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it from which arises a minutely waved line sharply retracted along 

 vein 2. Hind wing with antemedial dark line angled on median 

 nervure ; a postmedial line highly angled at vein 2, along which it 

 is sharply retracted ; both wings with the cilia black at base, pure 

 white at tips. 



Hab. Nilgiris ; Andainans ; Borneo. Exp. 20 inillim. 



B. Hind tibice of male with the outer medial spur minute. 

 a. Fore iving of male ivith no fans of scales beloiu. 



5214. Pionea gracilis, Warr. P. Z. S. 1888, p. 334 (nee Samea ffracilis, 



utl.); C. $ S. no. 4245. 



c? . Head, thorax, and fore wing whitish, suffused with ochreous 

 and brown ; the last with highly waved antemedial line ; a large 

 elliptical stigma in cell and very large irregularly reniform disco- 

 cellular stigma, each with dark edge and pale fuscous centre ; some 

 ferruginous scales below the costa and on the veins beyond the cell ; 

 a minutely dentate obliquely curved submarginal line ; a series of 

 dark specks on the margin. Abdomen and hind wing pure white, 

 the latter with dark cell-spot and indistinct curved postmedial line 

 on underside. 



Hob. Thandiani, Punjab. Exp. 22 millim. 



5215. Pionea nigrostigmalis, Warr. A. M. N. H. (6) xvii. p. 96. 



Eeddish brown ; palpi white below ; abdomen ringed with white. 

 Fore wing with indistinct obliquely sinuous antemedial line ; pro- 

 minent black discocellular spot ; an indistinct minutely dentate 

 postmedial line excurved between costa and vein 3 ; some black 

 specks on costa towards apex and a marginal series. Hind wing 

 dark fuscous, with indistinct cell-speck and postmedial line ; a 

 marginal series of black specks. Underside with the costa of fore 

 wing and the hind wing whitish, the latter with prominent cell- 

 spot and highly curved postmedial line. 



Hob. Bhutan; Khasis. Exp. 18 millim. 



b. (Lepidoplaga). Fore wing of male with the retinaculum consisting 

 of a large fan of leaden-coloured scales, and another large fan 

 beyond the cell on bases of veins 6 and 7, each showing as a small 

 dark fovea on upperside. 



5216. Pionea flavofimliriata, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 208 ; C. $ S. no. 4255. 

 Crocidophora flavicinctalis, Snell. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1890, p. 595. 

 Lepidoplaga longicorpus, Warr. A. M. N. H. (6) xviii, p. 108. 

 Lepidoplaga elongalis, Warr. A. M. N. If. (6) xviii, p. 108. 



c? . Head, thorax, and abdomen brown ; palpi rufous, white below. 

 Pore wing fuscous ; the costal and outer margins ochreous, diffused 

 at apex ; faint traces of an antemedial line, a discocellular spot, 

 and postmedial line minutely waved and bent outwards between 

 veins 5 and 2, along which it is slightly retracted ; cilia ochreous. 



