. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British Museum. British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology; Moths; Lepidoptera. ERESSA. 121 blue-black bands and lateral series of spots, the extremity blue-black. Pore 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 Fig. 39. to vein 2 and dentate inwards Eressamultigutta, J. \. below veins 3 and 2 ; vein 5 some- times from rather near 3. Hah. China ; Tibet ; Nepal
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British Museum. British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology; Moths; Lepidoptera. ERESSA. 121 blue-black bands and lateral series of spots, the extremity blue-black. Pore 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 Fig. 39. to vein 2 and dentate inwards Eressamultigutta, J. \. below veins 3 and 2 ; vein 5 some- times from rather near 3. Hah. China ; Tibet ; Nepal (Hardwicke)^ type : Sikhim (Sadie)'), Moore Coll.; Burma. £Jxp. 25-32 miUim. Type hlancliardi in Mus. Paris. 224. Eressa lepcha. (Plate Y. fig. 7.) Syntomis lepcha, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 12 (1879); Hinpsn. Moths Ind. i. p. 217 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 102. 5 . Head and thorax black; tegulae, patagia, and metathorax fringed 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. $ . Fore wing without the streak on vein 5. Hah. Sikhim {G. 0. Dudgeon), 1 c? . Exjp. 24 millim. Type f § in Coll. Staudinger. 225. Eressa nigra. (Plate Y. fig. 8.) Syntomis nigra, Hmpsn. Moths Ind. i. p. 221 (1892). 6. 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
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