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contignons Innnles, unconnected with the dark marginal patch. Moreover, the 

 elbow in the hindmargin of forewings be3'ond vein 3, and the excision lieyond cell 

 in the hindmargin of the hindwings are much more marked in strignta. Still it 

 is possible the two may be seasonal forms of the same insect. 



Subfamily SELIDOSEMINAE. 

 Scionomia gen. nov. 



Forewings : elongate ; costa straight, convex at base, and before apex ; apex 

 prominent, not acute ; hindmargin curved, and somewhat sinnons, being faintly 

 concave just beneath apex and bulging in the middle. 



I Unci wings : narrow, with hindmargin rounded and subcrenulate. 



Forewings of S with round, quite transparent fovea. Abdomen of S long and 

 slender ; antennae simple, lamellate ; tongae jH-esent ; palpi obliquely upcnrved, 

 reaching top of head ; second joint hairy, third small and smooth ; hind-tibiae 

 dilated, with four spurs. 



Neuration : forewings, cell decidedly more than half as long as wing, broad ; 

 discocellular vertical, slightly concave ; first median at two-thirds, second close 

 before lower angle ; radials normal ; first subcostal anastomosing and becoming 

 coincident with the costal ; second free ; third and fourth stalked from near end of 

 cell, fourtli into apex ; fifth absent. Hindwings with first subcostal and second 

 median each before the end of cell. 



Type : Scionomia mendica Butler {Cidaria). 



Subfamily SEMIOTHISINAE. 

 32. Gubaria biflava sp. nov. 



Forewings : dark purple slate-colour, with a broad white central band edged on 

 both sides by a black line, the inner attached to the black cell-mark at the subcostal 

 vein, the outer angled below costa, the angle filled up with dark, and the black line 

 itself mixed with orange scales ; costa grey mixed with orange scales ; a black costal 

 blotch before apex margined with orange, with a minute pale spot at its lower edge ; 

 marginal line black, slightly swollen between the veins ; fringe pnrjilish grey, paler 

 just at apex and below middle ; a fine black acutely angled basal line. 



Hindwings : with the white band narrowed at each end, the inner black line 

 straight, the outer curved in towards it at costa and inner margin, and mixed with 

 orange scales ; veins beyond finely orange ; a small white triangular space along 

 margin from vein 2 to 4, preceded between veins 3 and 4 by a long black blotch, 

 the space between 4 and 7 irregularly blotched with black ; fringe white at apex, 

 below vein 7, and from vein 2 to 4, the rest purplish grey ; inner margin and 

 fringe yellowish. 



Underside : basal area of both wings orange, this colour extending along costa 

 and forming a large square blotch beyond second line, with a small white dot at its 

 lower end ; the rest as above. Thorax and basal half of abdomen above j)urplish 

 cinereous ; face and palpi, anal segments of abdomen above, the whole body beneath, 

 and the legs orange. 



Expanse of wings : 44 mm. 



One S from Great P.anda, October 1808 (H. Kiihn). 



