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CHIONAEMA. By Dr. M. Dratjdt. 
punctistri- 
f/osa. 
bellissima. 
rubromargi- 
nata. 
propinqua. 
dudgeon i. 
subornala. 
linatula. 
pitana. 
cocci nea. 
jlavotincta. 
uurantio- 
rufa. 
niasana. 
deter minata. 
biunca. 
insularis. 
C. punctistrigosa Rothsch. In the $ the antennae are of a light brown, head and thorax brick-coloured 
yellowish-grey, thorax and base of patagia spotted black; abdomen greyish-brown, the two basal joints densely 
clad with golden buff hair, the anal tuft golden buff. Forewings brick-coloured yellowish-grey. The basal 
two thirds with a series of small black spots, the largest of which extends from the middle of the proximal margin 
to the median fold; the distal third clouded with sooty grey, and with sooty grey curved and dentate lines. 
Hindwing: the basal two thirds orange-buff, the distal third sooty blackish-grey. Length of forewings: 15 y 2 mm. 
Mount Goliath, New Guinea, taken in March at an altitude of 5000 ft. 
C. bellissima Moore (Vol. II, t. 12 b). This common, beautiful species widely distributed in the Himalaya 
and extending into the palearctic region exhibits on its white forewing ante- and postmedian red transverse 
bands, an antemarginal broad orange band and at the cell-end in both sexes 3 black dots. Hindwing carmine 
with yellow, in the $ white fringes. — rubromarginata form. nov. may bo called the form in which the marginal 
band is carmine instead of orange. 
C. propinqua Wil. is a little like interrogationis Pouj., but easily discernible by the following marks: 
in the $ the head and thorax are white, the latter spotted reddish; abdomen whitish, the anal segment inter¬ 
mixed with reddish hair. Forewing with the three reddish bands and a narrow marginal band; sexual mark of a 
moderate size, below it 3 black spots; the 1st band is broad, below the costa angled, the 2nd below the middle 
proximally angled, and the 3rd above the middle distally angled. Hindwings reddish. Under surface reddish, 
on the forewing a whitish streak along the proximal margin and a small blackish spot in the cell. Fringes of 
all the wings whitish, those of the hindwings on both sides tinted yellow. $ like the except the post-median 
band of both wings being rather very undulate. $ taken in May, in August. Formosa. 
C. dudgeoni Hmps. (16 1) looks very much like the alborosea- group, but with the species following 
upon bellissima the scent-scales are entirely absent. White with the usual 4 red transverse lines and 3 black 
cliscal dots. Sikkim, Assam. 
C. subornata Wkr. is very much like dudgeoni and distinguishable by the posterior transverse line 
being proximally angled below the costal margin. -— In f. linatula Swinh. the middle transverse lines are on 
the averted sides bordered with black. Distributed from India through Ceylon to Borneo. 
C. pitana Moore ( 16 1) is distinguished by purely white hindwings. On the forewing the anterior transverse 
line projects below the cell in an acute angle proximally towards the base; the distal one is feebly undulate, 
the red marginal band is absent. Java. The larva described and figured by Piepers is black, with long grey 
hair and subdorsal ochreous-yellow macular stripes that are united on the anterior and last rings. It lives on 
mosses on wet walls and it changes into a red-brown pupa in a wide-meshed reticular web, as was described 
in javanica. 
C. coccinea Moore (16 1). The $ is easily recognizable by the yellow ground-colour and the very broad 
red transverse bands, the middle ones of which are on the averted sides bordered with black. The $ has a white 
ground-colour and only 2 black discal spots, whilst the exhibits 3. From Sikkim, Burma and the Andamans. 
-— In flavotincta form. nov. (= ab. 1 Hmps.) from Bhamo the red colour has turned yellow. 
C. aurantiorufa Rothsch. Body light brownish orange, collar and shoulder-covers bordered with 
brick-red. Fore wings pale orange; 3 transverse bands, near the base, before and behind the middle, are salmon- 
coloured. the t wo middle ones on the averted sides bordered with black; the marginal part is tinged pink; a 
black spot in the cell and two at the transverse vein. Hindwings dark salmon-coloured. Length of forewings: 
16 mm. Sumatra (Padang Bovenlanden). -— subsp. niasana Rothsch. from Nias has a more Nanking-yellow 
ground-colour, the two middle transverse bands are almost quite black, only with traces of red; the $ has only 
2 black discal spots. Length of forewings: $ 21, $ 1 P/ 2 mm. 
C. determinata Wkr. from Borneo is very much like the yellow form of coccinea, but the black bordering 
of the anterior transverse line is slightly undulate, in the preceding simply rounded off. Hindwings light yellow, 
towards the base whitish. 
C. bianca Wkr. (161) differs from the preceding by its carmine hindwings; the proximal black border¬ 
line of the anterior red transverse stripe is strongly undulated, the ground-colour of the forewings in both sexes 
white. The has 3, the $ 2 black discal spots. Sikkim, Assam, Burma, Penang. — insularis form. nov. 
(= ab. 1 Hmps.) from Borneo and Java has more or less white hindwings with only a red border; on the fore¬ 
wing the red marginal band turns round the apex as far as the fusion with the posterior transverse stripe. 
This form is somewhat smaller than the type. The larva is black, intensely watered with green, with red sub¬ 
dorsal tubercles on the middle segments and orange-yellow knob-shaped warts on the 3rd and penultimate 
segments and a narrow yellow lateral line; the tubercles exhibit very long black hair. It lives on moss on trunks 
and in a loose reticular web it changes into a pupa marked golden-yellow and brown, yielding the imago after 
10 days. 
