550 Noc'ftJiD.T;. 



Larva. Swainson, J. N.Y. Ent, Soc. viii. p. 33. 



Dark velvety dark brown with pale cream-coloured subdorsal 

 line; head reddish brown 5 the young larva is soft, green with a 

 white lateral line ; cocoon among leaves. Food-plant : Fern. 



3415. Eriopus trinitensis, n. sp, (Plate CXXI. fig. 4.) 



$ . Head and thorax chocolate red-brown ; tegulse with ochreous 

 medial line ; pectus ochreous ; abdomen fuscouu brown with slight 

 ochreous segmental lines, the crests, anal tuft and ventral surface 

 rufous. Fore wing ochreous almost entirely suffused with chocolate 

 red-brown, the apical area slightly irrorated with whitish ; subbasal 

 line ochreous defined on outer side by red-brown, slightly bent out- 

 wards at subcostal nervure and ending at vein 1 ; antemedial line 

 brown defined by ochreous on inner side, slightly excurved below 

 costa and cell, a minute brown spot before it above vein 1 ; orbicular 

 and reniform with whitish annuli defined at sides by brown, the 

 former oblique elliptical, the latter oblique, narrow, constricted at 

 middle, its inner edge straight, a truncate conical deep chocolate 

 patch between them from costa ; a faint oblique brown line from 

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

 on outer side by ochreous, bent outwards below cosfa, excurved to 

 vein 4, then incurved and outwardly oblique below submedian fold ; 

 subterminal line ochreous slightly defined on each side by brown, 

 angled inwards at discal fold and incurved below vein 2, with an 

 oblique ochreous streak from it at discal fold to termen at vein 4 ; 

 the termen chocolate defined on inner side by a white line from 

 below apex to vein 4, with triangular spots with white striae on them 

 below veins 4 and 3, and a wedge-shaped mark with a white line 

 on its inner edge below 2 ; cilia chocolate-red. Hind wing red- 

 brown with slight dark brown spots on termen ; cilia white tinged 

 with rufous ; the underside whitish, the costal area suffused with 

 rufous, a dark discoidal spot, minutely crenulate postmedial line, and 

 some small lunules on termen from apex to vein 5. 



Hah. TKiNi]>An (Kai/e), 1 5 type. Kvi). 30 millim. 



Sect. IV. AutennEe of male with the basal part of shaft slightly thickened, and 

 without angular projection, downcurved at middle. 



A. {Bhoptrotrichia). Antennse of male with scale-teeth in 



curve at middle, with long cilia from them and a tuft 



of four long curved hairs from uppei'side ; the tibia, 



spurs, and 1st joint oK tarsi fringed with long hair. 



«. Fore wing with the orbicular round with rufous 



centre ; the reniform large, silvery white with rufous 



centre arg yrosticta, 



h. Fore wingwith the orbicular narrow oblique V-shaped ; 

 the reniform oblique with white striga beyond lower 

 extremity ma'iUardi, 



