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THE ANNALS 
AND 
MAGAZINE OF NATURAL HISTORY. 
[NINTH SERIES. ] 
No. 14. FEBRUARY 1919, 
XIIL.— New and insufficiently-known Moths in the Joicey 
Collection. By Lovis B. Provr, F.E.S. 
In the following descriptions it is to be assumed that all 
the types, paratypes, etc., euumerated are in the collection 
of J. J. Joicey, Ksq., unless otherwise specified. 
In working out the Noctuidz, subfamily Catocaline, which 
form the great bulk of the paper, [ am very largely indebted 
to my sister Miss A. E. Prout, who is at present arranging 
this family in Mr. Joicey’s collection. Sir George F. 
Hampson has also kindly given his advice on some points. 
Family Arctiidae. 
Subfamily Lirvoszrvz. 
1. Chionema gonypetes, sp. 0. 
6 .— 38-40 mm. 
Head white, face narrowly red below, palpus and post- 
orbital rim red. Collar orange-red. ‘Thorax white ; patagia 
and tegule edged with red. Legs partly white (becoming 
yellowish on tarsi), partly orange-red. Abdomen orange, 
beneath white. 
Fore wing with the lobes of underside formed about as in 
conclusa, Walk. (not quite so broad as in aviologa, Swinh., 
and perornata, Walk.), the proximal elongate, the distal 
circular, some rough orange-red hair-scales behind the 
proximal ; above white, costal edge very narrowly red to 
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