Larva. Kirby, Butt. & Moths Eur. p. 248; Hffmn. Eaup. p. 100, pi. 2S. 



Green with oblique yellow subdorsal stripes often strongly defined 

 by pink ; lateral line yellow often defined by pjnk below ; warts 

 slight, yellow ; stigmata black ; head reddish. Jii'ood-plajit : Pteris 

 aquilina. Q-Q, 



V^, {Hemipachycera). Antenua of male ciliated be- 

 yond the angular projection ; tibis, 1st joint <>t" 

 tarsi, and inner spur of mid tibi^ fringed with 

 Jong hair. 



«2. Fm-e wing with the orbicular oblique V-shaped. 



a^. Fore wing with orange apical patch xan fhopera. 



b^. Fore wing without orange apical patch. 



a*. Fore wing with the postmedial line nearly 



erect from below costa to vein 4 rivularis. 



i*. Fore wing with the postmedial line very 



oblique from below costa to vein 4 alholineola. 



b". Fore wing with the orbicular a minute annulus... cyclopis. 



3410, Eriopus xaiithopera, n, sp. (Plate CXXI, fig. 1.) 



Head black mixed with some rufous and white scales ; palpi 

 rufous ; tibiae rufous ia front ; abdomen grey-brown with slight 

 whitish segmental lines, the crests blackish, the anal tuft ochreous. 

 Fore wing black slightly mixed with grey, the veius with fine 

 ochreous streaks, some long rufous hair from base of inner margin; 

 subbasal line white, slightly angled outwards below costa and 

 ending at vein 1 ; antemedial line double, black filled in with 

 ochreous, defined on outer side by a white striga from costa and 

 slightly by grey below the cell, angled outwards below costa, then 

 excurved, an oblique yellow striga before it from submedian fold to 

 vein 1 ; orbicular with yellow annulus defined by black, oblique 

 V-shaped ; reniform with oblique white line on inner edge followed 

 by a black line, then yellowish defined on outer side by an oblique 

 white line and triangular spot at lower exti-emity ; postmedial line 

 double, black filled in with white, defined on outer side by a 

 yellowish band with slight dark line on it from vein 6 to inner 

 margin, slightly angled inwards below costa, then bent outwards, 

 very slightly angled outwards at vein 6, incurved below vein 4 and 

 slightly excurved at vein 1, some white points beyond it on costa ; 

 subterminal line white with an orange patch beyond it at apex 

 and orange mark at vein 4, angled outwards at vein 7, very slight 

 and angled inwards to postmedial line above vein 5, then form- 

 ing a strong oblique striga to vein 4 near termen, then incurved 

 and almost obsolete with white striga between veins 3 and 2 and 

 slightly excurved at vein 1 ; a series of white striae before termen ; 

 cilia blackish with a fine yellow line at base, wholly yellow at 

 tornus, the scale-tooth whitish. Hind wing dark reddish brown ; 

 a slight discoidal lunule ; cilia whitish with a brown line through 

 them ; the underside whitish thickly irrorated with brown, the 



VOX*, vij. 2 ?,' 



