. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. ArHouioni:*.â p\n.\!T\. 281 Ah. 1. Head, thorax, and basal luilf of lore wing with the ground-colour pale oclireous. Ab. 2. Fore wing with black fascia above and below median nervure and sinuous black streak above vein 1 between ante- and j)0stmedial lines. Ab. 3. Fore wing suffused with black to subterminal line, the inner area rufous, the costal area pale ochreous to postmedial line. Huh. Peru, Carabaya, {Ocl-enden), 1^,1$, Quinton, Exp. 40 millim. Type t in Coll, Druce. Genus PARACRORIA, nov. Type, P. griseoc
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. ArHouioni:*.â p\n.\!T\. 281 Ah. 1. Head, thorax, and basal luilf of lore wing with the ground-colour pale oclireous. Ab. 2. Fore wing with black fascia above and below median nervure and sinuous black streak above vein 1 between ante- and j)0stmedial lines. Ab. 3. Fore wing suffused with black to subterminal line, the inner area rufous, the costal area pale ochreous to postmedial line. Huh. Peru, Carabaya, {Ocl-enden), 1^,1$, Quinton, Exp. 40 millim. Type t in Coll, Druce. Genus PARACRORIA, nov. Type, P. griseocimfa. Proboscis fully de\eloped; palpi iipdiriied, the 2ncl joint reaching to about middle of frons and moderately scaled, llie 3rd short; frons with large corneous prominence with raised edges; eyes large, round ; antenn;!; of female somewhat laminate and almost simple; thorax clothed almost entirely with scales and with broad dorsal ridge of rough scales; tibiie moderately fringed with Jiair ; abdomen without crests. Fore wing with the a))ex round.'d, the termen evenly curved, crenulate, the inner margin with scale- tooth at middle; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; fi from upper anele ; \) from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 fr-om angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from well below middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell near ba-iC only. 3893. Paracroria griseocincta. Xanfhojjlcra f/rlseocincfo, Hmpsn. Ann. S. Afr. Mus. ii. ji. 3'.16(ir)02). $. Head and thorax ochreous tinged with rufous, the latter â with grey dorsal fascia, the tegulae and patagia above edged with rufous ; abdomen ochreous. Fore wing ochreous tinged with rufous, the basal area somewhat browner, the terminal area grey ; suhbasal line represented by a curved rufous striga from costa ; antemedial line rufous, strongly below costa and in submedian inter- space, incurved in cell; orbicular and rcniform with fain
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