pionea. 425 



retracted at vein 2 to lower angle of cell ; a dentate submarginal 

 line slightly bent inwards at vein 2. 

 Hob. Sikhim. Exp. 30 millim. 



5207. Pionea leucanalis, Swinh. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1890, p. 276, pi. 8, 



fig. 15. 



$ . Head and thorax clothed with pink and orange scales ; palpi 

 white below. Fore wing orange, the veins with broad diffused 

 pink fasciae covering the greater part of the wing ; the costal area 

 fulvous, the costa white towards base ; an obscure dark dentate 

 oblique postmedial line reaching the inner margin before the middle ; 

 cilia with two pink lines through them. Hind wing light yellow, 

 with pink marginal line. 



Hab. Khasis ; Eangoon. Exp. 24 millim. 



Sect. II. {Pionea). Mid tibiae of male not dilated. 



A. Hind tibice of male with the outer medial spur half the 

 length of inner. 



5208. Pionea forficalis, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. 2, p. 882 ; Dup. Lip. Fr. 



viii, pi. 219, fig. 6; C. $ S. no, 4172. 



Brownish ochreous ; palpi white below ; abdomen pale. Pore 

 wing slightly suffused with rufous and with the veins rufous ; a 

 brown antemedial line dentate on subcostal and median nervures, 

 then inwardly oblique and slightly waved ; two conjoined spots at 

 angles of cell with dark outlines and grey centres ; a postmedial line 

 dentate on veins 8 and 7, then inwardly oblique and slightly 

 sinuous ; an oblique streak from the apex and minutely waved 

 submarginal line ; a waved marginal line and line through the cilia. 

 Hind wing pale, with curved minutely waved postmedial and 

 marginal lines. 



Hob. Europe; Japan; N.W. Himalayas; Sikhim. Exp. 30 millim. 



5209. Pionea nobilis, Moore, Lep. Ath. p. 224, pi. 7, fig. 29 ; C. § S. 



no. 4173. 



6 . Pale ochreous ; head and thorax fuscous black and ochreous ; 

 palpi black, white below. Pore wing with the basal area and basal 

 half of costa suffused with fuscous; a black spot in cell and disco- 

 cellular lunule with a small fuscous mark beyond it ; a fuscous striga 

 below origin of vein 2 ; a wedge-shaped black submarginal band 

 enclosing an ochreous spot on costa, its apex on inner margin. 

 Hind wing with discocellular speck ; a very indistinct postmedial 

 minutely dentate line bent outwards between veins 5 and 2 ; some 

 slight fuscous marks on apical part of margin. 



Hob. Sikhim. Exp. 28 millim. 



5210. Pionea fentoni, Butt. Trans. Ent. Soc 1881, p. 587. 

 Botys effusalis, Snell. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1890, p. 577 (nee Wlk.). 



Ochreous ; palpi fuscous, white below ; fore legs banded with 

 fuscous; thorax and abdomen marked with fuscous. Fore wing 



