. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. chionjema. 627 before middle to near apex, not quite reaching inner margin near tornus, its inner edge irregular, its outer edge curved. Hab. SOLOMON Is., Isabel I. {Meek), 2tJ, Bougainville I. {Meek), 1 6 . Exp. :32 millim. Type t o*, $ in Coll. Rothschild. #Go'G a. Chionaema punctistrigosa. Chionsema •pwnctistrigosa, Roths. Nov, Zool. xx. p. 225 (1913). Fore wing of male with veins 3, 4 becoming coincident well before termen. <S . Head and thorax yellow, the patagia at base and prothorax with paired black spots, the meta
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. chionjema. 627 before middle to near apex, not quite reaching inner margin near tornus, its inner edge irregular, its outer edge curved. Hab. SOLOMON Is., Isabel I. {Meek), 2tJ, Bougainville I. {Meek), 1 6 . Exp. :32 millim. Type t o*, $ in Coll. Rothschild. #Go'G a. Chionaema punctistrigosa. Chionsema •pwnctistrigosa, Roths. Nov, Zool. xx. p. 225 (1913). Fore wing of male with veins 3, 4 becoming coincident well before termen. <S . Head and thorax yellow, the patagia at base and prothorax with paired black spots, the metathorax with' black spots at sides and one behind ; palpi fuscous at sides; pectus in front and fore and mid femora and tibiae with some fuscous; abdomen yellow dorsally suffused with fuscous at middle and ventrally with fuscous bands. Fore wing yellow; subbasal black spots below costa and cell; antemedial black spots below costa, in cell and on vein 1; a black spot tinged with metallic blue in middle of cell, another towards extremity, and one at upper angle ; an oblique medial. Fig. 191.—Chionsema pwnctistrigosa, <$, \f black brown band from submedian fold to inner margin ; a fuscous spot below costa above end of cell, postmedial black spots on costa and beyond the cell, and two incurved irregularly waved fuscous lines from and from beyond lower angle of cell to inner margin, the outer giving off shoit fasciae below vein 4 and at submedian fold; a diffused oblique fuscous fascia from apex to beyond the cell and a subterminal shade; two fuscous spots on termen below apex. Hind wing yellow; the terminal area reddish brown, broadly at apex, narrowing to tornus. Underside of fore wing and costal area of hind wing suffused with brown, the latter with brown discoidal spot. Hab. Br. N. Guinea, Mt. Goliath (Mejek), type t S in Coll. Rothschild. JSxp. 28 millim. *06G6. Chionaema transfasciata. (Plate XXXIII. figs. 17rf,18 ?.) Ilema transfasciata, Roths. Nov. Zool. xix. p. 222
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