56 ARCTIIDJE. 



the red spots being placed on white patches ; an oblique white 

 irregular postmedial band. Hind wing with the irregular marginal 

 black band wider. 



In the form cruentata the spot on head and the ground-colour 

 of thorax are yellow ; the red spots of the fore wing are smaller 

 and placed on yellowish-white instead of pure white patches. 



Hob. Madagascar ; Mauritius ; Sikhim ; Sumatra. Exp., tf 40, 

 50-54 millim. 



Genus CYANA. 



Cyana, Wlk. Cat. ii, p. 528 (1854). 



Doliche, Wlk. Cat. ii, p. 529. 



Bizone, Wlk. Cat. ii, p. 548. 



Chioncema, Herr.-Schaffer, Samml. aussereur. Schmett.ip.2I (1850). 



Type, C. detrita, Wlk. 



Range. Africa ; Madagascar ; China ; throughout India, Ceylon, 

 and Burma ; Sumatra ; Java ; Borneo. 



Palpi slender and upturned. Antennae ciliated. Fore wing of 

 male with a more or less strongly developed fringe of hair from 

 the centre of costa on upperside and lobe on underside, which much 

 distorts the subcostal nervures. Vein 5 absent in male ; vein 6 

 usually absent in female ; 7, 8, 9 stalked. Hind wing with veins 3 

 and 4 stalked ; 5 from above angle of cell ; 6 and 7 usually stalked. 



SECT. I. Fore wing in female with veins 4 and 5 stalked ; male with 

 the costal tuft large ; the lobe single, elongate, and large. 



A. Fore iving with vein 6 absent in female. Hind winy with 

 veins 6 and 7 from angle of cell. 



a. Fore wing of male with three black spots, of female with one. 



a'. Male with a large patch of modified chocolate scales on disk 

 of fore iving on underside, a similar patch in upper part of 

 cell of hind wing on upperside, the costa being highly arched. 



1281. Cyana peregrina, Wlk. Cat. ii, p. 551 ; C. $ S. no. 668. 



Bizone quadrinotata, Wlk. Char. Undescr. Het. p. 90; C. fy S. 



no. 671. 



Lithosia alhorosea, Wlk. Cat. xxxi, p. 230 ; C.fyS. no. 656. 

 Bizone pallens, Butt. Trans. Ent.Soc. 1877, p. 388 ; C.fyS. no. 667. 

 Bizone puella, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. ii, p. 103, ngs. 3 ; 3 a (necDrury). 



Palpi crimson ; head and thorax 

 white ; one scarlet band on 

 collar and two on thorax ; abdo- 

 men with a crimson tinge. Fore 

 wing white; a subbasal scarlet 

 band ; ante- and postmedial nearly 

 straight oblique bands, the former 

 inwardly edged with black, the 

 ^^ outw | pdly . ft marginal 



crimson band, which in the male is continued along the costa to 

 the postmedial band. Hind wing pale crimson. 



