. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. ERESSA. 121 blue-black bands and lateral series of spots, tbe extremity blue-black. Fore wing yellow hyaline ; the veins and margins narrowly black ; a discoidal band and apical patch. Hind wing yellow hyaline ; the veins black; a discoidal spot; a terminal black band, sometimes narrow, sometimes broad, from apex •pj„ 39 to vein 2 and dentate inwards Eressamultigutta, (^. \. below veins 3 and 2 ; vein 5 some- times from rather near 3. Hah. China ; Tibet ; Nepal (Harchvicke), type : Sikhim (Sadler), Moore Coll.; Bukma. Kvp. 25-3
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. ERESSA. 121 blue-black bands and lateral series of spots, tbe extremity blue-black. Fore wing yellow hyaline ; the veins and margins narrowly black ; a discoidal band and apical patch. Hind wing yellow hyaline ; the veins black; a discoidal spot; a terminal black band, sometimes narrow, sometimes broad, from apex •pj„ 39 to vein 2 and dentate inwards Eressamultigutta, (^. \. below veins 3 and 2 ; vein 5 some- times from rather near 3. Hah. China ; Tibet ; Nepal (Harchvicke), type : Sikhim (Sadler), Moore Coll.; Bukma. Kvp. 25-32 millim. Type blanchardi iu Mus. Paris. 224. Eressa lepcha. (Plate V. fig. 7.) Syntomis lepcha, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 12 (1879); Hmpsn. Moths Ind. i. p. 217 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 102. S . Head and thorax black; tegulae, patagia, and metathorax frino-ed with crimson, mesothorax with paired dorso-lateral blue streaks ; abdomen whitish, crimson towards apex below and with short dorsal bands and lateral series of blue-black spots ; wings hyaline white. Fore wing with the veins and margins black; a broad black discoidal band ; the termen excurved between veins 5 and 2 ; the terminal band extending from apex to vein 4 and sending a tooth inwards on vein 5. Hind wing with the veins and margins black, the terminal band rather narrow and ending on vein 2. 5 , Fore wing without the streak on vein 5. Hah. Sikhim (G. C. Dudgeon), 1 6- Exp. 24 millim. Type f 5 in Coll. Staudinger. 225. Eressa nigra. (Plate V. fig. 8.) Syntomis nigra, Hmpsn. Moths Ind. i. p. 221 (1892). J. Black; tegulae and patagia fringed with yellow; thorax striped with yellow; abdomen with the segments slightly fringed with yellow. Fore wing hyaline; the veins black; a black dis- coidal patch extending between veins 5 and 6 to the large apical patch which extends from costa to vein 4. Hind wing hyaline ; the veins and costa black; an apical black patch broad at costa, tapering to a point near tornus. Hah. Simla, 1 J (
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