CHIONiEMA. 299- 



a terminal band running round the apex to the postmedial band. 

 Hind "wing pale crimson. 



5 . Fore wing with one discoidal black spot ; the terminal band 

 not running round the apex. 



Hah. N.AV. Himalayas, Simla, Dalhousie {Harford), 1 c? , 3 $ ^ 

 Kangra {Hocking), 4 c5' , 3 $ , Umballa, 1 c? , 1 $ ; Nepal {Harcl- 

 wicke), Id", 1 2 : Bombay ; Nilgiris {Hampson), 2 $ ; Ceylon. 

 Kvj>., S 28, 2 32-36 millim. 



626. Chionjema alborosea. 



Lithosia alborosea, Wlk. xxxi. 230 (1864) ; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 56^ 



& iv. p. 492 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 302. 

 Bizone quaclrinotata, Wlk. Char. Lep. Het. p. 90 (1869); Kirby, Cat. Het, 



p. 302. 

 Bizone fallens, Butl. Trans. Ent. See. 1877, p. 338 ; id. 111. Het. v. p. 36, 



pi. 86. f. 7 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 302. 

 Cyana dicclgeoni, Hmpsn. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1895, p. 293 (5). 



cJ . White ; palpi brown ; teguloe edged with scarlet ; a scarlet 

 band across thorax and patagia ; legs brown and white ; abdomen 

 slightly tinged with crimson on dorsum. Fore wing with subbasal 

 scarlet band expanding at costa ; an antemedial scarlet line obtusely 

 angled outwards below costa ; the postmedial line oblique and some- 

 what wider on inner half of wing; a black spot in end of cell and 

 two on discocellulars ; a short yellow streak beyond the postmedial 

 line below the costa ; a terminal scarlet band with slightly waved 

 inner edge running just round the apex and not reaching tornus. 

 Hind wing pale crimson ; the cilia white. 



Ab. 1. quaclrinotata. Fore wing with the streak beyond the post- 

 medial line black; hind wing in the Hongkong specimen white 

 towards base. 



Ab. 2. Hind wing pure white. — Java. 



5 . Fore wing with one discoidal black spot. 



Hah. Hongkong (J. J. Walker), 1 S , {Boivring) 2 5 ; Sikhim 

 {StracJieif), 1 2 type, {Lidderdale) 1 S , {Dudgeon) 1 J , type 

 dudgeoni ( $ ); Bhutan {Dudgeon), 1 c? , 1 5 ; Assam, Khasis, 1 S , 

 1 5 ; Burma, Moulmein {Clerk), 1 $, type pcdlens ; Java, 1 $, 

 Exp., <S 26, $ 30 millim. 



627. Chionaema obliquilmeata, n. sp. (Plate XXVI. fig. 24.) 



cJ . White ; palpi brown at tips ; antennae crimson ; tegulse 

 edged with crimson ; crimson bands across tegulse and patagia 

 and on metathorax ; abdomen dorsally tinged with crimson excei)t 

 towards base. Fore wing with rather irregular antemedial scarlet 

 line not reaching inner margin ; very oblique ante- and postmedial 

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

 diffused fuscous patch below costa towards apex ; a nearly terminal 

 scarlet band bent inwards below the apex to a point on costa above 

 the fuscous patch ; the apex somewhat produced upwards. Hind 

 wing pale crimson, the costal area and cilia white. 



Hah. Sikhim, 1800 feet {Dudgeon), 1 S type. Exp. 32 millim. 



