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PROTEOTERAS,* Nov. Gen. 



Venation and notcli in posterior border of primaries as in Proteofteryx 

 Wlsm., but the primaries with tufts of raised scales on upper surface, and 

 the secondaries in the S with a large pencil or tuft of hairs on upper sur- 

 face in the space between the margin and the costal vein. 



Proteoteras vESCULANA, n. sp.— (j'?- Expanse 14 to 17 mm. General 

 color grayish-fuscous, with an olivaceous hue on the primaries, which 

 are roughened and have 5 nearly equidistant knobs of elevated scales 

 along the inner third (the 2d and 4th from base being largest, the 5th, at 

 base of ocellated patch, sinallestj, and one knob on the disc of the wing 

 opposite the second from the base. Under a lens is revealed an admixture 

 of gray, silvery, black and olivaceous scales, which, together with the 

 knobs, creases and other irregularities of the wings, when naturally 

 folded, strongly recall in appearance the lichened bark of a tree. Head 

 greenish, the palpi beneath and the clypeus white, antenna fusco- testaceous. 

 Thorax greenish, the patagia tipped with pale scales : primaries mottled 

 with green and grayish white; numerous abbreviated costal streaks and a 

 longitudinal line along the inner branch of the subcostal vein and often 

 continued in dots towards the apex, black; the green most pronounced on 

 the inner half of the wing, in a band extending towards the basal third 

 of costa, and in a band beneath the black line, the latter band reaching the 

 costa at the middle and produced on the other side in mottlings toward 

 the apex ; a broad oblique band starting from the costa before the middle, 

 the ocellated spot and the space above the black line, light gray; fringes 

 grayish-olivaceous: secondaries fuscous, their fringes but slightly paler; 

 in the male a black line along the costa and another along the costal vein, 

 these two lines enclosing a broad whitish stripe upon which rests a tuft ot 

 long gray scales arising near the base of the wing, upon the costa opposite 

 the base of the tuft some erect black scales : under surfaces pale fuscous, 

 a black stripe along the costa of all the wings in the male : legs white, the 

 four anterior tibise banded with green, their tarsi black with the tips of the 

 joints white, posterior tibire and tarsi shaded with gray. Abdomeii fus- 

 cous, margins of joints gray, beneath white; last ventral joint of the female 

 with a median slit and with a naked dot on each side; chitinous valve 

 of the ovipositor mostly concealed, flat, narrow, apex slightly emarginate, 

 the angles rounded : last ventral joint of the male with a median interrup- 

 tion in the scales; the claspers concealed by a covering of loose scales; 

 lateral tufts of the apical joint distinct. 



There is considerable variation in the ground color, some spe- 

 cimens having the pale marks predominant, some the green. 

 Some specimens are more or less suflused w^ith ferruginous in- 

 clining to tawny, and there is frequently a lawny spot at base of 

 ocellated spot. The black irregular streaks in the dark fascia 

 curving from middle of costa towards apex are persistent. 



* noCOTBO^. Proteus; 7V»a5, a genus of Tortricids. 



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