. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. ERIOPUS. ^OD wing dark brown with a reddish tinge ; cilia rufous, yellowish at tips; the underside greyish thickly irrorated with red-brown, the inner area suffused with brown, a black discoidal lumile, postmedial line benh outwards below costa, then crenulate, a diffused sub- terminal shade, a terminal series of small black lunnles from apex tu vein 2. Bab. PHRTT, S. Domingo {OcTcenden), type t 6 in Coll. Druce. Ex2}. 32 millim. D. Antennse of male without scale-teeth, serrations, or long cilia at middle. a. {
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. ERIOPUS. ^OD wing dark brown with a reddish tinge ; cilia rufous, yellowish at tips; the underside greyish thickly irrorated with red-brown, the inner area suffused with brown, a black discoidal lumile, postmedial line benh outwards below costa, then crenulate, a diffused sub- terminal shade, a terminal series of small black lunnles from apex tu vein 2. Bab. PHRTT, S. Domingo {OcTcenden), type t 6 in Coll. Druce. Ex2}. 32 millim. D. Antennse of male without scale-teeth, serrations, or long cilia at middle. a. {Hyperdasyf^'). Mid and hind tibise and 1st joint of tarsi of male with tufts of very lon^- hair. a^. Fore wing with the postmedial line distinct, double filled in with whitish. or. Fore wing with the reniform very oblique and slightly angled inwards on median nervure exotica. b'^. Fore wing with the reniform less oblique, its lower extremity very slightly hooked on outer side chqjiicans. i\ Fore wing with the postmedial line dark and obsolescent coelisigna. 3420. Eriopus exotica. Erio'p'us exotica, Guen. JVoct. ii. p. 294 (). Head and thorax rufous tinged with purplish pink and mixed with some blackish ; tarsi ringed with white ; abdomen brown with whitish segmental rings, the crests bright rufous, the anal tuft and Ventral surface pale rufous. Fore wing rufous tinged with purplish pink and suffused with black except on inner half of medial area ; the veins of terminal area with orange streaks ; subbasal line black defined by whitish on outer side, waved, from costa to vein 1 ; antemedial line double, black filled in with white and slightly defined. Fig. 127.—Eriopus exotica. J by whitish on outer side from submedian fold to inner margin, angled outwards below costa, tlien strongly excurved and bent in- wards to inner margin, with an oblique white striga before it from submedian fold to vein 1 with black patch below it; orbicular yel- lowish defined by black and with sli
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