. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. ACKORIODE?. PAEACEOEIA. 281 Ah. 1. Head, thorax, and basal half of fore wing with the • ground-colour pale ochreous, Ab. 2. Fore wing with black fascia above and below median nervure and sinuous black streak above vein 1 between ante- and postmedial lines. Ab. 3. Fore wing suffused with black to subterrainal line, the inner area rufous, tlie costal area pale ochreous to postmedial line. Hah. Peru, Carabaya, Onconeque {Ockenden), 1 cJ , 1 $ , Quinton. Exjj. 40 millim. Type t in Coll. Druce. Genus PAEACROEIA, nov. Type, P. grhe
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. ACKORIODE?. PAEACEOEIA. 281 Ah. 1. Head, thorax, and basal half of fore wing with the • ground-colour pale ochreous, Ab. 2. Fore wing with black fascia above and below median nervure and sinuous black streak above vein 1 between ante- and postmedial lines. Ab. 3. Fore wing suffused with black to subterrainal line, the inner area rufous, tlie costal area pale ochreous to postmedial line. Hah. Peru, Carabaya, Onconeque {Ockenden), 1 cJ , 1 $ , Quinton. Exjj. 40 millim. Type t in Coll. Druce. Genus PAEACROEIA, nov. Type, P. grheocincta. Proboscis fully developed; palpi upturned, the 2ncl joint i-eaching to about middle of frons and moderately scaled, the 3rd short; frons with large corneous prominence -witli raised edges; eyes large, round ; antenna; of female somewhat laminate and almost simple; thorax clothed almost entirely with scales and with broad dorsal ridge of rough scales ; tibice moderately fringed with hair ; abdomen without crests. JFore wing with the a])ex rounded, the termen evenly curved, crenulate, the inner margin with scale- tooth at middle; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from well below middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 3893. Paracroria griseocincta. Xanlliopiera griseocincfa, Hmpsn. Ann. S. Afr. Mus. ii. p. 396(1902). 5 . Head and thorax ochreous tinged with rufous, the latter with grey dorsal fascia, the tegulae and patagia above edged with rufous ; abdomen ochreous. Fore wdng ochreous tinged with rufous, the basal area somewhat browner, the terminal area grey ; subbasal line represented by a curved rufous striga from costa ; antemedial line rufous, strongh' excurved below costa and in suhmedian inter- space, incurved in cell; orbicular and reniform with faint palo.
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