320 AECTIAD^. 



bands ; fore legs banded with brown ; abdomen scarlet above. 

 Pore wing wbite, with subbasal scarlet band from costa to vein 1 ; 



Fig. 229. — ChioncBma hellisstma, ^ , \. 



an oblique slightly sinuous band expanding towards inner margin ; 

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

 curved postmedial scarlet baud expanding below middle and with 

 short black streak beyond it below costa ; a broad yellow band on 

 terminal area angled inwards below costa and leaving the apex 

 white; the lobe minute. Hind wing crimson, the cilia yellowish. 



$ . The scarlet bands of fore wing narrow ; the subterminal 

 yellow band narrow ; hind wing with the apex, termen, and cilia 

 •white. 



Ab. 1. Pore wing with the subterminal band scarlet. 



Hal). N.W. Himalayas, Mussooree, 1 S type ; Sikhim (Lidderdale), 

 1 d; EuEMA, E. Pegu. Exj)., 6 46, 5 51-64 millim. 



669. CMonsema interrogationis. (Plate XXVII. fig. 4.) 



Bizone interrogationis, Pouj. Ball. Soc. Ent. Fr. (6) vi. p. cxxv (1886); 

 Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 303. 



S . White ; palpi, antennge, and the greater part of legs brownish 

 yellow ; orange-red spots on inner side of tegulse and on patagia ; 

 the terminal half of abdomen suffused w^ith pale crimson. Pore 

 wing with orange-red spot at base connected by a streak on costa 

 with the sinuous subbasal line, which is attenuate towards lower end 

 and not reaching inner margin ; an antemedial orange-red band 

 excurved from costa to submedian fold, where it is angled inwards, 

 then outwardly oblique ; a black spot in end of cell and two on 

 discocellulars, the upper minute and placed on edge of postmedial 

 line, beyond which there is a slight oblique blackish streak below 

 costa ; the postmedial orange-red line oblique and attenuate from 

 costa to vein 4, then much stronger and incurved ; the terminal band 

 bent inwards and expanding into a wedge-shaped patch below apex, 

 which is white, and not reaching tornus. Hind wing pale crimson 

 ■with a yellowish tinge, the cilia white. 



5 . Pore wing with the markings usually more scarlet ; the post- 

 medial line incurved beJow costa. 



Hah. Chiista, Shanghai {Fortune), 1 c? , 3 $ , Nankow Pass, 1 $ , 

 Moupin. Eccp. 40 millim. 



