LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 757 



lines brown, parallel, oblique, slightly undulating; reniform mark 

 forming a large irregular brown ringlet, which is intersected by the 

 interior line ; marginal line brown, distinct. Hind wings white, 

 with a brown marginal line and an incomplete submarginal Hue. 

 Length of the body 4— A\ lines; of the wings 10—11 lines. 



a, b. United States. Presented by E. Doubleday, Esq. 

 c— g. Nova Scotia. From Lieut. Redman's collection. 



10. PlONEA SCRIPTUKALIS. 



Pallide lutescens, gracilis, subtus alba ; palpi fusci, brevissimi, 

 subtus apiceque albi ; thoracis latera antica fusca; abdomen 

 alas posticus longe superans ; pedes antici nigro fasciati ; aUc 

 elongate, linea marginali nigra ; antica? subfalcala, postice 

 nigro-fusca, lineis quatuor denticulatis, orbiculari et rent- 

 formi e unnulis duobus magnis apud medium coarctatis an- 

 naloque posteriore nigris, maculis disealibus albis hyalinis ; 

 posticus disco nigro-fusco, costa alba, macula alba annuloque 

 nigro incompleto disealibus incompletis, lineis duabus exte- 

 rioribus nigris denticulatis approximatis parallelis. 



Pionea scripturalis, Guen. Delt. et Pyral. 373, 466. 



a, b. Orilla, West Canada. From Mr. Bush's collection. 



c. United States. Presented by E. Doubleday, Esq. 



d. Para. From Mr. Lamb's collection. 



11. PlONEA HELVALIS. 



Foem. Pallide cervina ; palpi porrecti, obscuriores, articulo 2o 



obteiso,3o minuto longi-conico ; ala albido-cinerea, latiusculce, 



fimbria longa plena ; antica? vix acuta, cervino conspersa, 



lineis cervinis valde denticulatis, hac flexa, punctis margina- 



libus cercinis, reniformi cervina obliqua vacua sublunulata ; 



posticce lineis interiore et exteriore fuscescentibus denticulatis 



indistinctis. 



Female. Pale fawn-colour, slender. Palpi porrect, darker 



than the body, white beneath, not long nor rostriform ; second joint 



obtuse; third minute, elongate-conical, not more than one-fourth of 



the length of the second. Abdomen whitish. Wings whitish 



cinereous, rather broad ; fringe long and full. Fore wings hardly 



acute, speckled with fawn-colour, and especially so at the base and 



