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NOCTUIDJE. 



scmibyaline white, the veins and costal area oclircous tinged with 

 brown; the cilia ochrcous ; the underside with the costal area 

 ochreous irrorated with brown and with a slight postmedial line 

 on it. 



Hah. Brazil, Sjio Paulo, type t 5 in Coll. Schaus. Exp. 

 30 millim. 



*1637. Eriopyga marginalis. a'late LXXXVIII. fig. 4.) 



Himella onarginalis, Schaus, J. N.Y. Ent. Soc. xi. p. 233 (1903). 



5. Head and thorax red-brown mixed with ochreous and black; 

 tarsi banded with black ; abdomen fuscous broAvn, the ventral 

 surface ochreous irrorated with red and black. Pore wing reddish 

 brown suffused with dark brown, the basal area with some ochreous ; 

 a double, waved subbasal line from costa to submedian fold ; an ill- 

 defined double antemedial line oblique from costa to submedian fold, 

 then bent inwards to inner margin, angled inwards in cell ; traces 

 of a round orbicular with ochreous anuuliis ; reniforra indistinct, 

 figure-of-8-shape, with pale annulus with ochreous points on it, 

 incomplete below ; an indistinct waved line from lower angle of 

 cell to inner margin ; postmedial line double, dentate and i)roduced 

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

 costa and incurved below vein 4, some pale points beyond it on 

 costa ; a wedge-shaped black spot beyond it in discal fold indenting 

 an oblique white subtenainal band, which is tinged with olive 

 towards costa and inner margin and at middle, its outer edge 

 forming the subterminal line, which is incurved at middle and with 

 the area beyond it red-brown ; a terminal series of brown lunules 

 with some white irroration between them. Hind wing dark brown, 

 paler towards base ; cilia rufous, whitish at tips ; the underside 

 whitish thickly irrorated with dark brown, the terminal area 

 suffused with purplish pink, a black discoidal spot and sinuous 

 postmedial line. 



Hah. Brazil, Sao Paulo, type f $ in Coll. Schaus. Exp. 

 38 millim. 



d-. Fore wing of male on underside with tlio cell 

 not. clothed with long sparse downturned hair. 

 a^. Fore wing with the postmedial line excurved to 

 vein .5, then incurved. 

 a*. Hind wing pale, the terminal area more or 

 less suffused with brown. 



«3. Fore wing tinged with ochreous cdntrahens. 



fp. Fore wing tinged with purplish red conar. 



bK Hind wing nearly unif'ornjly suffused with 

 brown. 



«'^. Fore wing red-brown perhrunnen . 



/A Fore wing grej-brown /ii/jjosco/a. 



b^. Fore wing with the postmedial line excurved to 

 vein 4, then incurved. 

 a^. Hind wing pale at base, the terminal half 

 usually more or less suffused with brown, 

 especially in female. 



