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Show 1899. J OF THE SUBFAMILY PYRAUSTINiE. 243 (24) PIONEA FERRUGALIS Hiibn. Schmett. Eur., Pyr. ff. 54, 150. Europe; W.Asia; Madeira; W . & S.Africa; Scopula martialis Guen. Delt. & Pyr. Japan ; Afghanistan ; p. 398. India; Ceylon; „ hypatialis Wlk. xix. 1014. Burma. f „ testacea Butl. 111. Het. iii. p. 77, pi. 59. f. 15. (25)*PIONEA OCTONALIS Snell. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1890, p. 581. N.E. India. (26)fPIONEA RENALIS Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 224. Sikhim. (27)fPioNEA DELINEATALIS Wlk., Melliss's St. Helena, p. 189. St. Helena. (28) PIONEA ELUTALIS Schiff. Wien. Verz. p. 121. Europe. Pyralis albidalis Hiibn. Pyr. f. 118. (29) PIONEA SILVALIS Joannis, Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1891, p. lxxxii; Mab. & Vuill. pi. xviii. f. 9. Syria. (30)fPlONEA SCOPARIALIS, 11. Sp. 3. Head and thorax dark olive-brown aud grey; abdomen grey-white. Fore wing grey-white, thickly irrorated and suffused with grey-broAvn to beyond middle and on terminal area, leaving a slightly irrorated broad postmedial Avhitish band; an obscure antemedial waved white line curled outwards and forming a hook above inner margin ; the orbicular and reniform very large, defined by black, and Avith black centres ; a postmedial dark speck on costa, followed by an obliquely curved minutely-waved line; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing Avhite, with black points at the two angles of cell; an indistinct curved postmedial line ; an apical fuscous patch extending more or less to vein 2 ; a terminal series of black points; underside suffused with fuscous, with the post-medial line prominent and maculate. Hab. Tibet, Yatong, 10,500 feet (Hobson). Exp. 24 mm. (31) PIONEA PRUNALIS Schiff. Wien. Verz. p. 121. Europe. Pyralis leucophwalis Hiibn. Pyr. f. 77. ,, nebulalis HaAv. Lep. Brit. p. 386. (32) PIONEA SCORIALIS Zell. Isis, 1847, p. 566. Sicily. (33) PIONEA SOBRINALIS Guen. Delt. & Pyr. p. 360. Brazil. Ebulea ialis Wlk. xix. 1009. (34)fPlONEA FUSCULALIS, n. Sp. Head and thorax brown ; abdomen fuscous, with whitish segmental lines ; palpi at base, pectus, and ventral surface of abdomen Avhitish. Fore wing brown; an antemedial waved black line obtusely angled belowr cell; a discoidal black lunule; a postmedial minutely-dentate black line excurved to vein 2, below which it is angled inwards almost to the cell, then bent outwards again. Hind 16* |