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PROPIRA, n. n., Drnt. 
(xpéweipa=a previous attempt.) 
=*Coumoruita (Hb., p.; Meyr., p.) Busck—(nec Stph.). 
Type: Tortrix schreibersiana Fro]. 
=*Comuopuiza (p.) Hb. Verz. Schm. 392 sp. 8811 (1826); (p.) Meyr. HB. Br. Lp. 544, 555-6 
no. 5 sp. 2-3 (1895) ; Buseck Jr. NY. Ent. Soc. 15 19, 20, 21, 30-1 (1907). 
Meyrick adopted *Commophila Hb. for schreibersiana Frél.(*/ediana Hb. 151), 
associating with this species amandana HS., and rugosana Hb. Busck recognised that 
rugosana differed from the other species in FW: 11 being strongly approximate to 10, 
the internal radius arising between 11-12 (instead of between 11-10), 11 being about 
midway between 10-12; he therefore replaced rugosana Hb. in Phtheochroa Stph., 
and used *Commophila for the other species. Fernald [Gn. Tortr. 16, 54 (1908)] 
points out that Stephens restricted the usage of Commophila Hb. to aeneana Hb. 
[ARGYROLEPIA Stph. (B. Commopuita Hb.) Stph. IL. Br. Ent. Haust. 4 176-7 no. 207 B. 
sp. 3-4 (1834), 420 no. 1153 sp. 8812 (1835)] and cited aeneana Hb. definitely as the 
Type—a new genonym is therefore required for *Commophila (Hb.) Busck, nec Stph. 
Drnt. 
1. Propira albiceps, sp. n. 
Antennae biciliate 1; whitish ochreous. Palpi projecting the length of the head beyond it; white. Head 
and Thorax white. Forewings white, overspread across the middle and on the apical portion by an 
extensive light olive-brown shade, leaving the white ground-colour only in a basal patch (of which the 
outer margin is oblique, extending one-fifth along the dorsum and one-third along the costa, where it 
contains a slight greyish shade towards the base), and in a costal patch beyond the middle; this olive- 
brown shade is sprinkled throughout with patches of shining steel-grey scales, and contains a black line 
along the cell, interrupted by the white patch, but thence dilated toward the upper half of the termen ; 
cilia greyish fuscous along their base, shining, grey, with some darker mottling on their outer half. Exp. 
al. 12-15 mm. AHindwings and cilia shining. whitish grey, slightly dark-mottled; the cilia with an 
inconspicuous darker shade near their base. Abdomen greyish ochreous. Legs whitish. 
Type 3 (66303) Mus. Wlsm. (Godm-Salv. Coll.) BM. [ PT. (66305) US. Nat. Mus. ] 
Hab. Mexico: euerREro: Amula, 6000 ft., VILL. (H. H. Smith). Three specimens. 
The ¢ of this species has a narrow costal fold. 
1. Propira vicina, sp. n. (Tab. IX. fig. 6.) 
Antennae smoky whitish. Palpi extending twice the length of the head beyond it, roughly clothed ; white. 
Head and Thorax white. Forewings white, with a broadish median fascia, much broken and mottled in 
patches of different colours, which are repeated in a similar band crossing the apex, and preceded by a 
curved line parallel to its inner margin; on the costal portion of these bands are some ferruginous 
patches, alternating with shining leaden grey, which is continued throughout them, enclosing on the central 
portion some blackish and greyish fuscous spots—the leaden grey sheen extends also over the white 
ground-colour of the wing on both sides of the curved line; cilia white, shaded with greyish along their 
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