422 ptealid^:. 



5198. Metasia monialis, Ersch, BLor. Soe. Ent. Ross, viii, p. 317; id. 



Fedtschenko, Heise Tu7-k. p. 78, pi. 5, fig. 83. 



Grey-brown; abdomen sometimes with some black on dorsum. 



Fore wing very closely mottled 

 with fine specks ; some white 

 near base ; two medial greyish- 

 white lines; a series of pale- 

 edged black spots from beyond 

 upper angle of cell to inner 

 margin, incurved at vein 4 ; a 

 Fig. 233.— Metasia monialis, g . \. submarginal white line excurved 



from costa to vein 4 and broad- 

 est at costa ; a white striga just inside the margin from costa and 

 another below middle. "Underside white; both wings with 

 curved brown postmedial line. 



Hob. Turkestan ; Campbellpur, Punjab. Exp. 26 millim. 



Genus PIONEA. 



Pionea, Guen. Belt. $ Pyr. p. 367 (1854). 



Udea, Guen. Belt. <§• Pyr. p. 398. 



Pseudebulea, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1881, p. 587. 



Lepidoplaga, Warr. A. M. N. H. (6) xvi, p. 475 (1895). 



Type, P. forflcalis, Linn. 



Range. Universally distributed. 



Palpi porrect and triangularly scaled, the 3rd joint hidden by 

 hair ; maxillary palpi dilated with scales at extremity ; frons 

 rounded; antennas of male minutely ciliated; tibiae with the outer 

 spurs short. Pore wing with the apex somewhat produced ; vein 

 3 from well before angle of cell ; 4, 5 from angle ; 10 closely 

 approximated to 8, 9. Hind wing with the cell short ; vein 3 from 

 angle of cell ; 4, 5 closely approximated for a short distance ; 6, 7 

 stalked, 7 anastomosing strongly with 8. 



Sect. I. {Udea). Mid tibiae dilated with a groove containing a tuft 



of hair. 



A. Antennas of male somewhat thickened and flattened ; hind tibial 

 with the outer medial spur minute. 



5199. Pionea ferrugalis, Hilbn. Samml. eur. Schmett., Pyr. figs. 54, 150 - T 

 C. Sr S. no. 4149. 

 Scopula martialis, Guen. Belt. <§• Pyr. p. 398. 

 Scopula hypatialis, Wlk. Cat. xix, p. 1014 ; C. fy S. no. 4151. 

 Scopula testacea, Butl. III. Bet. iii, p. 77, pi. 59, fig. 15. 



Pulvous yellow, more or less suffused with fuscous ; palpi white 

 below at base ; frons white at sides. Pore wing with waved fus- 

 cous antemedial line ; an orbicular spot in cell and larger oval 

 discoceilular mark, each being usually filled in with fuscous ; a- 



