eressa. 47 



A small pale form ; wings with the hyaline markings rather 

 small. 



Penang (Cart/*), typef S in Coll. Rothschild; Toxkix. 



Eressa confinis, intensa, Roths. Nov. Zool. xvii. p. 438 (1910), & xix. 

 p. 376, pi. iv. f. 7. 



A dark form ; wings with the hyaline markings rather small. 

 Madras, Belgaum, type f 6 hi Coll. Rothschild. 



*2l2a. Eressa catena. (Plate 111. fig. 12.) 



Sijtilomoides catena, Wilemaii, Entom. xliii. p. 220 (1910). 



5 . Head, thorax, and abdomen fuscous brown, the prothorax 

 with pale yellowish patch, the abdomen with dorsal lateral and 

 ventral series of small yellow spots, the anal tuft with some whitish 

 hair. Fore wing fuscous brown ; a quadrate hyaline white spot in 

 end of cell, spot above base of vein 2, elongate patch below vein 2, 

 and four postmedial spots between veins 7 and 3. Hind wing- 

 fuscous brown with small hyaline white spots above bases of 

 veins 2 and 3. 



llab. Formosa, G-arambi (Wilnnan), typef $ in Coll. Wile- 

 man. Exp. 24 millim. 



212 b. Eressa strepsimeris. (Plate III. fig. 13.) 



Choromeles strepsimeris, Meyr. P. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. (2) i. p. 78G 



(1886). 



5 . Head and tegulre orange-yellow, the palpi, antenna 1 , and a 

 band between their bases brown ; thorax brown, the outer edge of 

 patagia and patches on pro- and metathorax orange-yellow ; pectus 

 with lateral orange-yellow patches ; abdomen brown with six 

 orange-yellow dorsal bands and ventral series of bars, the anal tuft 

 grey-brown. Fore wing brown ; a quadrate ochreous hyaline patch 

 in end of cell, elongate patch below middle of cell and basal half of 

 vein 2, patch above base of vein 2, rather elongate spots above veins 

 6, 4, 3 and smaller spots below 6. Hind wing brown ; an ochreous 

 hyaline patch in cell and patches below the cell and above bases of 

 veins 2 and 3. 



Hob N. Australia, Pt. Darwin (J. J. Waller), 1 $ . Exp. 

 38 millim. Type f in Mus. Sydney Univ. 



212 c. Eressa xanthostacta. (Plate III. fig. 14.) 

 Eressa xanthostacta, Hmpsn. A. M. N. H. (7) xi. p. 339 (1903). 



d . Fuscous brown. Head orange except palpi, antennae and a 

 band between their bases ; teguhe and patches on patagia, pro- and 

 metathorax orange; fore and mid le^-s fuscous brown, hind 1clt> 

 pale red-brown ; abdomen with seven orange bands, the anal tuft 



