. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. EEIOPUS. 561 hlack spots. Fore wing whitish tinged with ochrcous and rufous and mostly suffused and irroratedwith black; subhasal line repre- sented by double oblique black striae from costa and cell, with an oblique pale striga beyoud them across the cell; antemedial line double, black filled in with yellowish white and defined by yellowish on outer side from cell to inner margin, very slightly angled out- wards below costa, then strongly excurved and with some blackish marks before it from cell to inner margi


. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. EEIOPUS. 561 hlack spots. Fore wing whitish tinged with ochrcous and rufous and mostly suffused and irroratedwith black; subhasal line repre- sented by double oblique black striae from costa and cell, with an oblique pale striga beyoud them across the cell; antemedial line double, black filled in with yellowish white and defined by yellowish on outer side from cell to inner margin, very slightly angled out- wards below costa, then strongly excurved and with some blackish marks before it from cell to inner margin ; orbicular with black centre and yellowish-white annulus, oblique V-shaped; reniform yellowish white, its centre defined by black on inner side, angled inwards on median nervure, its lower extremity produced and with brown mark in it, a black patch between them extending to costa; an excurved somewhat dentate blackish shade from loAver angle of cell to inner margin; postmedial line double, black filled in with white, angled inwards below costa, then bent outwards, oblique to. Fig. 130.—Eriopus yerburi, (^. vein 4, then strongly incurved and bent outwards to inner margin, some white points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line white with yellowish-white patch beyond it at apex, angled inwards to post- medial line above vein 5, then outwards to termen at vein 4, below which there is a small triangular black spot, then almost obsolete and defined by blackish sufi'usion on inner side, oblique to sub- median fold and bent outwards to tornus; a fine white line before termen, slightly sinuous below vein 4 ; cilia white with a black line through them, chequered with fuscous at tips. Hind wing whitish suffused with reddish brown; cilia white with a slight brown line through them from apex to vein 2 ; the underside yellowish white, the costal area irrorated with brown, a slight brown discoidal luuule, indistinct irregularly waved postmedial line, and terminal series of brown lunules


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