. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. 320 AKCTIAD-E. bands; fore legs banded with brown; abdomen scarlet above. Fore Aviug white, with subbasal scarlet band from costa to vein 1;. Fig. 229.—Chionctma bellissima, c?. }. 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 band expanding below middle and with short black streak beyond it below costa; a broad yellow band on tormina] area angled inwards below costa and leaving the apex white ; the lobe minute. Hind
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. 320 AKCTIAD-E. bands; fore legs banded with brown; abdomen scarlet above. Fore Aviug white, with subbasal scarlet band from costa to vein 1;. Fig. 229.—Chionctma bellissima, c?. }. 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 band expanding below middle and with short black streak beyond it below costa; a broad yellow band on tormina] area angled inwards below costa and leaving the apex white ; the lobe minute. Hind wing crimson, the cilia yellowish. 2 . The scarlet bands of fore wing narrow ; the subterminal yellow baud narrow; hind wing with the apex, termen, and cilia white. Ah. 1. Fore wing with the subterminal band scarlet. ffah. Himalayas, Mussooree, 1 d type; Sikhim {Lidderdale), 1 S; BcKMA, E. Pegu. ExjK, d 46, $ 51-64 millim. 669. Chionaema interrogationis. (Plate XXVII. fig. 4.) Bi:o7ic interroqationis, Pouj. Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. (6) vi. p. cxxv (1886); Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 303. cJ . A\Tiite ; palpi, antenntc, and the greater part of legs brownish yellow; orange-red spots on inner side of tegulae and on patagia ; the terminal half of abdomen suffused with pale crimson. Fore 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 cxcurved 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 oljlique blackish streak below costa; the postmedial orange-red liiie 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, wliich is white, and not reaching tornus. Hind wing pa
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