. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Supplement. Moths. ERIOPTGA. 307 fuscous. Underside of both wiugs purplish pink irrorated with fuscous; a postmedial line oblique on fore wing, excurved below costa on hind wing and not reachincr inner margin. .^. Fig. (Jo.— Eriopi/ga turca, (^. {. Ab. 1. turceUa. Smaller and paler. Hab. Britain, Leech Coll.; France, Sand Coll.; Germany, Zeller, Frey, and Leech Colls.; X. Italy ; Sweden ; Armenia ; Mongolia, Urga ; E. Siberia, Amur, 1 (5 , Dahuria, Ussuri ; Japan, Hakodate, 1 J, Oiwake {Pryer), 2 c?, Kiushiu, 1 $ , Yokohama (Jonas, Ma
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Supplement. Moths. ERIOPTGA. 307 fuscous. Underside of both wiugs purplish pink irrorated with fuscous; a postmedial line oblique on fore wing, excurved below costa on hind wing and not reachincr inner margin. .^. Fig. (Jo.— Eriopi/ga turca, (^. {. Ab. 1. turceUa. Smaller and paler. Hab. Britain, Leech Coll.; France, Sand Coll.; Germany, Zeller, Frey, and Leech Colls.; X. Italy ; Sweden ; Armenia ; Mongolia, Urga ; E. Siberia, Amur, 1 (5 , Dahuria, Ussuri ; Japan, Hakodate, 1 J, Oiwake {Pryer), 2 c?, Kiushiu, 1 $ , Yokohama (Jonas, Maries), 3 J, 2 $ , type limbata; Corei, Gensau (Leec7i, Ito\ 2 c? ; C. China, Kiukiang (Pratt), 1 $ , Changyang (Pratt), 2 c? , 1 2 , Omei-shan, 1 J . Exji. 44-54 miUim. Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. G8; Barrett, Lep. Brit. v. p. 179, pi. 206. fig. 1. Ochreous yellow freckled with dark grey and purplish, anteriorly suffused with purplish; dorsal and subdorsal lines pale ochreous, the latter dark-edged ; a dorsal series of dark grey marks ; head brown. Food-plant: grasses. 8-5. b^. Hind tibia of male with the fringes of hair much developed. a-. Fore wing with the antemedial line angled outwards below costa, then erect grandis. b-. Fore wing with the antemedial line oblique throughout, divergens. C-. Fore wing with the antemedial line evenly curved curvata. 1576. Eriopyga grandis. Mythimna grandis, Butl. A. M. N. H. (5) i. p. 79 (1878); id. 111. Het, B. M. ii. p. 22, pi. 28. f. 7. Head and thorax bright rufous to olive-ochreous irrorated with fuscous ; antennae whitish ; abdomen rufous. Fore wing rufous or ochreous, more or less thickly striated with fuscous ; an indistinct waved antemedial line oblique from costa to middle of cell; reni- form represented by a whitish discoidal lunule, slightly defined by fuscous and somewhat angled inwards on median nervure : post- medial line oblique, slightly incurved to costa, somewhat dentate and produced to short streaks on the veins, a
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