. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. 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.â 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 lob
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. 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.â 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 â¢white. Ab. 1. Pore wing with the subterminal band scarlet. Hal). 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. Hi
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