Species o/Pyralithe. 9 



bent inwards to costa ; a blackish discoidal bar; a strong 

 oblique black postmedial line; the costa towards apex and 

 termen with series of small blaek spots. Hind wing white 

 faintly tinged with rufous ; a terminal series of small black 

 spots from apex to vein 2 ; the underside with small black 

 spots in middle of cell and on discocellulars, an oblique 

 macnlate postmedial line from costa to snbmcdian fold. 



Hub. W. Colombia, San Antonio [Palmer), 1 ? type. 

 Exp. 16 mm. 



(2 a) Pionea nephelistalis, sp. n. 



$ . Head and thorax yellow tinged with brown ; pectus 

 and legs whitish ; abdomen yellow dorsally suffused with 

 brown. Fore wing pale yellow, the medial area suffused 

 with brown except towards costa ; an inwardly oblique 

 diffused black antemedial line from cell to inner margin; 

 a black point in middle of cell and slight discoidal lunule ; 

 postmedial line formed of small wedge-shaped black marks 

 not extending to costa, excurved to vein 4, then very oblique, 

 with a diffused dark maculate band beyond it from below 

 costa to vein 3 and a patch above inner margin. Hind wing 

 pale yellow suffused with brown to beyond postmedial line 

 except on costal area which is whitish, the postmedial line 

 indistinct, pale, curved, defined on inner side by deeper 

 brown and with a diffused band beyond it ; the underside 

 pale yellowish with diffused curved brown postmedial line. 



Hab. C. China, Ichang {Mrs. Pratt), 1 ? type. Exp, 

 2(3 mm. 



(10 a) Pionea fovifera, sp. n. 



Fore wing of male with large fovea below base of cell 

 onuppersidej hind wing with the costa strongly lobed at 

 base. 



(J . Head and thorax white suffused with reddish brown ; 

 pectus, legs, and abdomen white. Fore wing white suffused 

 with reddish brown ; a slight dentate excurved blackish 

 antemedial line from below costa to beyond the fovea ; 

 a slight blackish discoidal lunule; postmedial line very 

 indistinct, blackish, minutely dentate, excurved from costa 

 to vein 4 then oblique ; a terminal series of black points. 

 Hind wing white faintly tinged with brown. 



Hab. Cuba, Santiago (Schaus), 1 $ type. Exp. 11 mm. 



(34 a) Pionea nomophilodes, sp. n. 

 Palpi about three times length of head. 



