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Show 899.] OF T H E SUBFAMILY PYRAUSTIN^E. 241 (5)tPIONEA ECTOXANTHIA, n. sp. 3. Head, thorax, and abdomen pale brown ; palpi white at base; sides of frons with white lines. Fore Aving purplish, with flesh-coloured patches on inner area at base and beyond middle; the terminal area orange except on costa, widening from tornus to below costa. Hind wing Avhitish ; the termen yellowish, with faint fuscous band before it. Hab. Castro Parana, Brazil (Jones). Exp. 22 mm. c. Fore wing of male with no fan of scales or fovea beyond upper angle of cell. (6)*PIONEA FLAVICILIALIS Snell. Trans. Eut. Soc. 1890, p. 596, pi. xx. ff. 5, 5 a. Sikhim. (7)tPlONEA CLAYIFERA, n. sp. 3. Head and thorax fuscous brown; abdomen paler. Fore wing with the fovea below base of cell, forming a large pouch on upperside with fan of scales above it; colour fuscous bt'OAvn mixed with ochreous ; the antemedial line represented by an oblique series of black points; black points at angles of cell and one above them on costa; the postmedial line arising from black point on costa, minutely waved and highly excurved from costa to vein 2, its outer edge defined by ochreous ; a terminal series of points. Hind wing paler brown, with terminal series of minute dark points. 2 with black claviform mark below cell of fore wing on outer edge of antemedial line; one specimen has the antemedial line defined by diffused white on inner side and the postmedial line placed on a diffused white area. Hab. Australia, Peak DoAvns, Cooktown. Exp. 22 mm. SECT. II. Fore wing of male Avith a large tuft of hair beyond upper angle of cell below. (8) PIONEA NYPSIUSALIS Wlk. xix. 924. Borneo. SECT. III. (Perispasta). Fore wing of male with a very large elongate hyaline fovea beyond upper angle above. (9) PIONEA CCECULALIS Zell. Verh. z.-b. Ver. Wien, 1875, p. 331, pi. 10. f. 46 a. U.S.A, fPerisqiasta immixtalis Grote, Can. Ent. xiii. p. 232. „ immaculalis Grote, Smith's List Lep. Bor.-Am. p. 80. SECT. IV. Fore wing of male with foveas beloAv middle and in end of cell; hind tibiae with the outer medial spur minute. (10)*PIONEA PRAXITALIS Druce, Biol.-Centr. Am., Het. ii. p. 205, pi. 60. f. 17. Mexico; Centr. Amer. PROC. ZOOL. Soc-1899, No. XVI. 16 |
