568 



NOCTUID^E, 



lirown discoidal lunule, crenulate ^lostmedial line, indistinct diffused 

 subterminal shade, and terminal series of small lunules. 



Hab. Natal, Karkloof {Marshall), 1 (S tyjje. Exp. 32 millim. 



b. {E'liherrhicMa). Mid tibiee and 1st joint of tarsi in both sexes with large 

 tufts of scales and hair, the hind tibiseand 1st joint of tarsi moderately 

 fringed with hair ; abdomen with very' large crest on 3rd segment ; 

 male with a large medial ventral corneous hook on preanal segment 

 projecting backwards and covered with hair. 



3433. Eriopus moUissima. 



Eriopus moUisifima, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 294 (1852) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. 



N. Am. p. 308. 

 Erasiria rubicunda, Wlk. xii. 808 (1857). 



Head and thorax hriffht rufous mixed with some yellow and dark 

 hrown ; frons with the lower part white and with black lateral 

 bars ; tegulse whitish at tips ; abdomen whitish dorsally suffused 

 with fuscous leaving white segmental lines, the crests rufous and 

 dark brown, the anal tuft and ventral surface tinged with rufous. 

 Fore wing bright rufous suffused and irrorated with brown on 

 costal half of basal area, medial and terminal areas ; a slight whitish 

 mark at base ; subbasal line yellowish defined on inner side by 

 dark brown suffusion, waved, from costa to vein 1 ; antemedial line 



Fig. 136. — Eriopus moUissima, S- \- 



double, blackish filled in with rufous, excurved below cell and bent 

 inwards to inner margin, an oblique minutely waved black line 

 before it from submedian fold to inner margin ; claviform defined 

 by fjlack ; orbicular with black centre and whitish annulus defined 

 by black, some silver on its lower edge, round ; reniform with pale 

 rufous centre slightly defined by black and silvery white annulus 

 defined by black,, the annulus broad except on outer side where it 

 is reduced to points, the lower extremity rather produced; a slight 

 incurved dark line from lower angle of cell to inner margin ; post- 

 medial line double, the inner line strong, black, the outer slight, 

 bent outwards below costa, then minutely waved, slightly incurved 

 at discal fold and strongly below vein 4, angled outwards at vein 1, 

 some white points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line white 

 defined on inner side by somewhat dentate brown marks, angled 

 outwards to near termcn at veins 7, 6, inwards at discal fold, out- 

 wards to termen at veins 4, 3, then incurved and bent outwards to 

 tornus ; a fine black terminal line defined on inner side bv a fine 



