. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 332 :. d^. Abdomen of male with large downeurved tufts of hair at extremity meeting ventrally ; fore wing on underside with fringe of long hair on eosta from base to beyond middle, the cell and area just beyond it clothed with long down- curved hair ; the costa slightly lobed at base ; hind wing clothed with rough hair to middle. 1615. Eriopyga lobata, n. sp. Bryohota agnata, Druce, Biol. , Het. i. p. 287 (part.), nee Feld. Head and thorax purplish brown, the scales slightly tipped with grey ; pectus most


. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 332 :. d^. Abdomen of male with large downeurved tufts of hair at extremity meeting ventrally ; fore wing on underside with fringe of long hair on eosta from base to beyond middle, the cell and area just beyond it clothed with long down- curved hair ; the costa slightly lobed at base ; hind wing clothed with rough hair to middle. 1615. Eriopyga lobata, n. sp. Bryohota agnata, Druce, Biol. , Het. i. p. 287 (part.), nee Feld. Head and thorax purplish brown, the scales slightly tipped with grey ; pectus mostly clothed with ochreous hair ; legs banded with black ; abdomen fuscous, the tufts on claspcrs of male ochreous whitish. Fore wing yellowish brown suffused with fuscous; a slight pale subbasal line from costa to submedian fold; antemedial line double, filled in with ochreous, angled outwards below^ costa, then oblique and slightly waved; orbicular and reniform with reddish centres and whitish annuli, the former small, oblique elliptical, the latter with some fuscous in its lower part and angled inwards on median nervure ; an indistinct waved medial line ; post- medial line double, filled in with ochreous, bent outwards below. Fig. 81.—Eriopyga lohata, (^ costa, somewhat incurved at discal fold, then oblique and minutely dentate, a series of short black streaks interrupted by grey points on the veins beyond it and some pale points on costa ; subterminal line pale reddish, defined by fuscous on inner side, slightly angled outwards at vein 7, then oblique ; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing brown with an ochreous tinge ; the cilia pale with a brown line through them; the underside pale, the costal and terminal areas irrorated with brown, a discoidal point and curved postmedial line. Hah. Costa Rica, Irazu, 6000' {Rogers), 1 c?, 1 5 , typcGodmau- Salvin Coll. Exp. 34 millim. e^. Abdomen of male with the claspers and anal tuft very long. d^. Fore wing of male on unde


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