532 NOCTUID^. 



the termen creniilate, excised to vein 4 where it is more or less angled, then 

 oblique, a scale-tooth at tornus ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from 

 upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. 

 Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from below middle of 

 discocelliilars ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base 

 only. 



Sect. I. Antennae of male serrate and fasciculate with small tuft of hair on 

 iipperside at one third of shaft, then contorted and with three spinous 

 bristles ; the tibice and 1st joint of tarsi fringed with long hair. 



3397. Eriopus jamaicensis. 



Eriopus jamaicensis, Moschl. Abb. Senck. Ges. xiv. p. 52, f. 24 (1886). 



Head and thorax olive-green mixed with some white scales ; 

 palpi rufous, tegulse with slight white medial line ; tibiae red-brown 

 ringed with white ; abdomen pale olive-green with whitish seg- 

 mental lines, the crests blackish. Fore wing olive-green suffused 

 and irrorated in parts with black, the costal area and inner part of 

 medial area j^ellowish, the veins with yellowish streaks ; snbbasal 

 line represented by white striae defined on each side by black from 

 costa and cell, with an oblique white striga beyond it across the 

 cell ; antemedial line white defined on inner side by black and on 

 outer slightly by brown, angled outwards below costa, oblique to 



Fig. 113. — Eriopus ja/iiaicenms, cT. v. 



vein 1, then bent inwards to inner margin, an oblique white striga 

 defined on each side by black before it from submedian fold to 

 vein 1 ; claviform represented by a slight oblique blackish striga ; 

 orbicular with olive centre and white annulus defined on outer side 

 by black, oblique elliptical ; reniform white defined by black except 

 above and with olive lunule in centre, its lower extremity much 

 produced ; medial line blackish, oblique from costa to median 

 nervure, then dentate - postmedial line double, black filled in with 

 yellowish and with white at costa and inner margin, angled in- 

 wards below costa, then bent outwards, then minutely waved and 

 incurved below vein 4, some white points beyond it on costa; sub- 

 terminal line white defined on inner side by black patches and 

 below vein 3 by small lunules, with obliquely placed spots above 

 veins 7, 6, angled inwards above vein 5, then outwards to termen 

 at vein 4, then obsolescent, lunulate and incurved ; a terminal series 

 of black striae' defined on inner side by a fine white line reduced to 

 strisB below vein 4 ; cilia yellowish at base, blackish at tips. Hind 

 winjr whitish tinged with red-brown, the terminal area suffused 



