630 ARCTIADiE. 



pro- and metathorax ; pectus and base of legs whitish tinged with 

 brown ; abdomen fuscous brown with the anal tuft ochreous. Fore 

 wing dark golden brown suffused with fuscous, some whitish scaling 

 at extremity of costal fringe and above medial part of vein 1 ; an 



Fig. 192. — Chionaema aroa, $ . \. 



indistinct oblique waved postmedial line from vein 6 to inner 

 margin defined by whitish on outer side ; two slight whitish marks 

 just before termen below apex. Hing wing fuscous brown. 



Hob. Dutch N.Guinea, Fak-fak (Pratt),! 2 ; Br. N. Guinea, 

 Up. Aroa 11. (Meek), type f <$ and type bmnnea in Coll. Roth- 

 schild. JSxp. 30 millim. 



667 I. Chionaema nigrescens. (Plate XXXIII. fig. 23.) 



Chionsema nigrescens, Roths. Nov. Zool. xx. p. 193 (1913). 



c? . Head and thorax dark reddish brown glossed with silvery 

 grey ; abdomen grey suffused with reddish brown. Fore wing dark 

 reddish brown glossed with silvery grey ; antemedial line indistinct, 

 dark, waved ; traces of a dark medial shade ; postmedial line in- 

 distinct, dark, waved and somewhat maculate, oblique to vein 6, 

 then inwardly oblique ; an indistinct curved dark subterminal shade. 

 Hind wing grey suffused with reddish brown ; the underside paler 

 except the costal area and with blackish discoidal lunule. 



2 . Fore wing with dark sj^ots in middle of cell and on 

 discocellulars. 



Hal. Br. N. Guinea, Mambare R., Biagi (Meek), type f d" , 2 

 in Coll. Rothschild ; Goodenough I. (Meek), 1 d . Exp. 38 

 millim. 



667. Chionaema fumea, insert (syn.) : — 



Chionsema charybdis, Beth. -Baker, Nov. Zool. xi. p. 423, pi. v. f. 27 

 (1904). 



Br. N". Guinea, Dinawa (Pratt), type f J in Coll. Bethune- 

 Baker. 



668 a. Chionaema formosana. 



Chionsema formosana, Hmpsn. A. M. N. H. (8) iv. p. 355 (1909). 



Antennae of male bipectinate with short branches ending in a 

 bristle. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen white ; palpi red-brown at sides ; 



