ERYGIA. 
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areas burut-sienna clouded with blackish grey ; costa crossed by numerous short black dashes ; 
tlie double outlines of the central belt ill-defined, excepting where they cross the sienna 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 but sharply defined black outlines; a patch at apex, a second 
at external angle, and several intermediate longitudinal dashes blackish grey varied with 
intense black and sprinkled with pearly-blue scales : secondaries pale bufl:', with the outer two 
fifths (excepting two or three apical spots) dark cupreous brown; fringe with the apical two 
fifths buff, the remainder black with a yelloAvish basal line and tipped with white towards 
anal angle : head and collar testaceous, shaded with sienna, changing in certain lights to rose- 
l)ink and barred with blue-black ; tegulie burnt-sienna, obliquely banded and bordered with 
dark brown ; thorax and abdomen dark brown, with 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 in 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, GMe«.* 
Erygia sigillata. (Plate 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 sprinkling 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 jiale 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 gi'ey, dotted with whitish behind each marginal lunule : secondaries 
greyish brown, whitish on costal area ; a dusky marginal line ; fringe pale at base : body 
* CalicuJa of Walker (Lep. Het. xv. p. 1807) is congeneric with Enjgia. E. apicalis, Calicula 
sqiianiiplena, and Diantlimia (/eometroides arc one species ; and E. usta is probably only a slight 
variety of the same. 
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