 

 Hind wing greyish, suffused with fuscous brown, especially towards 

 termen : cilia ochreous, with some fuscous towards apex ; the 

 underside yellowish white, the costal area irrorated with brown, 

 a small discoidal spot, sinuous postmedial line, and terminal series 

 of points. 



o . Head, thorax, and fore wing strongly suffused with purple- 

 red ; orbicular and reniform black, the former smaller and not 

 touching latter. 



Hab. Brazil, Castro Parana, 1 S . Exjp. 26-32 millim. Type f 

 in Coll. Oberthiir. 



1608. Eriopyga nigripars. (Plate LXXXVII. fig. 19.) 

 Himella nigripars, Schaus, J. N.Y. Ent. See. xi. p. 231 (1903). 



(5 . Head and thorax brownish ochreous, palpi blackish at sides, 

 metathorax with a vinous tinge ; abdomen fuscous, the lateral 



