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Volume 116 19M Number 3501 



NEOTROPICAL MICROLEPIDOPTERA, V 



SYNOPSIS OF THE SPECIES OF THE GENUS PROEULIA 



FROM CENTRAL CHILE 



(LEPIDOPTERA : TORTRICIDAE)i 



By Nicholas S. Obraztsov 



The Neotropical species usually referred to the genera Eulior 

 Hiibner, Tortrix Linne, and Cnephasia Curtis actually have little in 

 common with these Holarctic genera. Some of these species have 

 been relegated recently to the genera Argyrotaenia Stephens, Sub- 

 argyrotaenia Obraztsov, Proeulia Clarke, Anopina Obraztsov, and 

 others, but the generic position of many species still remains uncertain. 

 Five new species from Central Chile described in this paper and four 

 already known are assigned to the genus Proeulia. Additional infor- 

 mation is included here concerning the previously described species. 



The genus Proeulia was established recently for two species from 

 the Juan Fernandez Islands (Clarke, 1963). The characters of this 

 genus, originally based on a study of its type, P. robinsoni (Aurivillius), 



I Prepared with the aid of a National Science Foundation Grant. Previous 

 parts of this same series are: I and II, Clarke, 1962, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., vol. 

 113, no. 3457, pp. 373-388; III, Clarke, 1964, ibid., vol. 115, no. 3480, pp. 61-84; 

 IV, Duckworth, 1964, ibid., vol. 116, no. 3497, pp. 97-114. 



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