ERB3SA. 



115 



Genus ERESSA. 



Type. 



Eressa, Wlk. i. 149 (1854) confi7iis. 



Cfenandm, Feld. Sitz. Akacl. Wien, Ixiii. p. 38 (18B1) naclioides. 



Trianeura, Butl. Jourii. Linn. Soc, Zool. xii. p. 353 (1876)... subaiirata. 



Chloromelcs, Moyr. P. Lin a. Soc. N.S.W. (2) i. p. 785 (1886) . geograpUca. 



Proboscis small or well developed ; palpi short and porreet ; frons hairv ; 

 mid and hind tibiie with small terminal pairs of spurs. Fore wing usually 

 broad ; vein 3 from well before an^le of cell ; 4, 5 from angle ; 6 from below 

 upper angle ; 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 stalked. Hind wing with vein 2 from well before 

 angle of cell ; 3, 5 well separated at origin ; 4 absent ; 7 absent. 



Sect. I. Antennae of male bipectinate ; frons without furrow. 



A. Hind wing of male with the inner area lobed and folded over on upper 

 surface of wing. 



208. Eressa furva, n. sp. 



(S . Fulvous brown ; head orange ; abdomen with dorsal orange 



spots on medial segments, a 

 lateral series and ventral bands. 

 Fore wing with brownish hya- 

 line spots below middle of cell, 

 in end and below end of cell ; 

 a postmedial spot above vein 6 



^. «„ T-, ^- , ^^^ ^wo spots between veins 3 



Vig.^l.— Eressa jiirva,S- l- and 5 



nab. N. Australia, Damraa Island (J. /. Walker)^ 1 S type. 

 Exp. 30 millim. 



B. Hind wing of male with the inner area normal. 



a. Abdomen with dorsal and ventral series of livid 



spots 11 aclioides. 



h. Abdomen with dorsal and lateral series of orange- 

 yellow spots, 

 a^. Hind wing with large hyaline patch below base 

 of cell. 

 a^. Fore wing' broad, with the elongate hyaline 

 patch below vein 2 commenciug below middle 



of cell coiifinis. 



h"^. Fore wing narrow, with the hyaline patch below 



the cell commencing near base of wing suhaurata. 



h^. Hind wing with hyaline spots between veins 2 



and5 and in end of cell affinis. 



c. Abdomen with six orange bands. 



a^. Hind wing fuscous with the markings hyaline; a 



spot between veins 2 and 3 lutulenta. 



h^. Hind wing black with the markings orange ; no 



spot between veins 2 and 3 geoqraphica. 



c^. Hind wing hyaline with black terminal band. 

 a^. Fore wing with distinct hyaline patches on 

 terminal area. 

 a^. Frons black, markings of thorax and abdomen 



orange eressoidcs. 



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