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Show 1890.] NEW MOTHS FROM INDIA. 393 2. Like the male but larger, with two larger spots between the bands. Between the red bars on fore wing are three black spots in a triangle, and a fourth outside the bar near the costa close to the fold which is little marked above; below there is a single lobe as in B. sikkimensis. Beneath buff, with the costa of hind wing and hind margin of fore wing white. Head and body white. Thorax buff with white stripes. Legs white with black bands. Of this distinct species I took a male at light near Darjeeling on July 20, 1886, and have seen a female in Atkinson's collection from the Khasia Hills, taken October 1867. I have also a pair from Mao on the Manipur side of the Naga Hills, taken by W . Doherty in August 1889. There is a female without name, from Assam, in the Oxford Museum. b. 2 with 3 spots between 2nd and 3rd bands. 6'. All white, with no marginal band. 13. BIZONE SIGNA. (Plate XXXII. fig. 7, $ , ? var.) B. signa, Walk. Cat. Het. ii. p. 550, 6 (1854). Silhet. IB. fasciculata, Walk. 1. c. vii. p. 1684, 6 (1855). Himalaya, Kulu to Sikkim. B. adita, Moore, Cat. E. I. C. ii. p. 306, t. 7 a. fig. 11, $ (1859). I cannot be certain whether B. signa and B. fasciculata are the same, as the type of the latter is in the Oxford Museum, and the type of B. signa in the British Museum. In this and in one of my Sikkim specimens the two outer spots coalesce and form a short black bar, but it does not seem to be otherwise different. The female which I have figured as B. signa, var. (fig. 7), has no corresponding male. I have four specimens of it from Sikkim, which differ from the female of B. fasciculata, Wk., which is common in Sikkim, by the larger size of the spots, the shape of the outer bar, and the red band on the hinder part of the thorax. I also notice that the basal band in fasciculata is reduced to a line on the costa which runs along it from the 2nd band, whereas in what I figure as signa there is no pink edge to the costa, and the basal band extends nearly to the hind margin. If B. signa and B. fasciculata ( = B. adita) prove distinct, which I doubt, this might be the female of B. signa. If not it may be a new species, which I would call B. walkeri. 14. BIZONE ADELINA. Bizone adelina, Stgr. Rom. Mem. iii. p. 191, t. x. fig. 14, $ (1887). This is most nearly allied to B. fasciculata, Wk., and has the same spots, but differs in the pink bands being more angular and in the pink colour of the hind wings. It seems to be a good species. It was found near Vladivostock in July and August by Christoph. |
