esmeralda. 
158 ERIOPUS. By W. Warren. 
green at middle; lines blackish filled in with green; the inner strongly excurved; orbicular and reni¬ 
form stigmata with green annuli partially defined by black scales; the former elliptical, touching inner 
line and reaching below cell; the reniform triangular, with a short green streak above it below costa; 
outer line lunulate dentate, the lunules white above inner margin, crossed by the green subcostal streak 
below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved, with some green beyond it in submedian interval; sub¬ 
terminal line indistinct, blackish, preceded by green scaling below costa and vein 4; some faint black 
terminal spots; hindwing whitish, tinged with redbrown; a darker cellspot and sinuous outer line angled 
outwards at middle. Recorded from Sikkim only. 
N. esmeralda spec. nov. (18 i). Forewing earth brown with a rufous grey tinge, suffused with dark 
fuscous in basal area and towards termen; veins in places finely pale; inner line brown, double, outcurved 
above and below vein 1, broadly edged with white above subcostal vein, more narrowly and interruptedly 
below, followed by a bright emerald green shade to vein 1, below it brown; median line blackish, oblique 
to vein 4 and outwardly dentate; then vertically incurved; the outer line similar, but more strongly 
oblique outwards and more deeply incurved, the two lines running close together below middle, incurved 
again below vein 1, and there marked by a green spot; orbicular and reniform large, slightly glossed 
and ringed with greenish; claviform stigma round, bright green, outlined with black; subterminal line 
formed of irregular green blotches, becoming terminal below vein 5, starting from a green spot above base 
of vein 7, followed there by first a white spot to costa and then some bluish scales; some dark ter¬ 
minal lunules, and white dots at vein ends; hindwing white, with a fuscous terminal border, broad at 
costa, narrowing to a point at anal angle, its inner edge diffuse; head, thorax, and dorsal crests dark brown; 
dorsum laterally pale. A small species, described from a single $ from Biagi, Mambare River, British 
New Guinea, 5000 feet. March 1906 (A. S. Meek). 
35. Genus: Eriopus Tr. 
Tongue well-developed; frons smooth; palpi upturned, the second segment fringed in front with 
long hair ending in a point, the third smooth, porrect; antennae of $ variable; thorax clothed with hair 
and scales, with spreading crests on prothorax and metathorax, and a double crest between on meso- 
tborax; legs with thick wisps of hair; dorsum with basal tufts; forewing with apex prominent; termen 
crenulate, angled at vein 4 and concave above; a tooth of hairlike scales projecting from inner margin 
before anal angle. — Larva (of the 3 species known) on ferns; the genus and many of the species widely 
spread. Type E. juventina Cram. 
According to the different structural modifications in the antennae of the <$, and the varying de¬ 
velopment of the tufts of hair on the legs, the genus is divided into many sections, to some of which 
subgeneric names have been applied. The following table embraces most of the Indo-oriental species. 
Sect. II. Antennae of <$ with shaft thickened towards base, and with a clawlike or simply 
protuberant projection on upper side. 
A. Antennae of $ with clawlike projection at % of shaft, clothed with hair in front and form¬ 
ing a hollow, followed by a tooth of scales on upperside; the tibiae, spurs, and tarsi with shaggy tufts 
of hair, scriptiplena Walk. 
B. Antennae of $ with clawlike projection at y 3 of shaft, clothed with hair in front and form¬ 
ing a hollow, followed by a short ridge of scales; the tibiae and tarsi with shaggy tufts of hair. 
prijeri Btlr. (Platydasys Btlr.) 
C. Antennae of with the projection at % of shaft, followed by short scale teeth; the tibiae 
and first segment of mid and hind tarsi fringed with long hair. 
b) The projection short, clawlike, tufted with hair, and followed by long curved bristles on 
upper and undersides of shaft, indica Btlr. 
c) The projection short, humped, without long bristles beyond it. albistriga Hmps., trilineata 
Walk., ferruginea Hmps. (Agabra Walk.). 
I). Antennae of with the projection at x / 3 of shaft, not followed by short scale teeth. 
a) The angular projection strong; the tibiae and 1st segment of tarsi with long hair tufts. 
a' Mid tibiae of with the spurs tufted with long hair. ( Cotanda Moore) placodoides Gum., quad- 
rinotata Walk. 
b' Mid tibiae of $ with the spurs not tufted with long hair. (Obana Walk.) pulchrilinea Walk. 
b) The angular projection slight. 
a' The projection followed by long bristles; fore and hind tibiae and 1 st segment of their tarsi 
fringed with long hair; mid tibiae, the inner spur, and nearly the Avhole of the tarsi with 
very large hair tufts, juventina Cram. ( Eriopus Tr.) 
b' The projection followed by ciliations; the tibiae, 1 st segment of tarsi, and inner spur of 
