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Genus ERESSA. 



Type. 



Eressa, Wlk. i. 149 (1854) cojifinis. 



Cfenandra, Fekl. Sit-z. Akad. Wien, Ixiii. p. .38 (1861) naclioides. 



Trianeura, Butl. Jourii. Linn. Soc, Zool. xii. p. 353 (1870)... suhaurata. 



Chloromeles, Meyr. P. Lina. Soc. N.S.W. (2) i. p. 785 (1886) . geographica. 



Proboscis small or well developed ; palpi short and porrect ; frons hairy ; 

 mid and hind tibiis 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. Antennce of male bipcctinate ; 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. 



cJ . Fulvous brown ; head orange ; abdomen with dorsal orange 



spots on medial segments, a 

 lateral series and ventral bands. 

 Pore 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 

 Yig. 2,1. —Eressa furva, S- l- and 5 



Hab. N. Australia, Damma Island (J. J. Walher)^ 1 S type. 

 Exp. 30 millim. 



B. Hind wing of male with the inner area normal. 



a. Abdomen with dorsal and ventral series of livid 



spots naclioides. 



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 



t of cell confiiiis. 



b^. Fore wing narrow, with the hyaline patch below 



the cell commencing near base of wing subauraf.a. 



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 liitulenta. 



b^. Hind wing black with the markings orange ; no 



spot between veins 2 and 3 geographica. 



c^. Hind wing hyaline with black terminal band. 

 a'^. Fore wing with distinct hyaline patches on 

 terminal area. 

 a^. Frons black, markings of thorax and abdomen 



oran ge ere.'tsoides. 



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