. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Supplement. Moths. ERIOPTGA. 309 oblique and slightly incurved below vein 4; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing rufous, uniformly suffused with fuscous, the cilia pale red. Undersidctpurplish pink irrorated with fuscous, fore wing with some fuscous on disk ; both wings with slight discoidal spots, somewhat waved postmedial line, and terminal series of points. Ab. 1. Fore wing with the veins whitish, the striation much thicker and more prominent. Ab. 2. Fore wing with the lines hardly traceable. Hah. CoREA, Gensan {Leech), 1
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Supplement. Moths. ERIOPTGA. 309 oblique and slightly incurved below vein 4; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing rufous, uniformly suffused with fuscous, the cilia pale red. Undersidctpurplish pink irrorated with fuscous, fore wing with some fuscous on disk ; both wings with slight discoidal spots, somewhat waved postmedial line, and terminal series of points. Ab. 1. Fore wing with the veins whitish, the striation much thicker and more prominent. Ab. 2. Fore wing with the lines hardly traceable. Hah. CoREA, Gensan {Leech), 1 c? , 1 § , type ; C. China, Chang- yang {Pratt), 1 S, 4 $, Washan {Pratt), 1 $, Chia-kou-ho {Pratt), 1 5 . Ex_p. 50-60 millim. b. Fore and hiud wings of male on underside with the rough hair extending to near termen ; palpi with the urd joint rather long; abdomen witii lateral tufts of long pink hair from base. 1579. Eriopyga rhodotrichia, n. sp. ($. Head and thorax rufous, the hairs and scales tipped with grey; palpi blackish at sides ; abdomen fuscous brown, the anal tuft ochreous, the fringes of hair on legs and abdomen and the ventral surface of latter pink. Fore wing rufous tinged with pink. Fig. 67.—Eriopyga rhodotrichia, J. \. and irrorated with black; traces of a waved subbasal line from costa to submedian fold, angled outwards on median nervure ; an indistinct oblique waved antemedial line; orbicular and reniform indistinctly defined by brown, rounded ; an indistinct oblique medial shade from cell to inner margin; postmedial line very indistinct, highly dentate and produced to points on the veins, bent, outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; sub- terminal line only defined by a dark shade on its inner side, slightly angled outwards at vein 7, then oblique. Hind wing ochreous suffused with fuscous brown; the underside ochreous with the hair fulvous, a small black discoidal spot and sinuous postmedial line. Hah. Brazil, Rio Janeiro, 1 cJ type. Exji.
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