. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. EKIOPYGA. 323 costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line double, oblique, waved; orbicular and reniform defined by olive-brown, the former small, round, the latter constricted at middle; an obscure medial shade angled at middle; postmedial line double, very slightly waved, oblique from costa to vein 6, incurved below vein 4; subterminal line waved, almost obsolete except towards costa, and with a rufous spot beyond it at tornus ; cilia tinged with rufous. Hind wing fuscous brown, with the lower part of cell and area below it w
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. EKIOPYGA. 323 costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line double, oblique, waved; orbicular and reniform defined by olive-brown, the former small, round, the latter constricted at middle; an obscure medial shade angled at middle; postmedial line double, very slightly waved, oblique from costa to vein 6, incurved below vein 4; subterminal line waved, almost obsolete except towards costa, and with a rufous spot beyond it at tornus ; cilia tinged with rufous. Hind wing fuscous brown, with the lower part of cell and area below it whitish ; cilia with fine white line at base and white tips; the underside with the costal area irrorated with grey, a black discoidal spot and sinuous postmedial line. Hah. Mexico, Coatepec, Orizaba. Exp. 50 millim. 1601. Eriopyga crista. Mamestra. crista, Wlk. ix. 235 (1856). Agrotis oropkila, Druce, Biol. , Het. i. p. 286 (nee Geyer). Agrotis obscurus, Dogn. Le Nat. 1889, p. 67. Mamestra infernalis, Schaus, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xxi. p. 227 (1894j; Druce, Biol. , Het. ii. p. 476, pi. 93. f. 11. Head and thorax fuscous brown, sometimes tinged with purplish or reddish, the hairs tipped with grey; tibiae ochreous at extremity; abdomen fuscous brown, with a greyish tiuge in male. Fore wing. Fig. 76.—Eriopgga crista, (^. |. silky purplish brown ; traces of a waved subbasal line from costa to submedian fold; an indistinct waved medial line often slightly defined by ochreous on inner side; orbicular and reniform with ochreous annuli slightly defined by black, the former minute or small; postmedial line dentate, usually defined by ochreous on outer side, bent outwards below costa and incurved below vein 4; subterminal line represented by a series of small ochreous marks developed into a spot at tornus, defined by fuscous on inner side, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle. Hind wing semihyaline whitish, the veins and marginal areas fuscous brown; ci
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