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Mimudea Warr. A. M. N. H. (6) ix. p. 440. 

 Lepidoplarja Warr. A. M. N. H. (6) xvi. p. 475 (1896). 



Palpi porrect, triangularly scaled, the 3rd joint concealed ; 

 maxillary palpi strongly dilated with scales at extremity ; frons 

 rounded ; antenn?e of male usually miuutely ciliated. Fore wing 

 with vein 3 from before angle of cell ; 4, 5 from angle ; 7 straight 

 and well separated from 8, 9. Hind wing with the cell short ; 

 vein 3 from angle ; 4, 5 approximated for a short distance ; 6, 7 

 stalked ; 7 anastomosing with 8. 



Fig. 146. 



Pionea ferrugaUs, S ■ \- (Froii^Moths Ind. vol. iv.) 



Sect. I. (Lepidoplaga). Fore wing of male with the retinaculum 

 consisting of a fan of large scales. 

 A. Fore wing of male with a fan of large scales beyond upper 

 angle of cell at bases of veins 6, 7. 

 a. Fore wing of male with the fans of scales showing above 

 as small dark foveas. 



(l)tPio]!fEA FLAVOFiMBEiATA Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 208. 



N.E. India ; Ceylon. 

 Crocidopliora jiavicinctalis Snell. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1890, p. 595. 

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

 „ elongalis Warr. A. M. N. H. (6) xviii. p. 108. 



(2)*Pio]s"EA FUSCizoNALis Hmpsn. Moths Ind. iv. p. 428. Sikhim. 



h. Fore wing of male with no foveas on upperside. 



(3) PiONEA phq:nicistis Hmpsn. Moths Ind. iv. p. 428. 



N.E. India ; Burma. 



B. Fore wing of male with large hyaline fovea beyond upper 

 angle of cell, vein 7 carved down round it. 



(4)tPiowEA THTRiPHOEA, n. sp. (1898, Plate L. fig. 26.) 



Bright oi-ange ; palpi white at base ; pectus and ventral surface 

 of abdomen whitish. Fore wing with the costal area suffused with 

 purplish brown ; the terminal area purplish. Hind wing « ith the 

 costal and inner areas whitish ; a purplish band on terminal area 

 from costa to vein 2. 



Hah. Castro Parana, Brazil {Jones). Exp. 26 mm. 



