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SCT. VI. Antennse of male simple and ciliated. 



A. Fore wing with the termen distinctly angled at vein 4. 



a. Mid tibia of male and 1st joint of tarsi with tufts of long hair ; hind 

 femora with fringe of long blackish hair, the tibise moderately fringed 

 with long hair. 



3432. Eriopus natalensis, n. sp. 



cJ . Head and thorax red-brown mixed -with ochreous white ; 

 anteanaj ringed with black; tegulae with black spots at base and 

 middle ; tarsi black ringed with white, the fringe of hair from hind 

 femora blackish ; abdomen rufous dorsally irrorated with black at 

 middle, the crests black, the anal tuft blackish above. Fore wing 

 yellowish white, mostlj' anftiised with rufous and irrorated with 

 black, the veins slightly streaked with whitish; subbasal line 

 whitish, waved, from costa to subraediaii fold, with an oblique 

 whitish striga beyond it across the cell ; antemedial line black 

 defined on each side by white, angled outwards below costa, then 

 strongly excurved and bent inwards to inner margin, an oblique 

 pale striga before it from submedian fold to vein 1 ; orbicular with 

 black centre and whitish annulus defined by black, very small and 

 oblique elliptical ; reniform whitish defined at sides by black and 



Fig. 135. — Erioims natalensis, c?. \. 



with slight black line near inner edge, oblique, pointed below and 

 with white striga defined on outer side by black beyond lower angle 

 of cell, a blackish patch before it extending to costa ; an oblique 

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

 line double, black filled in with yellowish white, angled inwards 

 below costa, then bent outwards, oblique to vein 4, then inwardly 

 oblique to submedian fold, a slight whitish line bej'ond it and some 

 white striae from costa; subterminal line indistinct, whitish defined 

 on inner side by a triangular black patch on costa, then by slight 

 blackish lunules, a black point beyond it below costa on a large 

 apical white patch extending to vein 4 where the line is angled 

 outwards to termen, then incurved and represented by sliglit 

 whitish lunules ; a terminal series of black-brown spots defined 

 on inner side by white lunules ; cilia black-brown with a fine white 

 line at base. Hind wing reddish-brown with slight discoidal bar 

 and brown terminal line ; cilia ochreous white with a brown line 

 through them ; the underside white irrorated with brown, a slight 



