. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Supplement. Moths. PROTEINANIA. ERIOPTGA. 291 ochreoiis, the costal and terminal areas suffused with rufous and sli^htl}- irrorated with brown ; a slight discoidal lunule and sinuous postmedial line. Hah. Brazil, Petropolis (Doer), 1 c?, Rio Janeiro, 1 (5, 1 2 . Exj^. 28-32 millim. 1547. Proteinania vigasia. Chloridea vigasia, Schaus, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xxi. p. 239 (1894). c^ . Head and thorax ochreous tinged with rufous and irrorated with black; abdomen ochreous white tinged with brown. Fore wing ochreous tinged with rufous and irr
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Supplement. Moths. PROTEINANIA. ERIOPTGA. 291 ochreoiis, the costal and terminal areas suffused with rufous and sli^htl}- irrorated with brown ; a slight discoidal lunule and sinuous postmedial line. Hah. Brazil, Petropolis (Doer), 1 c?, Rio Janeiro, 1 (5, 1 2 . Exj^. 28-32 millim. 1547. Proteinania vigasia. Chloridea vigasia, Schaus, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xxi. p. 239 (1894). c^ . Head and thorax ochreous tinged with rufous and irrorated with black; abdomen ochreous white tinged with brown. Fore wing ochreous tinged with rufous and irrorated with black ; an indistinct, straight, oblique ochreous subbasal line ; a more distinct similar antemedial line with the elliptical brownish defined by ochreous orbicular stigma on its outer edge; reniform eUiptical, brownish defined by ochreous, with an oblique brownish band from. Fig. 62.—Proteinania vigasia, (^. \. it to inner margin ; the postmedial line represented by a series of black points on the veins, excurved below costa, then oblique ; the subterminal line ochreous, slightly sinuous and defined by red- brown on its inner side ; a terminal series of black points ; cilia ochreous brown and black. Hind wing pale yellowish, the cilia slightly tinged with rufous. Hah. Mexico, Las Yigas, 1 6, type t d' in Coll. Schaus. Exp. 28 millim. Genus ERIOPYGA. Type. Eriopijga, Guen. Noct. i. p. 203 (1852) punctula. Hypoirix, Guen. Noct. i. p. 369 (1852) purpurigera. Nssia, Wlk. XV. 1741 (1858) mxsta. Himella. Grote, Proc. Ac. JSTat. Sci. Phil. 1874, p. 200 intractata. Pseudorthodes, Morr. Can. Ent. vi. p. 253 (1874) vecors. Proboscis fully developed; palpi with the 2nd joint obliquely upturned, moderately fringed with hair in front, the 3rd moderate or rather long, porrect, frons smooth ; eyes large, rounded ; thorax clothed with hair and scales mixed, without distinct crests ; abdomen without crests. Fore wing rather broad, the termen erect, rounded ; veins 3 and 5 from ne
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