PIONEA.— SPHECIA. 59 



daries with one irregular discal line and a discocellular spot : wings below considerably paler 

 with grey borders ; palpi ochreous ; legs silvery; anterior tibise ochreous, with a silvery spot. 

 Expanse of wings 11 lines. 

 Yokohama {Jonas). 



Allied to E. rubiginalis of Europe. 



PIONEA, Ouenee. 



Pionea sodalis, n. sp. (Plate XXXIX. fig. 4.) 



Allied to P. forficalis of Europe, but larger ; the primaries more tawny, the oblique lines 

 wider apart ; the marginal line undulated ; the fringe tawny tipped with grey, and with a central 

 grey line : secondaries with wider fringe ; a brown discal line and a slender interrupted black 

 marginal line : body darker. Expanse of wings 1 inch 3 lines. 



Yokohama {Jonas). 



CROCIDOPHORA, Lederer. 



Crocidophora pantherata, n. sp. (Plate XXXIX. fig. 10.) 



Wings above pale pinky brown, with a regular black-edged tawny submarginal belt • 

 margin slenderly black, fringe grey : primaries with outer half of the discoidal cell tawny, 

 crossed by a semihyaline black-edged pale yellowish spot ; three black spots at the base, followed 

 by a black stripe across the wing ; a bifid black spot across the internal area ; a large subapical 

 patch with a black edge, and crossed transversely by an angulated black discal stripe : secon- 

 daries with a black discoidal dot and discocellular litura ; an irregular interrupted discal black 

 line. Under surface altogether pale greyish, Expanse of wings 1 inch 1 line. 



Yokohama {Jonas). 



SPHECIA, Hiion. 



Sphecia contaminata, n. sp. (Plate XL. fig. 2.) 



Wings hyaline, slightly tinted with testaceous, veins and borders black ; primaries with 

 the costal and inner margins and discocellular spot streaked with red ; secondaries with a yellow 

 discocellular spot : body black ; frons white ; palpi, collar, a spot on each shoulder, a crescent - 

 like line on the metathorax, a broad band across the abdomen, and the edge of the basal segment 



* This family is connected with the Pyrales through Arauzona, Acridura, and Erilusa, and with the 

 Tineites through Tinageria and Exodomorpha. 



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