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Show 240 SIR G. F. HAMPSON-REVISION OF MOTHS [Feb. 21, Mimudea AVarr. A. M. N. H. (6) ix. p. 440. Lepidoplaga Warr. A. M . N. H. (6) xvi. p. 475 (1896). Palpi porrect, triangularly scaled, the 3rd joint concealed; maxillary palpi strongly dilated with scales at extremity; frons rounded; antennae of male usually minutely ciliated. Fore wing with vein 3 from before angle of cell; 4, 5 from angle ; 7 straight and well separated from 8, 9. Hind wing with the cell short; vein 3 from angle; 4, 5 approximated for a short distance; 6, 7 stalked ; 7 anastomosing Avith 8. Fig. 146. Pionea ferrugalis, 3. \. (From Moths Ind. vol. iv.) SECT. I. (Lepidoplaga). Fore wing of male with the retinaculum consisting of a fan of large scales. A. Fore wing of male with a fan of large scales beyond upper angle of cell at bases of veins 6, 7. a. Fore wing of male with the fans of scales showing above as small dark foveas. (l)fPiONEA FLAVOFIMBRIATA Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 208. N.E. India; Ceylon. Crocidophora fiavicinctalis Snell. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1890, p. 595. Lepidoplaga longicorpus Warr. A. M. N. H. (6) xviii. p. 108. „ elongalis AVarr. A. M. N. H. (6) xviii. p. 108. (2)*PIONEA FUSCIZONALIS Hmpsn. Moths Ind. iv. p. 428. Sikhim. b. Fore wing of male with no foveas on upperside. (3) PIONEA PHCENICISTIS Hmpsn. Moths Ind. iv. p. 428. N.E. India; Burma. B. Fore wing of male with large hyaline fovea beyond upper angle of cell, vein 7 curved down round it. (4)tPIONEA THYRIPHORA, n. sp. (1898, Plate L. fig. 26.) Bright orange ; palpi white at base ; pectus and ventral surface of abdomen whitish. Fore wing with the costal area suffused with purplish brown; the terminal area purplish. Hind wing with the costal and inner areas whitish; a purplish band on terminal area from costa to Arein 2. Hab. Castro Parana, Brazil (Jones). Exp. 26 mm. |