SPECIES GENUS PROEULIA — OBRAZTSOV 187 



high. Valva elongate, gradually bent upward and slightly narrowed 

 apicad; sacculus moderate, somewhat tapering apicad, not free 

 pointed. Aedeagus rather stout; from two to four long cornuti, 

 one short, slightly curved, less than half length of long cornuti. 



Female genitalia: Lamella antevaginalis band shaped, narrowed 

 laterad; lamella postvaginahs semimembranous. Antrum not de- 

 veloped. Corpus bursae somewhat ovate, scobinate; cestum shaped 

 as a short, rotundate projection with a moderately sclerotized base; 

 cervix bursae broad and short. Sclerotization around ostium ovi- 

 ductus A-shaped. 



Types: Holotype, male (genitalia on slide), and three male para- 

 types in USNM. One male paratype in the British Museum (Natural 

 History). One male paratype (not seen by the present author) in the 

 collection of F. Bourquin. All were collected in Caj6n de Maipo, 

 Santiago, Chile, Jan. 12-20, 1948 (Don Tito Ramirez). 



Other specimens examined: One male, Chile Centro-Austral, Jan- 

 uary-March 1898 (V. Izquerdo), in USNM. Five males (genitalia 

 of two on slides 6694 and 6703), and two females (genitalia of one on 

 slide 6710), Coquimbo, Chile, July 1-Oct. 19, 1883 (Walker, 3021- 

 3024, 3000, 3205), and May 1884, bred from Aristolochia chilensis 

 (Walker, 3234); two males (genitalia of one on slide 6760) and one 

 female, Valparaiso, Chile, Mar. 22-Apr. 13, 1882, Sept. 30-Oct. 8, 

 1883 (Walker, 2353, 2359, 3078); six males (genitaha of one on sHde 

 6693), Quillota, Valparaiso, Chile, 1886 (Paulson, 68013-68018); 

 the foregoing 15 specimens are deposited in the British Museum 

 (Natural History). Five males (genitalia of one on slide, 21-Obr., 

 1962), Guayacan, Santiago, Chile, 1100 m., Jan. 25-26, 1951, Oc- 

 tober 1952 (L. E. Pena); two males (genitalia on slides, 1-Obr., 

 1962, and 2-Obr., 1962), La Obra, Santiago, Chile, October 1952 

 (L. E. Pena) ; one male (genitalia on slide, 22-Obr., 1962), El Principal, 

 Chile,' November 1888 (V. Izquerdo); all eight specimens are in 

 USNM. 



Remarks: The holotype and its genitalia were figured by Clarke 

 (1949). The shape of the valvae became distorted slightly on the 

 original photograph, and they look more narrow apicad than they 

 really are. The holotype has three long cornuti, but this number 

 varies in the species. In one of the males examined (slide, 1-Obr., 1962) 

 there are only two long cornuti; another male (slide, 21-Obr., 1962) 

 has four of them. The presence of a short, slightly bent comutus is 

 apparently constant for the species. The variation of the number of 



1 Because the collector is deceased, there is probably no way of ascertaining 

 exactly this location. Gazetteer (no. 6, Chile, Office of Geography, Department 

 of the Interior, Washington, August 1955, p. 107) lists two names, one located at 

 33.47 S. and 70.30 W., the other at 33.42 S. and 70.34 W. 



