548 NOCTUIDiE, 



striga bej'Oiid it across the cell ; antemedial line double, red-brown 

 filled in with white, angled outwards below costa, then curved, an 

 oblique white striga before it from submedian fold to vein 1 ; 

 orbicular with white annulus defined by brown, small, round ; reni- 

 form with its centre defined by brown, and with white annulus 

 except below and two white points at lower extremitj', its upper 

 extremity produced, slightly angled inwards on median nervure ; a 

 faint sinuous brown shade fi-om beyond lower angle of cell to inner 

 margin ; postmedial line double, brown filled in with white, angled 

 inwards below costa, then bent outwards, slightly angled inwards 

 in discal fold, oblique and sinuous below vein 4, some white points 

 beyond it on costa ; subterrainal line white defined on inner side by 

 dark marks from costa to vein 4, formed by oblique bars from costa 

 to vein 7 and between veins 7 and 6, then slight and angled inwards 

 in discal fold, then strong and angled outwards totermen at vein 4, 

 then formed of whitish lunules defined on each side by red-brown ; 

 a fine lunulate white line just before termen. Hind wing whitish 

 suffused with red-brown ; the underside whitish tinged with red- 

 brown, a slight diseoidal lunule, postmedial line bent outwards 

 below costa, then crenulate, and terminal series of slight lunules 

 from apex to vein 2. 



Hob. Tbobbiand Is., Kiriwini {MeeJc), 1 S type ; D'Enteecas- 

 lEATJX Is,, Fergusson I. {Meek), 1 § . Exp. S ^0, $ 36 millim. 



Sect. III. Antennae of male with the basal one-fifth thickened, then with large 

 • tufts of hair from upperside with some bristles beyond them, then 

 with sinus with bristles beyond it from upper and underside ; mid 

 and liind tibieeand the inner spurs fringed with long hairs on both 

 sides, the tarsi fringed with long hairs on upperside to near 

 extremity. 



A. Fore wing with the antemedial line very oblique from 



below reniform, the orbicular narrow oblique V-shaped. Jloridensis, 



B. Fore wing with the antemedial line erect below the cell, 



the orbicular oblique eUiptical trinitensis. 



3414. Eriopus floridensis. 



Eriopus floridensis, Guen. Noot. ii. p. 292 (1852); Smith, Cat. Noct. 



N. Am. p. 309. 

 Eriopus elegantiilus, Herr.-SehiifF. Corresp.-blatt. Zool. Min. Ver. Regens. 



1868. p. 117. 



5 . Head and thorax greyish tinged with rufous and mixed with 

 a few black scales ; palpi thickly irrorated with black ; frons 

 whitish with black bar above ; antennae with the extremity of basal 

 joint, the basal part of shaft above and below, and the shaft above 

 beyond the sinus black ; tegulae mostly black edged with grey, with 

 angled grey line near base and grey line at middle ; fore and mid 

 tarsi black at extremities ; abdomen ochreous tinged with fuscous, 

 the basal crests rufous, the crest on 3rd segment black. Fore wing 

 ochreous greyish tinged with rufous, the veins defined by slight 



