48 amatiDjE. 



orange with brown dorsal patch. Fore wing with semih valine 

 orange angled spot below origin of vein 2, a quadrate, spot in end 

 of cell and small rounded spots above bases of veins 2, 3, 4, and 6. 

 Hind wing with small orange spots in and below cell and above 

 veins 2 and 3. 



2 • Hind legs dark ; abdomen with six orange bands, the anal 

 tuft greyish brown. 



Hab. Queensland, Townsville (DoJJ), 3 d\ 1 $ type. Exp. 

 «5 28, 2 32 millim. 



212 d. Eressa africana. (Plate III. fig. 15.) 



J . Head, thorax, and abdomen black-brown ; frons yellow ; 

 vertex of head with yellow spot ; antennae yellow towards tips ; 

 patagia with yellow patches ; legs yellow streaked with brown ; 

 abdomen with dorsal yellow streak on 2nd to 4th segments, lateral 

 yellow streaks, and the ventral surface oehreous white. Fore wing 

 hyaline, the veins and margins black-brown ; a black-brown dis- 

 coidal patch connected by a streak above vein 5 with the terminal 

 band which expands towards apex and below vein 3. Hind wing 

 hyaline, the veins and margins black-brown ; the costal area 

 broadly dark except towards base ; the terminal band expanding 

 towards apex. 



Hab. Uganda, W. Antiole, 5,000 ft. (Weave), 1 tf type. Exp. 



20 millim. 



*216 a. Eressa ichneumoniformis. 



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

 p. 376, pi. iv. f. 10. 



<$ . Head and thorax black, the tegulse, streaks on outer edge of 

 patagia and each side of dorsum of thorax and spots on metathorax 

 yellow ; frons white ; antennae with the shaft white above except 

 towards base ; coxa? and lateral patches on pectus white ; abdomen 

 black with yellow bands on each segment, the basal band interrupted 

 dorsally. Fore wing hyaline, the veins and margins black ; a black 

 diseoidal band ; the terminal band expanding slightly at apex and 

 between veins 6 and 5. Hind wing hyaline, the veins and margins 

 black ; the terminal band expanding somewhat towards apex. 

 Hab Assam, Khasis, type f S in Coll. Rothschild. Exp. 



21 millim. 



221. Eressa aperiens, insert : — 



Eressa aperiens, khasiana, Roths. Nov. Zool. xvii. p. 438 (1910), & xix. 

 p. 376, pi. iv. f. 8. 



A blacker form ; fore wing with the hyaline markings small ; 

 hind wing with small hyaline spot below vein 2 and point above it. 

 Assam, Khasis, type f J in Coll. Rothschild. 



