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52076. PlONEA POLIOSTICTA, n. Sp. 



Head and thorax pale yellow tinged with rufous ; abdomen whitish. 

 Forewing pale yellow, the veins and margins rufous ; a dentate rufous ante- 

 medial line with a long tooth above vein I ; a rufous point in cell and a patch 

 beyond lower angle with a grey spot on it ; a dentate rufous postmedial Jine 

 sharply angled on vein 5, then oblique to below end of cell and strongly 

 toothed below vein 2 ; a minutely dentate submarginal line ; a marginal series 

 of rufous points on the veins. Hindwing white with marginal series of 

 rufous points. 



Habitat— Ceylon, Puttalam (Pole.) Exp. 22 mill. Type.— In B. M. 



5214a. PlONEA longipalpalis, n. sp. 



$. Palpi extending about three times length of head. 



Head and thorax fuscous brown ; palpi white below ; abdomen grey dorsally 

 tinged with fuscous and with sublateral series of black spots. Forewing pale 

 reddish-brown irrorated with black ; an indistinct diffused antemedial line 

 oblique from costa to below cell where it is angled; orbicular and reniform 

 fuscoup-brown irrorated with black, the former elongate ; postmedial line 

 minutely waved, oblique and slightly incurved from costa to vein 6. then 

 with whitish marks on its outer edge, at vein 2 retracted to below end of cell. 

 Hindwing white, slightly tinged and irrorated with brown ; a discoidal point ; 

 a curved postmedial line, somewhat angled at vein 4 ; a terminal series of 

 points. 



Habitat — Kashmir, Goorais Valley (Leech). Exp. 26 mill. Type — In B. M. 



52146. PlONEA BRYOPHILAMS, n. sp. 



Palpi extending about twice the length of head. 



£. Head, thorax and abdomen grey irrorated with black ; palpi white 

 below. Forewing grey, thickly irrorated with black, an indistinct waved ante- 

 medial line ; orbicular and reniform very large, grey irrorated with white 

 and defined by fuscous, the area between them whitish ; postmedial line 

 minutely waved, curved, at vein 2 retracted to below end of cell, then ex- 

 curved again, defined by whitish on outer side ; a terminal series of black 

 points. Hindwing whitish suffused and irrorated with fuscous ; a dark 

 discoidal point ; a curved minutely waved postmedial line, defined by whitish 

 on outer side ; a terminal series of black points. 



Habitat. — Chamba. Exp. 30 mill. Type. — In B. M. 



5219a Pionea nypsiusalis, Wlk., Cat. xix., p. 924. 



$. Forewing of male with a large tuft of hair beyond upper angle of cell 

 on underside. 



Bright rose-pink. Forewing with obscure dark sinuous antemedial line ; a 

 dark discoidal spot ; a curved minutely waved postmedial line ; the costal 

 and terminal areas brighter rose-color, the costa towards apex and cilia bright 

 orange. Hindwing with the costal and inner areas pale ; the wedge-shaped 

 medial area pink with oblique postmedial line and its terminal area deeper ; 

 cilia orange. 



Habitat. — Sikhim ; Sarawak. Exp. $ 14, $ 16 mill. 



