. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 030 ventral surface orange-yellow. Fore wing orange-yellow ; the costal edge black-brown emitting a spur to submedian fold close to the base; the terminal area broadly black-brown, its inner edge curved inwards to costa. Hind wing orange-yellow; some black-brown hair in the fold above inner margin except at base; the terminal area black-brown, broad at costa, narrowing to tornus. Hab. German ~N. Guinea, type f 6 in Coll. Rothschild. Exp. 30 millim. *094 6. Chionama biagi. (Plate XXXII. fig. 23.) Chionsema biagi,
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 030 ventral surface orange-yellow. Fore wing orange-yellow ; the costal edge black-brown emitting a spur to submedian fold close to the base; the terminal area broadly black-brown, its inner edge curved inwards to costa. Hind wing orange-yellow; some black-brown hair in the fold above inner margin except at base; the terminal area black-brown, broad at costa, narrowing to tornus. Hab. German ~N. Guinea, type f 6 in Coll. Rothschild. Exp. 30 millim. *094 6. Chionama biagi. (Plate XXXII. fig. 23.) Chionsema biagi, , Nov. Zool. xv. p. 195 (1908). 6 â Head, thorax, and abdomen fuscous brown mixed with whitish ; legs whitish, the tarsi brown ringed with white. Fore wing whitish suit"used with fuscous brown leaving a broad whitish antemedial band irrorated with brown and with somewhat waved edges ; a slight whitish discoidal lunule ; postmedial line indistinct, dark, bent outwards between veins 7 and 4, minutely dentate, the area beyond it whitish irrorated with brown ; an indistinct diffused dark subterminal line, angled outwards at veins 7, 6, 4. Hind wing white tinged with brown. Hub. Bn. N. Guinea, Biagi (Meek), type f 6 in Coll. Bethune- Baker. Exp. 20 millim. 094 c. Chionaema asticta. Chionsema asticta, Hmpsn. N. H. (8) iv. p. 355 (1909). Fore wing of male with vein 5 from middle of cell, 0 from upper angle, 7 and 9 stalked, 8 absent, the lobe represented by a slight distortion and veins 10, 11 almost obsolete; of female with vein 5 from lower angle of cell, 0 stalked with 7 and 9, 10, 11 from Fig. 194âChionsema asticta, J. ]. White; palpi blackish; antennae tinged with fuscous except at base ; tegulse edged with orange in male; fore legs tinged with fuscous in front. Fore wing with the costal edge orange to beyond middle ; the underside with the costa suffused with Hab. Queensland, Kuranda (Dodd), H,l? type. Exp. 22 Please note that
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