. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 618 ARCTIAD^E. cS. Head and thorax white mixed with some orange-yellow ; palpi orange ; fore and mid legs mostly orange, the hind tarsi orange except basal joint; abdomen white, dorsally suffused with crimson towards extremity leaving the anal tuft white. Fore wing white ; an oblique orange subbasal bar from costa ; a small round orange antemedial spot below the cell with curved bar beyond it from costa and oblique bar from below it to inner margin ; a round. Fig. 187.—Chionsema auranti/puncta, <$. -J-. orange spot in midd


. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 618 ARCTIAD^E. cS. Head and thorax white mixed with some orange-yellow ; palpi orange ; fore and mid legs mostly orange, the hind tarsi orange except basal joint; abdomen white, dorsally suffused with crimson towards extremity leaving the anal tuft white. Fore wing white ; an oblique orange subbasal bar from costa ; a small round orange antemedial spot below the cell with curved bar beyond it from costa and oblique bar from below it to inner margin ; a round. Fig. 187.—Chionsema auranti/puncta, <$. -J-. orange spot in middle of cell, another at lower angle, and oblique bar be}rond upper angle ; postmedial line orange, slightly bent out- wards below costa, then slightly dentate, oblique to vein 4, then erect; a curved somewhat dentate orange line from below costa before apex to termen above tornus. Hind wing white tinged with pale crimson except on costal area ; cilia white. Underside white ; fore wing with the costa except towards apex and a bar beyond upper angle of cell pale crimson. Sab. Lombok, Sapit (FriiJistorfer), type f 6 in Coll. Eoth- schild. Exp. 30 millim. 642 a. ChionEema flavicincta. Chionsema flavicincta, Hinpsn. A. M. N. H. (7) xi. p. 345 (1903). Fore wing of male with the costal fringe moderate, a thick fringe of long hair on underside below the cell, the lobes large. 6 . Head and thorax white; palpi black ; antennae red ; tegulse. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology; Hampson, George Francis, Sir, 10th bart. , 1860-1936. London : Printed by Order of the Trustees


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