. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. PEOCEIOSIS. 711 Geuus PEOCRIOSIS, nov. Type, P. dileuca. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely porrect, short; frons with large truncate conical prominence with raised edges and small process in centre, a corneous plate below it; eyes large, round; antenn£e of female almost simple; thorax clothed almost entirely with scales, the protliorax without crest, the metathorax with depressed crest; tibite smoothly scaled ; abdomen without crests. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and not crenulate ; vein
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. PEOCEIOSIS. 711 Geuus PEOCRIOSIS, nov. Type, P. dileuca. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely porrect, short; frons with large truncate conical prominence with raised edges and small process in centre, a corneous plate below it; eyes large, round; antenn£e of female almost simple; thorax clothed almost entirely with scales, the protliorax without crest, the metathorax with depressed crest; tibite smoothly scaled ; abdomen without crests. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and not crenulate ; veins 3 and 6 from near angle of cell; 6 from below upper angle ; 7, 8, 9 stalked ; 10, 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 nearly fully developed from below middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell to near middle. 6075. Procriosis dileuca, n. sp. 2 . Head, thorax, and abdomen yellowish white mixed with grey-brown, the head rather darker; pectus and legs white, the tarsi brownish ringed with white, the ventral surface of abdomen white. Fore wing with the basal half yellowish white suffused with grey leaving a white patch beyond the antemedial line from cell to inner margin ; the outer half olive-brown tinged with purplish grey; traces of a double subbasal line from costa to sub- median fold and of a double waved antemedial line ; a small white spot at upper angle of cell; a triangular postmedial yellowish white patch on costa, the very indistinct dark postmedial line. Fig. 202.—Procriosis dileuca, $. [. arising from its apex, strongly bent inwards below vein 4 and oblique to inner margin ; faint traces of a pale aubterminal line excurved below vein 7 and at middle, with a slight dark streak before it below costa and dark points at middle ; a terminal series of slight dark points. Hind wing yellowish white almost wholly suffused with red-brown, the cilia yellowish white mixed with some red-brown; the underside yell
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