. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. ERESSA. 115 Genus ERESSA. Type. Eressa, Wlk. i. 149 () confinis. CfenancJra, Feld. Sitz. Akad. Wien, Ixiii. p. 38 (1861) nacUoides. Ti'ianeura, Butl. Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. xii. p. 353 (187fi)... suhcLUrata. Chloromeles, Meyr. P. Lina. Soc. (2) i. p. 785 (1886) . geographica. Proboscis small or well developed ; palpi short and porrect; frons hairy ; mid and hind tibiic with small terminal pairs of spurs. Fore wing usually broad ; vein 3 from well before angle of cell; 4, 5 from angle ; 6 from below upper angle ; 7,
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. ERESSA. 115 Genus ERESSA. Type. Eressa, Wlk. i. 149 () confinis. CfenancJra, Feld. Sitz. Akad. Wien, Ixiii. p. 38 (1861) nacUoides. Ti'ianeura, Butl. Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. xii. p. 353 (187fi)... suhcLUrata. Chloromeles, Meyr. P. Lina. Soc. (2) i. p. 785 (1886) . geographica. Proboscis small or well developed ; palpi short and porrect; frons hairy ; mid and hind tibiic with small terminal pairs of spurs. Fore wing usually broad ; vein 3 from well before angle of cell; 4, 5 from angle ; 6 from below upper angle ; 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 stalked. Hind wing with vein 2 from well before angle of cell; 3, 5 well separated at origin ; 4 absent; 7 absent. Sect. I. Antennae of male bipectiuate ; frons without furrow. A. Hind wing of male with the inner area lobed and folded over on upper surface of wing. 208. Eressa furva, n. sp. S . Fulvous brown ; head orange ; abdomen with dorsal orange spots on medial segments, a lateral series and ventral bands. Fore wing with brownish hya- line spots below middle of cell, in end and below end of cell; a postmedial spot above vein 6 and two spots between veins 3 Y\g. 2,1.—Eressa furva, S- {- and 5. Hab. IS". Australia, Damraa Island (J". J. Walker), 1 J type. Exp, 30 millim. B. Hind wing of male with the inner area normal. a. Abdomen with dorsal and ventral series of livid spots nacUoides. b. Abdomen with dorsal and lateral series of orange- yellow spots. a^. Hind wing with large hyaline patch below base of cell. a^. Fore wing broad, with the elongate hyaline patch below vein 2 commencing below middle . of cell confinis. b-. Fore wing narrow, with the hyaline patch below the cell commencing near base of wing suhaurafa. b^. Hind wing with hyaline spots between veins 2 and 5 and in end of cell affin is. c. Abdomen with six orange bands. a^. Hind wing fuscous with the markings hyaline; a spot between veins 2 and 3 lutulcnta. b^. Hind wing black with the ma
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