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with the basal half suffused with fuscous, sometimes with a reddish 

 tinge ; a subbasal ochreous line from cell to inner margin ; hyaline 

 spots in middle and end of cell ; a large ochreous patch beyond cell 

 extending along costa towards base and bounded by the postmedial 

 line, which is straight from costa to vein 2, then retracted to angle 

 of cell and defined by ochreous bands inside and beyond it, the area 

 beyond it more or less fuscous, with ochreous patches on costa and 

 on margin expanding towards outer angle, often becoming the 

 prevailing colour ; a marginal series of dark specks. Hind wing 

 ochreous, with discocellular speck ; a postraedial line nearly straight 

 from costa to vein 2, then retracted to below angle of cell and 

 waved ; an apical fuscous patch and slight mark at anal angle. 



Hob. Japan ; Simla ; Sikhim ; Nilgiris ; Tenasserim. Exp. 

 30 millim. 



5211. Pionea ablactalis, Wlk. Cat. xviii, p. 660; Hmpsn. Ill Het. ix, 



pi. 172, fig. 6 ; C.$S. no. 4082. 



Botys murinalis, Pagenst. Jahrb. Nnssauisch. Ver. fur Nat. 1885, 

 p!55. 



Greenish grey. Fore wing with slightly oblique antemedial dark 

 line; a dark discocellular line; a postmedial line nearly straight 

 from costa to vein 3, then retracted to vein 2 and sinuous to inner 

 margin. Hind wing with discocellular line ; a postmedial line 

 excurved between veins 6 and 3 ; both wings with marginal black 

 line ; the cilia pure white. 



Hob. Sikhim ; Poona ; Nilgtris ; Ceylon ; Burma ; Borneo ; 

 Celebes ; Sumbawa. Exp. 26-30 millim. 



5212. Pionea brevialis, Wlk. Cat. xviii, p. 759; Hmpsn. III. Het.ix, 



pi. 173, fig. 15 ; C. $ S. no. 4171. 

 Botys divisalis, Led. Wien. ent. Mon. 1863, p. 468, pi. 10, fig. 4 ; 



C. 8f S. no. 4053. 

 Udea eximialis, Wlk. Cat. xxxiv, p. 1471 ; C. Sf S. no. 4148. 



Varies from bright orange-yellow to fulvous yellow ; palpi white 

 below at base. Fore wing either uniform, or with a more or less 

 prominent outwardly-oblique sinuous antemedial line and post- 

 medial waved line highly angled at vein 5, sometimes with a 

 large fuscous discal patch in the angle ; cilia black at base, pure 

 white at tips. Hind wing uniform and slightly paler. 



Hob. Dharmstila ; Nagas ; Nilgiris ; Ceylon ; Jones Island, 

 N. Australia. Exp. 22 millim. 



5213. Pionea castoralis, Wlk. Cat. xviii, p. 693. 



Samea purpurascens, Moore, P. Z. S. 1877, p. 615 ; C.fyS. no. 4248. 



$ . Pale fulvous suffused with fuscous ; palpi blackish, white 

 above and below ; frons whitish ; abdomen ringed with white, the 

 anal tuft white tipped with fulvous. Fore wing with erect dark 

 antemedial line, with white dark-edged spot before it in the cell 

 and larger spot beyond it ; a postmedial white speck on costa and 

 another before apex with a dark-edged tridentate white spot below 



