SPECIES GENTJS PROEULIA — OBRAZTSOV 193 



20-Obr., 1962), Quilpue, Valparaiso, Chile, November 1897 (V. 

 Izquerdo) ; all specimens are deposited in USNM. 



Remarks: This species has hitherto been known as a unique male 

 specimen. The holotype of P. tenontias and its genitalia were figured 

 by Clarke (1958). The female specimens examined by the present 

 author are very similar to the holotype, and there is no doubt that 

 they are conspecific with it. 



Proeulia cneca, new species 



Plate 7 (Figs. 5-7) 



Male: Antenna grayish ocherous, in basal portion with a slight 

 ferruginous tinge. Labial palpus brownish gray, on outer surface; 

 separate scales dark gray basally, and whitish ocherous at tips; 

 inner surface white ocherous. Head concolorous with outer surface 

 of labial palpus, differing in color of separate scales, brownish gray 

 at their middles, and whitish ocherous basally and at tips. Thorax 

 brown with some scales long, orange ocherous; tegula orange ocherous. 

 Abdomen shghtly paler than thorax. Legs ocherous. Forewing 

 ocherous with slight silvery shine and some areas covered with yellow 

 scales especially dense in basal third of wing, along discal cell, costal 

 and dorsal portions, and on external veins; minute, blackish dots on 

 disc and in external wing portion; ciUa pale ocherous, here and there 

 shghtly ferruginous, especially at tornus; underside of forewing 

 ferruginous ocherous, whitish ocherous externally and dorsally. 

 Length of forewing 11 mm. Hind wing white; basal tuft of hairs 

 white. 



Female: Unknown. 



Male genitalia: Uncus rather long; socii long, almost equally 

 broad. Fultura superior very narrow at middle, dilated and strongly 

 sclerotized laterally; fultura inferior high. Valva elongate, not turned 

 upward ; its external margin rather short ; sacculus long with a pointed 

 tip protruding far beyond valva. Aedeagus moderately tliickened, 

 with tip rotundate; one rather thick and long cornutus with infundibu- 

 liform envelope at base. 



Type: Holotype, male (genitalia on shde, 23-Obr., 1962), Guayacdn, 

 Santiago, Chile, 1100 m., October 1952 (L. E. Pena), USNM (type no. 

 66834). 



Remarks: This species is very similar to Proeulia leonina (Butler) 

 and differs from it in having no black dots on the discocellulars of the 

 forewing and in having the hind^^dng shiny white. The genitalia are 

 distinct in the two species. The name of this species is derived from 

 the Greek kvtikos, meaning "pale yellow." 



