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26. Genus: STeomanobla Dyar. 
Distinguished from the preceding by the tuftless abdomen and by the anterior tarsi exhibiting on the 
outside of the first joint a series of short thick spines. Only 1 species: 
N. thyodes Dyar (19 i). Porewing dark brownish-black with a red-brown reniform macula with a thyodes. 
loam-coloured yellowish distal margin, the other maculae almost extinct and with thick black dentate transverse 
lines, behind the posterior line a row of black dots on the veins; the black undulate line is rather distinct. Hind¬ 
wing brown, in the distal third blackish, with black veins and discal spot. Mexico (Zacualpan), in July. 
27. Genus : J*r©teiiiania Hmps. 
Separated from the following genus Eriopyga by a longer, porrect palpal joint and a loose tuft on the 
first abdominal ring. 
P. achatioides Gn. (= eros Wkr.) (19 h). Forewing olive-green mixed with pinkish red, with black, achatioides. 
irregularly dentate transverse lines, the cell filled up with black between the maculae, and black spots before 
the undulate line. Hindwing whitish, at the margin darkened. Brazil. 
P. vigasia Schs. (19 h) has ochreous-reddish forewings strewn with black, with rather straight yellow vigasia. 
transverse lines broadly bordered with brownish, the posterior line marked by black dots on the veins; the 
light undulate line proximally bordered with red-brown; the brownish maculae are in ochreous-yellowish 
rings. Hindwing light yellowish with reddish fringes. Described from Mexico. 
28. Genus: Eriopyga Gn. 
One of the most polytypical genera the representatives of which are almost exclusively distributed in 
America, where they occur from the northernmost districts down to Chile, representing the Noctuid type in a 
most complete way; many species occur in very great numbers. The proboscis is well developed, the last palpal 
joint mostly rather long, the frons smooth without projections, with large round eyes. The thorax is clad with 
scales mixed with hairs, without any more developed tufts, the abdomen being also tuftless. The distal margin 
of the moderately broad forewing is rounded, mostly entire, but it may also exhibit a slight dentation. In the 
veins there is no essential difference from the other genera, but the costal of the hindwing does not anastomose 
so closely at the base of the cell with the subcosta, but mostly at the first third of it. There are more than 
200 species known up to this day, the of which often exhibit very conspicuous secondary sexual marks 
in the shape of long hair-tufts on the body or legs, or long hairing on the under surface of the wings. 
Sect. I. G antennae doubly c o m bed: 
E. crocosticta Schs. (19 h). Eorewing purple brown, finely dusted with grey, with indistinct, single, crocosticta. 
undulate transverse lines, small, dark round maculae, the reniform macula distally with an elliptic orange-red 
spot, and a blackish-spotted undulate line. Hindwing yellowish blackish-brown with lighter fringes. Mexico. 
E. stictipenna Dyar has dark brown forewings with small white spots at the costal margin and the stictipennu. 
distal transverse line; the reniform macula consists of small white spots, the transverse lines otherwise little 
prominent, double, filled up with a lighter colour, the undulate line forming 2 bows; coniform macula and ring- 
macula roundish, encircled with black. Hindwing light with darker veins, margin and discal spot and white 
fringes. Expanse of wings: 25 mm. Mexico (Puebla). 
E. fea Drc. (19 h) has yellowish greyish-brown forewings with fine black, single, undulate transverse fea. 
lines and a strong median line; the large, round maculae are finely encircled with brown, the reniform macula 
exhibits distally a light yellow spot with yellowish or whitish dots above it and below it; undulate line yellowish- 
white, often divided into small spots. Hindwing blackish-brown. Mexico and Guatemala. 
E. mulina Schs. Forewing yellowish-brownish, tinted somewhat purple-reddish, with rather indistinct mulina. 
single transverse lines, the posterior line being dentate, blackish-pupilled, light-ringed maculae, the reniform 
macula strangulated and below filled up with black; the light undulate line is proximally bordered with brown. 
Hindwing whitish, tinted brown on the veins and margin, with light pinkish-reddish fringes. From Mexico. 
E. tersa Drc. (20 a) is on the forewing yellowish greyish-brown, strewn with whitish, with black tersa. 
transverse lines bordered with grey, behind the distal line black dots on the -veins; maculae small, ochreous- 
yellowish, the reniform macula below with 2 white dots; the undulate line consists of yellowish-white small 
spots proximally bordered with brown. Hindwing white, on the veins and margin yellowish-brown. Guatemala. 
