CHION-SMA. 317 



towards extremity scarlet. Fore wing scarlet with black margins, 

 the black costal fascia expanding beyond middle ; the outer edge of 

 the scarlet area curved, then running obliquely from vein 3 to just 

 above inner margin before middle. Hind wing with the basal area 

 orange to beyond middle, its outer edge oblique, extending to just 

 below median nervure, where it is conjoined towards base to a 

 shorter fascia in submedian interspace, and a slight streak on inner 

 margin ; the rest of wing black. 



$ . Hind wing orange down to submedian fold ; patagia wholly 

 scarlet. 



Hah. Amboina, 1 d {Pfeiffer), type laticincta, 1 $ ' Challenger ' 

 CoU. Exp., 6 34, $ 44 millim. 



Subsp. 1. tricolor a, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1877, p. 347. 

 5 . The scarlet replaced by orange with a slight red tinge, on 

 fore Aving extending to nearer termen and down to submedian fold 

 before becoming oblique. 



Hub. Artj ( Wallace), 1 $ type ; IST. Guinea, Kapaur {Doherty), 

 1 6. 



*664. Chionaema hsBmacta. (Plate XXVII. fig. 16.) 



Exotrocha hcsmacta, Snell. Tijd. v. Ent. sxxix. p. 160 (1896). 



^ . Black with a slight bluish gloss ; base of palpi and patches on 

 tegulse, patagia, and neck crimson ; metathorax with crimson patch ; 

 abdomen with crimson ventral patch at extremity. Pore wing with 

 crimson wedge-shaped patch in end of cell. Hind wing hyaline, 

 the costal, inner, and terminal areas broadly blue-black. 



Hah. Borneo, Kina Balu ( Waterstradt) ; Stjmatea, type f c? in 

 Hus. Haarlem. Exjp. 34 miUim. 



665. Chionsema flaviplaga. (Plate XXVII. fig. 17.) 



Gnaphrioides flaviplaga, Heyl. C.E. Soc. Ent. Beige, xxxv. p. 412 (1891)- 

 Kirby, Cat. Het. p.' 914. 



cS . Purplish black ; f rons and patches on patagia, metathorax, 

 throat, and pectus orange ; abdomen with the anal tuft and ventral 

 bands orange. Fore wing with small orange spot near base ; a large 

 somewhat pear-shaped patch from subcostal nervure before end of 

 cell to vein 1. Hind wing semihy aline towards base. 



Hah. Java, Preanger, type t J in Coll. Heylaerts ; Bali {Doliertij), 

 1 cJ . Exp. 32 millim. 



h^. Fore wing of male with veins 3, 4 from cell. 



a^. Fore wing of male with the lobe very large and elongate ; a fringe 



of hair and large scales on upperside from base through the cell 



to eosta beyond middle. 



a^. Fore wing of male with the subcostal and median nervures 



approximated to beyond middle of cell, then downcurved to 



origin of vein 5 ; the subapical neuration much distorted. 



