MICRIANTHA. — PA.NEMEEIA. 



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area black ; a black-brown terminal band, its inner edge excurved 

 at middle; cilia brown, white at tips. Underside of fore wing 

 black-brown with the medial area whitish enclosing a black dis- 

 coidal spot, the costal and terminal areas towards apex pink leaving 



Fig. 232. — Micriantha decorata, tf . \. 



some brown on costa ; hind wing yellow, the base black, the costal 

 area pink except at base, the terminal area pink with black patch 

 at tornus extending on its inner edge to vein 4. 



Hob. Asia Minor, Pontus, Bithynia, Lydia, Taurus. Exp. 

 20 millim. 



Genus PANEMERIA. 



Type. 



Panemeria, Hiibn. Verz. p. 262 (1827) tenehrata. 



Heliaca, Herr.-Schiiff. Sclimett. Eur. ii. p. 370 (1852) tenehrata. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi porrect, extending to just beyond frons and 

 fringed witb long hair below ; frons rounded ; eyes small, reniform ; antennas 

 ciliated ; thorax clothed with rough hair and without crests ; tibise moderately 

 fringed with hair; abdomen without crests. Fore wing with -the apex some- 

 what produced, the termen evenly curved and not crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 

 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anaslomosing with 8 

 to form a minute areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle 

 of cell ; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 

 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



A. Hind wing with the medial band deep orange and very 



broad jocosa. 



B. Hind wing with the medial band yellow and m uch narrower. . . tcnebata. 



4976. Panemeria jocosa. (Plate CXLVII. fig. 15.) 



Anarta. jocosa, Zell. Isis, 1847, p. 450 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 220. 

 Heliodes arbutoides, Bell. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1860, p. 694. 



3 . Head and thorax black mixed with yellow hair; antennae 

 and tarsi ringed with yellow ; abdomen black irrorated with yellow 

 and with yellow segmental rings. Fore wing whitish mixed with 

 red-brown, the inner area rather darker, the terminal area red- 

 brown, narrowing to a point at tornus and slightly irrorated with 

 white towards apex ; a curved red-brown antemedial line ; a 

 diffused medial red-brown band curved inwards to costa ; postmedial 

 line red-brown, excurved to vein 4, then incurved, a pale striga 

 beyond it from costa ; subterminal line yellow-brown defined by 

 red-brown on inner side, excurved below vein 7 and at middle ; 



