EKYGIA. 7') 



areas bunit-sienna clouded with blackish grey; costa crossed b}' numerous short Ijlack dashes; 

 the double outlines of the central belt ill-defined, excci)ting where they cross the sicuina area, 

 where they are intense velvety black ; the inner lines regularly dentate-sinuate, the outer 

 lines falciform and strongly denticulated; the discoidal spots large, greenish, with grey-brown 

 and pearly centres and slender l)ut sharply defined black outlines; a patch at apex, a second 

 at external angle, and several intermediate longitudinal dashes blackish grey varied witii 

 intense black and sprinkled with pearly-blue scales : secondaries pale buff, with the outer two 

 fifths (excepting two or three apical spots) dark cupreous brown ; fringe with the apical two 

 fifths bnfi', the remainder black with a yellowish basal line and tipjied with white towards 

 anal angle : head and collar testaceous, shaded with sienna, changing in certain lights to rose- 

 pink and barred with blue-black; tcguhe burnt-sienna, obliquely banded and bordered with 

 dark brown ; thorax and abdomen dark brown, Avith velvety-black dorsal tufts. Underside 

 of wings whity brown with golden reflections, the costal borders slightly tinted with sienna ; 

 three or four subbasal spots and two or three subcostal central spots iu all the wings blackish ; 

 a broad grey arched discal band, bounded internally by a denticulated blackish line ; a very 

 indistinct submarginal series of greyish spots ; a marginal series of <-shaped black markings 

 and a series of black spots on the fringe : primaries with a large blackish spot at end of cell : 

 body testaceous, tinted with sienna in front and greyish behind ; tarsi banded with blackish. 

 Expanse of wings 39 millim. 



Dharmsala ; at sugar. Rare. 



ERYGIA, Guen* 



Erygia sigillata. (riate CXXXI. fig. 11.) 



Nearest to E. apicalis ; smaller : primaries ash-grey, clouded with greyish olivaceous ; a 

 small white spot at base of primaries followed by a whitish cup-shaped spot, the latter limited 

 externally by two ill-defined slightly irregular blackish lines, which form the inner boundary 

 of the central belt ; a spriukliug of coarse black scales on the lower half of the central belt, 

 the upper portion enclosing a black-edged dusky orbicular spot and bounded by the outer 

 edge of the so-called " reniform " spot, the interval between these spots being blackish ; the 

 " reniform " spot rounded, white, enclosing a grey and black reniform outline ; a white costal 

 spot above it ; beyond this the costal margin is barred with black ; an ill-defined pale sub- 

 apical crescent and three or four longitudinal black dashes in an oblique series; external 

 angle dark grey, bounded in front by a black longitudinal dash ; a marginal series of black 

 lunules ; fringe dark grey, dotted with whitish behind each marginal lunule : secondaries 

 greyish brown, whitish on costal area ; a dusky marginal line ; fringe pale at base : body 



* Calicula of Walker (Lep. Het. xv. p. 1807) is congeneric with Enjrjia. E. apicalis, Calicula 

 squamiplena, and Diantluvcia geometroides are one species ; and E. unta is probably only a slight 

 variety of the same. 



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