. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. ERIOPYGA. 333 16 K). Eriopyga mesostrigata, n. sp. (Plate LXXXVII. fig. 24.) Bryobota aqnafa, Druce, Biol. , Het. i. p. 287 (part.), nee Feld. Head and tegulae ochreous or rufous mixed with some black, palpi and frons black-brown, the tegulae with dark line near tips; thorax dark red-brown ; tarsi with pale rings ; abdomen fuscous brown, the anal tufts ochreous. Fore wing reddish brown suffused with purplish fuscous : the subbasal line double, waved, from costa to submedial fold, the antemedial line double, waved,
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. ERIOPYGA. 333 16 K). Eriopyga mesostrigata, n. sp. (Plate LXXXVII. fig. 24.) Bryobota aqnafa, Druce, Biol. , Het. i. p. 287 (part.), nee Feld. Head and tegulae ochreous or rufous mixed with some black, palpi and frons black-brown, the tegulae with dark line near tips; thorax dark red-brown ; tarsi with pale rings ; abdomen fuscous brown, the anal tufts ochreous. Fore wing reddish brown suffused with purplish fuscous : the subbasal line double, waved, from costa to submedial fold, the antemedial line double, waved, dentate inwards on subcostal and median nervures, on submedian fold and on vein 1 ; the medial costal area pale rufous with dark streaks on the veins; the orbicular and reuiform small with slight ochreous annuli, the former round, the latter with its upper extremity pro- duced ; an indistinct waved medial line bent inwards to costa; postmedial line double, slightly bent outwards below costa, incurved at discal fold, incurved and dentate below vein 4, some short black streaks interrupted by pale points beyond it on the veins and in submedian fold and some pale points on costa ; subterminal line represented by a series of small brown spots with small dentate black marks or short streaks on their inner sides and some scales or slight streaks beyond them ; a terminal series of small black lunules. Hind wing fuscous brown with an ochreous tinge ; cilia ochreous with a brown line through them; the underside ochreous whitish, the costal area irrorated and suffused with brown, a slight discoidal spot and curved postmedial line. Hah. Guatemala, Cerro Zunil, 4000' {Chamjnon), 1 S type; Panama, Chiriqui (Champion), 1 cT , - 9 • ^'^y. 34-36 millim. 1617. Eriopyga cynica. Orthodes cynica, Guen. Noct. i. p. 375 (1852); Smitli, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 198. Orthodek nimia, Guen. Noct. i. p. 376 (1852). Orthodes candens, Guen. Noct. i. p. 376 (1852). Orfhosia tecta, Wlk. xxxiii. 714 (1865). H
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