HYPOMOLIS. — PYGAECTIA. 



415 



Skct. II. Antennas of male minutely serrate and ciliated. 



*1972. Hypomolis rul)ricosta. 



Thraqmatohia ruhricosta, Dognin, Lep. Loja, p. 51, pi. 4. f. 14 (1891); 

 Kirby, Cat. Het. pp. 246, 911. 



(S . Head and thorax brown ; palpi and slight marks on sides of 

 frons orange-red ; pectus and coxae ochreous and red : tibise and 

 tarsi brown ; abdomen ochreous. Fore wing ochreous, slightly 

 sufFused with brown ; the costal area tinged with purplish red, with 

 a small black antemedial spot, a larger medial spot, and a sinuous 

 postmedial line from costa to vein 6 ; the inner area tinged with 



Fig. 167. — Hypomolis ruhricosta, (^ . \. 



purplish, with some darker suffusion before middle and indistinct 

 medial and postmedial lines from submedian fold to inner margin. 

 Hind wing ochreous. 



2 . Fore wing redder, more uniformly suifused with brown ; 

 very indistinct antemedial, medial, and postmedial lines angled at 

 middle ; hind wing pale dull crimson. 



Hah. EcTJADOE, Loja, in Coll. Schaus. Exj).^ S 40, 2 42 millim. 



Genus PYGARCTIA. 

 Tygarctia, Grote, Can. Ent. iii. p. 124 (1871) 



Type. 



ahdominalis. 



Proboscis aborted, minute ; palpi porrect, extending to just beyond frons ; 

 antennae of male bipectinate with the branches short; ti bias with the spurs 

 short, fore tibiae with curved apical claw ; abdomen smoothly scaled. Fore 

 wing with vein 3 from close to angle of cell ; 4, 5 from angle ; 6 from upper 

 angle; 7, 8, 9 stalked; 10, 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from 

 angle of cell ; 5 from just above angle ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 from towards 

 end of cell. 



A. Fore wing with scarlet fascise on costa and inner margin... spragicei. 



B. Fore wing with orange fasciae on costa and inner margin, 



a. Abdomen scarlet vivida. 



b. Abdomen orange ahdominalis. 



C. Fore wing without fascige elegans. 



