ERiorvGA. 333 



1616. Eriopyga mesostrigata, n- sp. (Plate LXXXVII. fig. 24.) 



Bryohota aqnata, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Amer., Het. i. p. 287 (part.), nee 

 Feld. , 



Head and tegulae ochreous or rufous mixed with some black, 

 palpi and frons black-brown, the teguloe with dark line near tips ; 

 thorax dark red-brown ; tarsi with pale rings ; abdomen fuscous 

 brown, the anal tufts ochreous. Fore wing reddish brown suffused 

 with purplish fuscous ; the subbasal line double, waved, from costa 

 to submedial ibid, the antemedial line double, waved, dentate 

 inwards on subcostal and median nervures, on submediau fold aud 

 on vein 1 : the medial costal area pale rufous with dark streaks on 

 the veins; the orbicular and reniforra small with slight ochreous 

 annuli, the former round, the latter with its upper extremity pro- 

 duced ; an indistinct waved medial line bent inwards to costa ; 

 postmedial line double, slightly bent outwards below costa, incurved 

 at discal fold, incurved aud dentate below vein 4, some short black 

 streaks interrupted by pale points beyond it on the veins and in 

 submedian fold and some pale points on costa ; subterminal line 

 represented by a series of small brown spots with small dentate 

 black marks or short streaks on their inner sides and some scales 

 or slight streaks beyond them ; a terminal series of small black 

 lunules. Hind wing fuscous brown with an ochreous tinge ; cilia 

 ochreous with a brown line through them ; the underside ochreous 

 whitish, the costal area irrorated and suffused with brown, a slight 

 discoidal spot and curved postmedial line. 



Hah. Guatemala, Cerro Zunil, 4000' i^Gliamjnon), 1 S type; 

 Panama, Chiriqui {Chaminon\ 1 (5,2 $ • Exp. 34-36 millim. 



1617. Eriopyga cynica. 



Orthodes cynica, Guen. Noct. i. p. 375 (1852); Smith. Cat. Noct. N. Am. 



p, 198. 

 Orthodes nimia, Guen. Noct. i. p. 376 (1852). 

 Orthodes candens, Guen. Noct. i. p. 376 (1852). 

 Orthosia tecta, Wlk. xxxiii. 714 (1865). 



ilead and thorax fuscous brown ; neck with an ochreous tinge ; 



Fig. 82. — Eriopyga cynica, S ■ \- 



tarsi with pale rings ; abdomen ochreous suffused with fuscous 

 except anal tuft. Fore wing fuscous brown more or less strongly 

 tinged with purplish ; subbasal line blackish, from costa to sub- 

 median fold ; antemedial line black, defined by grey on inner side, 

 oblique, waved ; orbicular and reniform large, slightly defined by 



