EEESSA. 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 



Eressamidtigutta, S- \- below veins 3 and 2 ; vein 5 some- 



times from rather near 3. 

 Hah. China ; Tibet ; Nepal {Uardivulce), type : Sikhim (Sadler), 

 Moore Coll. ; Burma. Ea^p. 25-32 millim. Type blanchardi in 

 Mus. Paris. 



224. Eressa lepcha. (Plate Y. 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 ; tegular, 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 lud. i. p. 221 (1892). 



d . Black ; tegulse 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 {H. C. Harford), type. Exp. 25 millim. 



Sect. III. Antenna of male laminate; frons with deep furrow; fore femora 

 and tibi:i3 with tliieli tufts of scales. 



*226. Eressa ypleta. 



Syntomis ypleta, Swiah. Cat. Het. Mus. Oxou. p. 47 (1892). 

 (S . Black ; frons, tegular, patagia, and fore legs orange ; abdomen 



