. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. '32(i NOCTUiDJi;. tinged with fuscous at sides ; pectus reddish ; legs grey-brown, the spurs whitish at sides; abdomen dorsally fuscous, the lateral tufts pinkish, the anal tuft and ventral surface ochreous. Fore wing greenish ochreous, with slight dark irroration on costal, inner, and terminal areas ; a subbasal black point in cell and slight ante- medial points on median nervure and vein 1; a postmedial series of. points excurved from costa to vein 6, then incurved ; traces of a similar subterminal series almost obsolete ex
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. '32(i NOCTUiDJi;. tinged with fuscous at sides ; pectus reddish ; legs grey-brown, the spurs whitish at sides; abdomen dorsally fuscous, the lateral tufts pinkish, the anal tuft and ventral surface ochreous. Fore wing greenish ochreous, with slight dark irroration on costal, inner, and terminal areas ; a subbasal black point in cell and slight ante- medial points on median nervure and vein 1; a postmedial series of. points excurved from costa to vein 6, then incurved ; traces of a similar subterminal series almost obsolete except towards costa. Hind wing ochreous white, tinged with brown on costal and terminal areas ; the underside with slight brown irroration on costal area, a small discoidal spot. Hab. Brazil, Rio Janeiro, 1 c? type. ). 36 millim. 6^. {Hypotrix). Fore wing of male on underside with the cell not clothed with downturned hair, a'. Fore wing with black spots on inner side of subterminal line melanosticia. b"^. Fore wing without black spots on inner side of subterminal line, a*. Fore wing with the orbicular and reniform filled in with black and connected at lower extremities imrpiiri(jera. i'. Fore wing with the orbicular and reniform not connected, the former not filled in with black, the latter in lower pai-t only nigripars. 1606. Eriopyga melaiiosticta, n, sp. (Hate LXXXYII. fig. 18.) cf . Head and thorax pale purplish brown ; abdomen fuscous mixed with ochreous, the anal tufts ochreous mixed with purplish, the tufts on coxae and abdomen purple. Fore wing purplish brown irrorated with fuscous ; an indistinct dark subbasal line from costa to submedian fold; antemedial line indistinct, double, curved; claviform and orbicular obsolete ; reniform defined by a few white scales on a diffused red-brown patch; medial shade excurved from costa to submedian fold, where it is angled inwards; postmedial line double, the lines well separated, the inner minutely waved, excurved from c
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