10 Sir G. F. Hampson on new 



Head and thorax pale red-brown ; palpi white below ; 

 legs pale red-brown ; pectus and abdomen brownish white. 

 Fore wing white tinged with pale red-brown, especially on 

 costal area; a minute black point in middle of cell and dis- 

 coidal point just above lower angle of cell ; a terminal series 

 of minute black points. Hind wing white faintly tinged 

 with red-brown ; a terminal series of minute black points. 



Hab. Chili, Mulchen (Elwes), 1 £, 1 ? type. Exp. 

 22 mm. 



(34 c) Pionea melanephra, sp. n. 



? . Head, thorax, and abdomen ochreous ; palpi black 

 below ; antennae brownish ; fore tibiae with black baud 

 at extremity, the tarsi banded with blackish. Fore wing 

 ochreous, irrorated with a few blackish scales ; an indistinct 

 sinuous dark antemedial line ; a faint brown annulus in 

 middle of cell and prominent black discoidal lunule with 

 slight brown striga in centre, a black point above it on 

 costa ; postmedial line with black spot at costa, then slight 

 and with series of black points on it, incurved and with 

 small black spot at discal fold, below vein 4 bent inwards to 

 below end of cell, then again excurved ; the terminal area, 

 suffused with rufous ; a series of black points on costa to- 

 wards apex and on termen. Hind wing creamy white, the 

 terminal area tinged with rufous from costa to vein 2; a 

 small black spot at upper angle of cell and point at lower 

 angle ; a terminal series of points from apex to vein 2 ; the 

 underside with postmedial series of small black spots excurved 

 between veins 4 and 2. 



Hab. W. Colombia, San Antonio {Palmer), 1 ? type. 

 Exp. 24 mm. 



(35 b) Pionea chalcitalis, sp. n. 



g . Head and thorax cupreous yellow almost entirely 

 suffused with black ; palpi whitish at base ; legs yellow 

 marked with black ; abdomen whitish tinged with cupreous 

 and dorsally suffused with black forming diffused bands 

 except at base. Fore wing cupreous yellow suffused with 

 black except at base of inner margin, on medial costal area, 

 and terminal area; a triangular yellow antemedial patch 

 from costa with indistinct diffused black line from it to 

 inner margin ; a small round white spot defined by black in 

 upper angle of cell connected Avith the yellow costal area ; 

 a triangular postmedial yellow patch from costa with three 

 white points below it, a diffused black patch beyond them 



