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*224 a. Eressa everetti. 



Eressa everetti, Eoths. Nov. Zool. xvii. p. 439 (1910), & xix. p. 376, pi. iv. 

 f. 21. 



<3 . Head and thorax pale yellow, the dorsum of thorax and tips 

 of patagia brown ; antennae brown, white at tips ; abdomen yellow 

 with narrow brown segmental binds. Fore wing - hyaline, the veins 

 and margins brown ; a brown diseoidal bar, its outer edge angled 

 at vein 6 and connected by narrow fascia? above vein 5 and below 3 

 with the brown terminal band which expands towards apex and 

 below vein 3. Hind wing hyaline, the veins and margins narrowly 

 brown. 



Hab. N. Borneo, Tutong (Everett), type f c? in Coll. Roth- 

 schild. Exp. 30 millim. 



*224 b. Eressa vespoides. 



Eressa vespoides, ~Roths. Nov. Zool. xvii. p. 43S (1910). & xix. p. 370. pi. iv. 

 f. 9. 



J . Head and thorax black ; frons ochreous white ; teguhe, streaks 

 on outer edge of patagia and on each side of dorsum of thorax, 

 and spots on metathorax orange ; antennae with the shaft white 

 above except towards base ; coxae and lateral patches on pectus 

 whitish; abdomen black with orange bands on each segment. 

 Fore wing hyaline ; the veins and margins black ; a black diseoidal 

 spot connected by a fascia above vein 5 with the terminal band 

 which expands somewhat at apex and vein 2. Hind wing hyaline, 

 the veins and margins black, the terminal band expanding towards 

 apex. 



Hab. Assam, Khasis, type f 3 in Coll. Rothschild. Exp. 

 24 millim. 



225 a. Eressa pleurosticta. 



Eressa pleurosticta, Hmpsn. P. Z. S. 1910, p. 390, pi. xxxvi. f. 4. 



2 • Head, thorax, and abdomen dark brown ; antennae white at 

 tips ; shoulders with yellow patches ; fore legs with the extremities 

 of tibiae and the tarsi yellowish ; abdomen with dorsal yellow band 

 at base and ill-defined yellow lateral and sublateral spots on medial 

 segments. Fore wing black-brown with quadrate hyaline patch in 

 middle of cell, elongate oblique patch below vein 2, small patch 

 above its base, and postmedial patches above veins 6, 5, 4, 3. 

 Hind wing black-brown with hyaline subterminal spots above and 

 below vein 2 and smaller spot above vein 3. 



Hab. Congo, Lualaba R. (Neave'), 1 $ type. Exp. 30 millim. 



Genus PARAL^THIA. 



Typo. 

 Paralmthm, Hmpsn. A. M. N. H. (7) xix. p. 224 (1907) subformidTia. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi porrect, not extending- beyond the frons ; 

 antennae of male ciliated ; fore tibiffi and tarsi of male thickly fringed with 



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