Cyana boetonensis (Jurriaanse & Lindemans, 1920)

Jurriaanse, J. H. & Lindemans, J. (1920). Bijdrage tot de kennis der Lepidoptera
van Z.O.-Celebes en omliggende eilanden. Tijdschrift voor Entomologie 62
(Supplement): pp. 35-36, text-figure. Described in the genus Chionaema.
Translated from the Dutch original.

Gen. Chionaema Herr.-Schaeff.

137. C. boetonensis spec. nov.

1 female -- Boeton Island. 11-'17.

Head white; palpi light red-brown with white tips; shoulder-covers and thorax
brick-red; legs light brown; abdomen above and below white.

Fore wing upperside: Ground colour bright white; base brick-red, bounded by a
vertical black line, thickened in the middle into a small black spot. A sub-
costal vertical brick-red band, 4 mm. wide, bounded inwardly by a thick,
outwardly by a thin black line. A post-discal brick-red band, 3 mm. wide,
bounded inwardly by a thin, outwardly by a thick black line. The terminal part
brick-red, with a point projecting inwards on vein 6, up to the post-discal red
band, bounded by a thin black line. Fringe white. A black dot on vein 6, in the
middle white band.

Hind wing upperside: The basal and sub-basal part white, the rest brownish
dusted. Fringe white.

Underside fore wing: light brown sooty dusted, and the red bands and black
boundary lines show through somewhat. A whitish spot stands on the sub-apical
part of the costa.

Underside hind wing: as upperside.

Length of fore wing 20 mm.

In the opinion of Sir George Hampson this new species should be placed near
Chionaema fasciatella Rothsch.

Text-figure: Chionaema boetonensis, female.

Jurriaanse, J. H. (1920). [Remarks in:] Verslag van de vier-en-zeventigste
zomervergadering der Nederlandsche Entomologische Vereeniging. Tijdschrift voor
Entomologie 62: p. XLIX; the volume's list of corrections reads "nov. subsp." as
"nov. spec.". Translated from the Dutch original.

Chionema boetonensis nov. subsp. 1 female from Boeton. Ground colour of the fore
wings white, with three broad, vertical, red bands across the fore wings and a
red wing tip, which partly projects inwards up to the penultimate band. All red
stripes edged on both sides with a thin black line. The hind wings white, with a
brownish dusted outer margin.