320 AECTIAD^. 



bands ; fore legs banded with brown ; abdomen scarlet above. 

 Fore wing white, with subbasal scarlet band from costa to vein 1 ; 



Y\g.2'2Q.—Chion(S7nahellissima,S- !• 



an oblique slightly sinuons band expanding towards inner margin ; 

 a black spot in end of cell and two on discocellulars ; an obliquely 

 curved postmedial scarlet band expanding below middle and with 

 short black streak beyond it below costa ; a broad yellow band on 

 terminal area angled inwards below costa and leaving the apex 

 white; the lobe minute. Hind wing crimson, the cilia yellowish. 



2 . The scarlet bands of fore wing narrow ; the subterminal 

 yellow baud narrow ; hind wing with the apex, termen, aud cilia 

 white, 



Ab. 1 . Fore wing with the subterminal band scarlet. 



Hah. N.W. Himalayas, Mussooree, 1 J type ; Sikhim (Lidderdale), 

 1 c^; BcjEMA, E. Pegu. Exj^, ^ 46, $ 51-64 millim. 



669. CMonaema interrogationis. (Plate XXVII. fig. 4.) 



Bizone interrogationis, Pouj. Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. (6) vi. p. cxxv (1886); 

 Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 303. 



S . "White ; palpi, antenntc, and the greater part of legs brownish 

 yellow ; orange-red spots on inner side of tegulae and on patagia ; 

 the terminal half of abdomen suffused with pale crimson. Fore 

 wing with orange-red spot at base connected by a streak on costa 

 with the sinuous subbasal line, which is attenuate towards lower end 

 and not reaching inner margin ; an antemedial orange-red band 

 cxcurved from costa to submedian fold, where it is angled inwards, 

 then outwardly oblique ; a black spot in end of cell and two on 

 discocellulars, tlie upper minute and placed on edge of postmedial 

 line, beyond which there is a slight oblique blackish streak below 

 costa ; the postmedial orange-red line oblique and attenuate from 

 costa to vein 4, then much stronger and incurved ; the terminal baud 

 bent inwards and expanding into a wedge-shaped patch below apex, 

 wliich is white, and not reaching toruus. Hind wing pale crimson 

 with a yellowish tinge, the cilia white. 



$ . Fore wing with the markings usually more scarlet; the post- 

 medial line incurved below costa. 



Hah. China, i^hanghai {Fortune), 1 c? , 3 $ , Xankow Pass, 1 ? , 

 Moupin. Exp. 40 millim. 



