Moths . kestan ; Punjab; Deccan;Australia. Palpi porrect and triangularly scaled, the 3rd joint hidden byhair ; maxillary palpi dilated with scales ; proboscis small; fronswith a large rounded prominence; antenna? nearly simple; tibiaewith the spurs equal. Pore wing rather long and narrow ; vein 3from well before angle of cell; 10 well separated from 8, 9. Hindwing with vein 3 from near angle of cell; 5 from above the angle;6, 7 from upper angle, 7 anastomosing with 8. 5197. Metasia sabulosalis, Warr. A. M. N. H. (6) xviii, p. 217. 6 . Yellow-brown mixed with white scales ; palpi fuscous. Pore
Moths . kestan ; Punjab; Deccan;Australia. Palpi porrect and triangularly scaled, the 3rd joint hidden byhair ; maxillary palpi dilated with scales ; proboscis small; fronswith a large rounded prominence; antenna? nearly simple; tibiaewith the spurs equal. Pore wing rather long and narrow ; vein 3from well before angle of cell; 10 well separated from 8, 9. Hindwing with vein 3 from near angle of cell; 5 from above the angle;6, 7 from upper angle, 7 anastomosing with 8. 5197. Metasia sabulosalis, Warr. A. M. N. H. (6) xviii, p. 217. 6 . Yellow-brown mixed with white scales ; palpi fuscous. Porewing with fuscous streak below basal half of costa; an antemedialfuscous line ; a discocellular speck ; a dark postmedial line nearlystraight from costa to vein 2, along which it is retracted to lowerangle of cell. Hind wing with postmedial line bent outwardsbetween veins 5 and 2; both wings with dark marginal line and aline through the cilia. 5 more ochreous. Hab. Punjab; Poona. Exp., S 12, $ 18 422 ptealid^:. 5198. Metasia monialis, Ersch, BLor. Soe. Ent. Ross, viii, p. 317; id. Fedtschenko, Heise Tu7-k. p. 78, pi. 5, fig. 83. Grey-brown; abdomen sometimes with some black on dorsum. Fore wing very closely mottledwith fine specks ; some whitenear base ; two medial greyish-white lines; a series of pale-edged black spots from beyondupper angle of cell to innermargin, incurved at vein 4 ; aFig. 233.—Metasia monialis, g. \. submarginal white line excurved from costa to vein 4 and broad-est at costa ; a white striga just inside the margin from costa andanother below middle. Underside white; both wings withcurved brown postmedial line. Hob. Turkestan; Campbellpur, Punjab. Exp. 26 millim. Genus PIONEA. Pionea, Guen. Belt. $ Pyr. p. 367 (1854). Udea, Guen. Belt. <§• Pyr. p. 398. Pseudebulea, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1881, p. 587. Lepidoplaga, Warr. A. M. N. H. (6) xvi, p. 475 (1895). Type, P. forflcalis, Linn. Range. Universally distributed. Palpi porrect and triangular
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