Heterocera from China, Japan, and Corea. 493 



1935. Pionea verbascalis. 



Pyralis verbascalis, Schiff., Wien. Verz., p. 121. 



Pyralis arcualis, Hiibn., Pyral., fig. 80. 



Botys egentalis, Christ., Ball. Mosc, 1881, i, p. 19. 



Botys plumbocilialis, Snell., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1890, 



p. 576. 

 Pionea verbascalis, Hampson, Fauna Brit. Ind., Moths, iv, p. 



423 (1896). 



Specimens were received from Ichang, Chang-yang, 

 Moupin, Chovv-pin-sa, and Wa-shan. Occurs in June. 



I obtained the species at Nagasaki in May, and at Fusan 

 and Gensan in June. 



Two pale specimens in Pryer's collection are referable to 

 var. egentalis, Christ., as also is one example taken by a 

 native collector at Ningpo in June. 



Distribution. Eukope. — Dharmsala; Sikhim; Nilgiris 

 {Hampson) ; Central, Eastern, and Western China ; 

 Corea ; Kiushiu; Japan. 



1936. Pionea genialis. 



Botys genialis, Leech, Entom., xxii, p. 69, pi. iii, fig. 10 

 (1889). 



I obtained specimens at Nagasaki and in Satsuma, and 

 a native collector took the species at Ningpo. May and 

 June. 



Distribution. Kiushiu ; Eastern China. 



1937. Pionea jour alis, sp. n. (Plate XV, fig. 16.) 

 Stramineous. Primaries have a dot in the cell, lunule at the end 

 of cell, and two transverse lines, ochreous brown ; the antemedial is 

 outwardly oblique, and the postmedial is indented below the costa, 

 excurved beyond the cell, projected inwards at vein 2, thence waved 

 to inner margin. Secondaries have an ochreous-brown, curved, post- 

 medial line, bent inwards and upwards between veins 2 and 1, not 

 clearly denned towards the costa or the inner margin. Under surface 

 pale ochreous suffused with fuscous ; primaries have a dusky central 

 spot, and traces of a dusky postmedial line ; the inner margin is 

 whitish. 



Expanse 27 millim. 



Four specimens from Ichang, taken in August. 



Habitat. Central China. 



Allied to P. aureolalis, Led. R. S. 



