CHTON^MA. 621 



black ; neck with scarlet ring ; tegula? and patagia tipped with 

 scarlet ; meso- and metathorax with scarlet bands ; pectus scarlet 

 in front ; tibia? and tarsi fuscous in front ; abdomen pale crimson, 

 the base and ventral surface white, the anal tuft ochreous. Fore 

 wing white ; a subbasal scarlet bar from costa ; an antemedial 

 slightly curved scarlet band defined by a black line on inner side ; 

 an elliptical black discoidal spot ; postmedial scarlet band defined 

 by a black line on outer side oblique from costa to vein 3, then 

 erect, a scarlet mark on costa beyond it connected with the 

 terminal scarlet band with dentate inner edge, ending just above 

 tornus. Hind wing crimson, the costal area and cilia whitish. 

 Hab. Nias I., 1 6 type. Exp. 44 millim. 



*648 b. Chionaema fasciatella. (Plate XXXIII. fig. 7.) 



Chionsema fasciatella, Roths. Nov. Zool. xix. p. 245 (1912). 



S . Head and thorax white ; palpi, lower part of frons, and 

 antennae except at base orange ; tegulse and terminal half of patagia 

 orange, the mesothorax with orange band ; fore coxae orange, the 

 tibiae and tarsi banded with orange ; abdomen white, the terminal 

 half of dorsum and anal tuft below orange. Fore wing white ; a 

 sinuous orange subbasal band not reaching inner margin and defined 

 on outer side by black ; an orange antemedial band defined on inner 

 side by black and slightly curved inwards to costa, emitting a spur 

 on outer side in cell to near the two, sometimes conjoined, black 

 discoidal spots ; an obliquely curved postmedial orange band defined 

 on outer side by black ; some orange at the extremity of the costal 

 fringe ; a terminal orange band not quite reaching tornus and with 

 somewhat dentate inner edge. Hind wing yellow tinged with pink, 

 the costal area white to beyond middle. Underside of fore wing 

 suffused with orange except on inner area, the costa tinged with 

 scarlet towards base. 



$ . Fore wing with one black discoidal spot, the postmedial band 

 slightly bent outwards to costa ; underside of both wings orange 

 tinged with scarlet. 



Hab. Celebes, Palos B., Dongala (Bolwrti/), type t 6 in Coll. 

 Eothschild, Tondano, Bonthain. Exp. cS 38, § 40-40 millim. 



649 a. Chionaema saulia. (Plate XXXIII. fig. 8.) 



Chionsema saulia, Swinh. A. M. N. H. (7) viii. p. 124. (1901). 



5 . White ; palpi scarlet, black at tips ; antennas brownish ; tegulae 

 with curved scarlet bands; patagia tipped with scarlet; fore coxae 

 scarlet in front, the tibiae and tarsi black above with two white 

 spots on former; abdomen dorsally scarlet towards extremity. 

 Fore wing with scarlet subbasal line from costa to submedian fold, 

 angled outwards below costa ; slightly curved ante- and postmedial 

 scarlet lines ; a black discoidal spot ; some scarlet subterminal 

 marks almost obsolete except below apex. 



Hub. Bobneo, Paitan (Everett), 1 5 type. Exp. 44 millim. 



