204 Some apparently new Species and Forma of Noctuidae 



It is not impossible that this species, illustrata Graes., albovittata 

 Moore and fasciata Moore may be all races of one species, the forms 

 illustrata and albovittata meeting in W. China. 



13. Eriopus ludovici, sp. nov. 



? , 30 mm. 



Head, antennal shaft and segment 2 of palpus on inner side 

 ochreous ; segment 3 of palpus and segment 2 on outer side black and 

 white ; thorax above olive-green with a few white scales ; abdomen 

 above whitish with some ochreous scales, the basal hair pale olive-green; 

 abdomen below, pectus and legs whitish with some ochreous and olive- 

 green intermixed. 



Fore wing above pale olive-green mixed with ochreous and pink, 

 the lines white edged with black. Subbasal line distinct to fold, angled 

 outward behind costa and on M ; a white spot in cell and pale lunular 

 mark in fold between subbasal and antemedial lines ; antemedial line 

 bent inward behind SC, outwardly oblique to SM and bent inward to 

 hindmargin ; claviform faintly denned, rather small ; orbicular an oblique 

 V-shaped mark from the white costal bar of antemedial line, denned by 

 whitish except anteriorly ; reniform oblique, formed much as in the 

 common E. maillardi Gn., with a pink tinge at middle ; postmedial line 

 a series of black-edged pale lunules (white at costa and hind margin, 

 pink between SC 5 and fold), the proximal edging blacker than the 

 distal, from costa at middle, strongly bent outward and almost obsolete 

 on SC, oblique and slightly incurved from SC 4 to E 3 (where it forms a 

 distinct angle), inwardly oblique to fold and bent outward to hind margin, 

 followed by a broad pink distal band ; fold with three pink spots between 

 the antemedial and postmedial lines ; subterminal line broadly pale and 

 proximally edged by dark streaks on the veins on anterior third, then 

 narrowly pale and following the curves of the postmedial line; four 

 white spots on costa towards apex ; a large pale terminal spot on E 3 at 

 angle of termen ; a row of pale lunules between the veins at termen, 

 those behind E 3 and M 1 proximally black-edged ; fringe pale, tipped 

 with black at the veins. 



Hind wing ochreous-white, the distal half shading to reddish-grey ; 

 fringe almost white. 



Wings beneath whitish ; the fore wing thickly irrorated with pale 

 rufous except towards termen, with a diffused postmedial line ; hind 



