540 



NOCTUID^. 



3405. Eriopus ferruginea, n. sj}. (Plate CXX. fig. 31.) 



2 . Head and tegiilse bright rufous ; thorax rufous mixed with 

 brown and whitish ; pectus whitish ; tarsi slightly ringed with 

 white ; abdomen whitish tinged with brown, the crests rufous. 

 Pore wing bright rufous, the inner margin and terminal area tinged 

 with violaceous grey ; subbasal line absent ; antemedial line brown 

 defined on each side by whitish, slightly angled outwards below 

 costa, then excurved and somewhat sinuous ; orbicular and reniform 

 with rufous centres and white annuli slightly defined by brown, 

 the Ibrmer very narrow and oblique, the latter oblique and pointed 

 at lower extremity ; postmedial line double, brown tilled in with 

 violaceous grey and defined by violaceous gre)' on outer side from 

 vein 4 to inner margin, bent outwards below costa and incurved 

 below vein 4, some white points beyond it on costa ; subterminal 

 line defined by deep rufous on inner side, white and slightly oblique 

 from costa to vein 6 and with oblique white streak between veins 

 5 and 4 ; the termen rufous with a faint pale waved line before it ; 

 cilia rufous with a fine whitish line at base. Hind wing whitish 

 sufl'used with red-brown ; cilia whitish ; the underside white tinged 

 and irrorated with rufous, a slight discoidal striga and indistinct 

 rather diffused postmedial line. 



Bab. QuEEifSLAND, Erisbane (Turner), 1 $ type. Exp. 34 millim. 



D. Autennffiof male without scale-teeth beyond the aoguhir 



projection. 



a. AiitcniiEe of male with the angular projection strong; 



the tibise and 1st joint of tarsi tufted with long hair. 



tti. {Cotanda). Mid tibisB of male with the spurs tufted 



with long hair. 



a". Fore wing with the orbicular nearly erect placodoides. 



b^. Fore wing witli oi-bieular very oblique, a dark 



triangular mark between it and i enilorm quadrinofcda. 



3406. Eriopus placodoides, 



Eriopus placodoides, Guen.Noct. ii. p. 296 (1852); Hampsn. Moths Ind.ii. 



p. 256. 

 Eriopus doleschalli, Feld. Reis. Nov. pi. 110. f. 14. (1874). 



Head and thorax red-brown ; antennae with the basal joint white 

 in front; tarsi ringed with white; abdomen greyish sufl'used with 

 red-brown and with slight whitish segmental rings. Eore wing red- 

 brown tinged with violaceous grey especially on terminal area; 

 subbasal line represented by a slight white striga from costa ; ante- 

 medial line double, brown filled in with violaceous grey, nearly 

 straight and erect to vein 1, bent inwards to inner margin ; orbicular 

 and reniform with violaceous-grey centres and whitish annuli dclined 

 at sides by brown lines, the former erect oblong, the latter oblique 

 oblong with its centre defined by brown lines ; an indistinct oblique 

 brown line from lower angle of cell to inner margin ; postmedial 

 line double filled in with violaceous grey and with white striga at 



