. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 324 NOCTU[!:. Coll.; Venezuela ; EciJADOE. £"0,^.42-50 1111111113. Types f crista ill Mus. Oxon., ohscurus in Coll. Dognin, infernalis in Coll. Schaus. P. Foi'e wing with the cilia crenulate. a*. Fore wing with ochreous points on subterminal line towards tornus mcesia. i'. Fore wiug with white points on subterminal line towards tornus niveiptmcia. c*. Fore wing without pale points on 'subteriiainal line above tornus Und'uji. 1602. Eriopyga moesta. NcBsia mcesia, Wlk. xv. 1742 (1858). N<Esia dolens, Druce, Biol. Cen
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 324 NOCTU[!:. Coll.; Venezuela ; EciJADOE. £"0,^.42-50 1111111113. Types f crista ill Mus. Oxon., ohscurus in Coll. Dognin, infernalis in Coll. Schaus. P. Foi'e wing with the cilia crenulate. a*. Fore wing with ochreous points on subterminal line towards tornus mcesia. i'. Fore wiug with white points on subterminal line towards tornus niveiptmcia. c*. Fore wing without pale points on 'subteriiainal line above tornus Und'uji. 1602. Eriopyga moesta. NcBsia mcesia, Wlk. xv. 1742 (1858). N<Esia dolens, Druce, Biol. , Ilet. i. p. 266, pi. 26. f. 13 (1889).' Agrotisfornax, Druce, Biol. , Het. ii. p. 483, pi. 94. (1898). Head and thorax red-brown ; metathoracic crest black-brown ; tarsi banded with black; abdomen fuscous brown tinged with ochreous at extremity. Fore wing red-brown slightly irrorated with fuscous ; a double, waved subbasal lino from costa to sub- median fold ; a double, irregular autemcdial line, the two parts wide apart, the outer angled outwards below costa, the inner inwards ou vein 1 ; orbicular small, round, with black centre and. Fig. 77.—Eriopyga moesta, (^ rufous annulus defined by black ; reniform rufous defined by black, its centre defined by black and filled in with black above and below, two white points on its lower edge near extremity; medial line strong, diffused, oblique from costa to lower angle of cell, then erect; postmedial line minutely dentate, double towards costa, then with double series of black points on rufous streaks on the veins beyond it; the terminal area rather darker below vein 5 ; a deep red subterminal line angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle, with an ochreous spot on it at tornus; a terminal series of small black lunules ; cilia rufous, with a fine ochreous line at base. Hind wing dark brown ; the cilia ochreous, with brown line through them; the underside pale ochreous irrorated with brown and the ter
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