. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. EKIOPTGA. 327 with brown; the cilia purplish red; the underside with the marginal areas irrorated with brown, a black discoidal spot and curved postmedial line. Hab. Bkazil, 1 c?; Pabaguat, Sapucay (Foster), 1 d type. Exp. 46 millim. 1607. Eriopyga purpurigera. Hypotrixpurpurigera, Guen. Noct. i. p. 369 (1852). $ . Head and thorax grey mixed with dark brown, the tegulae slightly tinged with purple; palpi fuscous at sides; abdomen fuscous, the anal tuft ochreous. Fore wing grey-white, slightly tinged with olive-brown and pur
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. EKIOPTGA. 327 with brown; the cilia purplish red; the underside with the marginal areas irrorated with brown, a black discoidal spot and curved postmedial line. Hab. Bkazil, 1 c?; Pabaguat, Sapucay (Foster), 1 d type. Exp. 46 millim. 1607. Eriopyga purpurigera. Hypotrixpurpurigera, Guen. Noct. i. p. 369 (1852). $ . Head and thorax grey mixed with dark brown, the tegulae slightly tinged with purple; palpi fuscous at sides; abdomen fuscous, the anal tuft ochreous. Fore wing grey-white, slightly tinged with olive-brown and purplish and irrorated with black ; subbasal line represented by a black striga from costa and point on median nervure, with a short streak in cell beyond it; antemedial line double, waved, excurved, ill-defined; orbicular and reniform chocolate defined by black, the former elongate, oblique, pointed at extremity and touching the latter, which is oblique, narrow, and angled inwards on median nervure; a dark medial shade oblique. Fig. 79.âEriopyga purptorigera, S â \- from lower angle of cell to inner margin ; postmedial lino repre- sented by a spot at costa, then by a series of points, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; subterminal line commencing as an oblique black streak from apex, then double, brown, excurved at middle; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing greyish, suffused with fuscous brown, especially towards termen; cilia ochreous, with some fuscous towards apex ; the underside yellowish white, the costal area irrorated with brown, a small discoidal spot, sinuous postmedial line, and terminal series of points. (S . Head, thorax, and fore wing strongly suffused with purple- red ; orbicular and reniform black, the former smaller and not touching latter. Hab. Brazil, Castro Parana, 1 6 . Exp. 26-32 millim. Type f in Coll. Oberthiir. 1608. Eriopyga nigripars. (Plate LXXXVII. fig. 19.) Himdla nigripars, Scliaus, J. Ent. Soc. xi. p.
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