SPECIES GENUS PROEULIA — OBRAZTSOV 191 



externally. Aedeagus rather thick, with lower tip acute and upper 

 with a slightly elevated carina; two long cornuti, one short, slightly 

 longer than one-half length of long ones. 



Type: Holotype, male (genitalia on slide, 3-Obr., 1962), La Obra, 

 Santiago, Chile, October 1952 (L. E. Peiia), USNM (type no. 

 66832). 



Remarks: Somewhat similar to Proeulia apospasta, new species, 

 but the markings of the forewing are more indistinct; no distinct 

 triangular spot on the dorsum of forewing. Very typical of the 

 species is a carina in the upper distal portion of the aedeagus. 



Proeulia apospasta, new species 



Plate 6 (Figs. 1-3) 



Female: Antenna ocherous, sUghtly brownish annulated. Labial 

 palpus ocherous, mixed with ferruginous, paler from inside. Head, 

 thorax, and abdomen concolorous with labial palpus. Legs pale 

 ferruginous ocherous. Forewing ocherous, slightly ferruginous 

 ocherous in external portion, and strongly so colored at wing base; 

 a broad, ferruginous, longitudinal blotch, originating at wing base, 

 tapering basad and externad, and not reaching end of discal cell; 

 a narrow, oblique, brownish-ferruginous streak from lower angle of 

 discal cell to middle of dorsum; a narrow, whitish line separating 

 this streak from external, oblique edge of above-mentioned ferruginous 

 blotch, and connected to pale ocherous, dorsal area below this blotch; 

 a narrow, oblique, slightly undulate, brownish-ferruginous band 

 shaded externally by ferruginous, running costotornad from about 

 middle of costa but not reaching tornus, and with its middle touching 

 upper end of above-mentioned brownish-ferruginous oblique streak 

 almost under right angle; a triangular, pale ocherous dorsal spot 

 separated by that streak and lower portion of mentioned costotornal 

 band; some indistinct, pale ferruginous, minute streaks in costal 

 area, and fine, concolorous dots and lines in area externad from 

 costotornal band; a minute, brownish-ferruginous dot at dorsum 

 before tornus; cilia pale ferruginous, becoming pale ocherous tornad; 

 underside of forewing pale ferruginous, abruptly becoming darker 

 before a pale ocherous, subterminal line. Length of forewing 10 mm. 

 Hindwing light fuscous with slightly brassy hue; a concolorous tuft 

 of hairs at base of veins A2 and A3; cilia whitish with a fine, greyish 

 basal line. 



Male: Unknown. 



Female genitalia: Lamella antevaginalis band-shaped, narrowed 

 laterally; lamella postvaguialis weakly sclerotized. No separate 

 antrum. Corpus bursae rotund ate-pyriform, in most of caudal por- 



