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costa to the antemedial line, which is oblique to median nervure, 

 where it is conjoined to a short streak in cell, then erect ; black 

 spots at angles of cell or point at lower angle ; the postmedial line 

 very oblique from costa to vein 4, then erect to tornus ; a terminal 

 line running round the apex to the postmedial line just below costa. 

 Hind wing crimson, white at base, the cilia yellowish. Underside 

 of fore wing fuscous, with crimson edges. 



The costal fringe and lobe of male very minute. 



Ab. 1. cruenta. Fore wing with the crimson markings much 

 narrower. 



Ab. 2. Much smaller, 24 millim. Fore wing with the underside 

 crimson, with a little fuscous in cell. Hind wing uniform crimson. 

 — -Formosa. 



2 . Fore wing without the red streak in cell; the terminal line 

 not running round the apex. Hind wing with more wliite on basal 

 area. 



Hab. China, 1 5 , Pekin, Changyang ; Forhosa {Ilobson), 1 c? , 

 1 $ . Exp. o2-3-i millim. 



689. CMonsema hamata. (Plate XXVII. fig. 25.) 



mzone hamata, Wlk. ii. 549 (1854) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 302. 

 Bizone emergens, Wlk. xxsi. 2(31 (186+) ; Xirbj, Cat. Ret. p. 302. 



S . White ; palpi and antennae brown ; tegulse, a band on thorax 

 and patagia, and a spot on metathorax scarlet ; fore tibiae and tarsi 

 banded with brown ; abdomen dorsally tinged with scarlet towards 

 extremity. Fore wing with subbasal scarlet band expanding on 

 costa ; an antemedial band angled outwards to the red spot in end 

 of cell, angled inwards in submedian fold, then curved ; two dis- 

 coid al black spots ; a red spot on the costal fringe, which is well 

 developed ; the postmedial band commencing in a spot just below 

 costa, strongly angled inwards below the costal fringe, then straight 

 to tornus ; a scarlet terminal band. Hind wing pale scarlet, the 

 cilia white. 



§. Abdomen white ; fore wing with the antemedial band ex- 

 curved in cell ; a single black spot on discocellulars ; the postmedial 

 band less bent outwards to costa. 



Hah. Japan, INikko, 1 6 , Yokohama (Jonas), 3 c? , 1 $ ; China, 

 Shanghai (Fortune), 5 c? , type ; Hongkong (Bowring), 1 6 , type 

 emergens; Chusan I. (J.J. Walker), 1 S. Exp., J 32, 2 40 

 millim. 



690. Chionsema inconcltisa. (Plate XXVIl. fig. 29.) 



Bizone inconclusa, Wlk. Journ. Linn. Soc. vi. p. 120 (1862) ; Kirby, Cat. 

 Het. p. 302. 



c? . "White ; palpi and antennae orange-red ; tegulas and patagia 

 edged with orange-red ; orange spots on meso- and metathorax ; 

 legs banded with orange ; abdomen dorsally tinged with orange 



