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Corpus bursae elongate-ovate, with a large, lateral swelling bearing 

 a well-developed cestum; cervix bursae broad and short. Sclerotiza- 

 tion around ostium oviductus well developed. 



Tjrpes: Lectotype, male (genitalia on slide 8641), Valparaiso, 

 Chile, November 1881 (T. Edmonds, 1882-107); lectoaUotype, female 

 (genitalia on slide 8776), same data; British Museum (Natural 

 History), 



Other specimens examined: One male and two females, Chile (T, 

 Edmonds, Druce Collection, 1917-36); one female (genitalia on slide 

 6711), Quillota, Valparaiso, Chile, 1886 (Paulson, 68384); British 

 Museum (Natural History). 



Proeulia auraria (Clarke), new combination 



Plates 2, 3 

 Eulia auraria Clarke, 1949, Acta Zool. Lilloana, vol. 7, p. 583, pi. 2, figs. 6-Cb 



The original description of this species was based on a series of six 

 male specimens, all of them taken in Caj6n de Maipo, Santiago. 

 Many additional specimens examined for the present paper originated 

 from other localities, showing that the species is rather variable. 

 The length of the fore wing varies from 7 to 12 mm. Most of the 

 small specimens (the type series included) have the forewing markings 

 reduced to an incomplete oblique band running from the middle of 

 the costa toward the tornus and sending from slightly below its 

 middle a short band directed toward the middle of the dorsum. These 

 bands are generally underdeveloped, and only some of their elements 

 are present in each specimen. In some specimens the dorsal portions 

 of the above-mentioned bands form a more or less distinct dorsal 

 triangle or a semicircular arch, some outlines of which are dilated and 

 more intensively dark colored, forming blackish-brown spots. In addition, 

 one more band may be present, running externally to the oblique 

 costotornal band and parallel to it. Occasionally all or some of the 

 bands are widely dilated, and/or some minute, brownish, or ferrugi- 

 nous streaks at the costa and dorsum are present. The golden- 

 ocherous ground color of the forewing is more or less mottled with 

 brown or ferruginous, which causes development of a fine reticulation 

 or separate spots or short lines. Rarely the two basal thirds of the 

 forewing or even the entire forewing are overlaid with brown. Upper 

 basal angle of the forewing commonly differs from the ground color 

 of the wing and is brown, gray, or yellowish. The hindwing is white, 

 ocherous white, or pale cinereous, in some specimens distinctly speckled 

 with gray. 



Male genitalia: Uncus rather long, slightly bent; socii dilated 

 externally. Fultura superior narrow; fultura inferior moderately 



