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NOCTUID^. 



0. Antennas of male with some long cilia from upperside at end of thickened 

 portion ; fore tibia and tarsal joints tufted witli hair aboTe ; mid tibiae 

 and tarsus to extremity with thick fringes of very long hair, the inner 

 spur very long and fringed with hair; hind femora with fringes of long 

 blackish hair, the tibiae, spurs, andjlst two tarsal joints above fringed 

 with long hair. 



*3419. Eriopus leucotoma. 

 Eriopusleucotoma, Druce, A. M. N. H. (8) i. p. 303 (1908). 



S . Head and thorax bright rufous ; tegulse with whitish medial 

 line ; pectus and legs pale rufous ; abdomen dark brown with slight 

 whitish segmental lines, the crests rufous, the anal tuft and ventral 

 surface pale rufous. Fore wing pale rufous irrorated and suffused 

 with deeper rufous, the veins with slight pale streaks ; subbasal 

 line represented by a curved Avhitish striga from costa and an 

 oblique line from subcostal nervure beyond it to vein 1, defined by 

 black on outer side in cell ; antemedial line whitish slightly defined 

 by rufous on outer side, nearly straight to vein 1 and bent inwards 

 to inner margin, a slight black mark before it below costa, round 

 brown spot in cell defined by whitish on inner side, and black bar 

 from submedian fold to vein 1; orbicular rufous with slight 



Fig. 126. — Eriojms leucotoma, (^ . 



whitish annulus, touching antemedial line, its outer edge slightly 

 concave ; median nervure streaked with white on medial area ; the 

 reniform rufous with whitish annulus, produced at upper extremity 

 and narrowing below to a white striga at lower angle of cell, a 

 blackish patch before it in cell ; an oblique rufous shade from 

 lower angle of cell to inner margin at antemedial line, some dark 

 brown suffusion from it to termen and a black striga beyond lower 

 angle of cell ; postmedial line double, rufous filled in with whitish, 

 bent outwards below costa, incurved at discal fold, oblique from 

 vein 4 to submedian fold, then sinuous, some whitish points beyond 

 it on costa; the apical area yellow irrorated with rufous extending 

 before the antemedial white line to vein 4 ; subterminal line 

 represented by a series of small red-brown lunules angled outwards 

 below vein 7 and at vein 4, then oblique ; a white line before 

 termen defined by black on outer side, angled inwards below vein 6 

 and outwards to termen at vein 4, then reduced to a series of striae ; 

 cilia yellowish at base, intersected with yellow at vein 4. Hind 



