632 ARCTIADJE. 



with fascia from it to the crimson subbasal band, which, is excurved 

 and dilated in the cell, excurved at vein 1, and ends above inner 

 margin; a narrow crimson antemedial band, excurved to median 

 nervure and angled inwards below the cell; a small black spot in end 

 of cell and two discoidal spots ; a crimson postmedial band, narrow 

 and oblique from below costa to vein 4, then erect; a curved crimson 

 band arising below costa and before termen where it is dilated, 

 then terminal from vein -5 to above tornus. Hind wing crimson, 

 the cilia white. Underside of fore wing crimson with some black 

 suffusion in end of cell. 



$ . Fore wing with the postmedial band arising further from 

 base, slightly angled inwards at discal fold and excurved at middle. 



Sab. Formosa, Kanshirei (Wileinan), 1 6 , tvpe f 6 , $ in 

 Coll. Wileman. Eoep. 6 32, $ 40 millim.' 



G73. Chionaema pitana. 



Larva. Piepers, Tijd. v. Ent. xlvii. p. 153, pi. x. f. 7. 



Black clothed with long grey hairs ; subdorsal lines ochreous, 

 conjoined by dorsal bands on 1st and anal somites. Food-plant, 

 Maseus, 



Cocoon, a slender network of hairs in which the pupa is suspended. 



*674 a. Chionaema aurantiorufa. (Plate XXXIII. fig. 20.) 



Chionaema awrantiorufa, Roths. Nov. Zool. xix. p. 246 (1912). 

 Ghionsema aurantiorufa, niasana, Roths. Nov. Zool. xix. p. 246 (1912). 



S • Head and thorax orange-buff, the tegular and patagia deeper 

 orange at tips ; abdomen orange-buff dorsally tinged with crimson . 

 except at base. Fore wing orange-buff, the terminal half tinged 

 with crimson except at costa ; antemedial line black with a faint 

 deeper orange band on its outer side, excurved below costa, then 

 straight and erect ; a black spot in cell near extremity and two dis- 

 coidal spots ; postmedial line black with a faint deeper orange band 

 on its inner side, obliquely bent outwards to costa and very slightly 

 excurved beyond loAver angle of cell. Hind wing orange-buff suf- 

 fused with crimson except the base, costa and cilia. Underside of 

 fore wing suffused with crimson except the costa. 



Ab. 1. niasana. Fore wing with hardly a trace of crimson and 

 the bands almost obsolete ; hind wing paler crimson ; underside of 

 fore wing not suffused with crimson. 



2 . Fore wing with the black spot in cell and one discoidal spot, 

 the postmedial line oblique from costa to vein 6 and from sub- 

 median fold to inner margin. 



Sab. Sumatra, Batang Proepoe, Padang Bovenlanden, type t 

 J in Coll. Rothschild ; Nias, Hili Madjedja, type f 6 , 2 niasana 

 in Coll. Rothschild. Exp. <s 30, $ 40 millim. 



