PEOTAGKOTIS. 



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Genus PROTAGROTIS, nov. 



Tjpe, P. viralis. 



Proboscis fuUj' developed ; palpi with the 2nd joint oblique and moderately 

 Iringed with hair, the 3rd porrect ; frons smooth ; eyes large, rounded ; 

 antennii:' of male ciliated ; liead and thorax clothed with hair only and without 

 crests ; fore tibiic fringed witli hair, mid tibia) without spines, hind tibiiv with 

 one spine between medial and terminal spurs ; abdomen with some rough hair 

 at base of dorsum. Fore wing moderately broad, the apex not produced ; 

 veins 3 and 5 from near angle ef cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anasto- 

 mosing witli 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 

 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; G, 7 shortly 

 stalked or from cell. 



Sect. I. Antenna; of male with long bristles and cilia. 



1125. Protagrotis cuprea. 



Gortijna cuiyrea, Moore, P. Z. S. 1867, p. 50, pi. 6. f. 8 ; Hmpsn. Moths 

 Ind. ii. p. 173. 



Head and thorax vinous red mixed with purplish fuscous, hairs 

 tipped with grey ; pectus more fulvous ; abdomen purple-browu, 

 with the anal tuft and ventral surface more fulvous. Fore wing- 

 orange thickly irrorated with fiery red, the costal area, cell, and 

 postmedial area suffused with purplish fuscous ; the veins with dark 

 streaks ; the subbasal line red, indistinct, waved from costa to sub- 

 median fold ; the antemedial line red, waved, strongly excurved 

 below cell; claviform large, defined by red; orbicular and reniform 



Fig. 124. — Protagrotis cwpt'ca, S- l- 



large, defined by red, the former oblique, elliptical, or nearly round ; 

 an indistinct oblique waved line from lower angle of cell to inner 

 margin ; the postmedial line dark, bent outwards below costa, oblique 

 below vein 4 : a dentate orange subtorminal line slightly defined by 

 brown on inner side, angled outwards at vein 7 and inwards at 

 discal and submedian folds ; a fine dark waved terminal line. Hind 

 wing fuscous brown ; the costal area ochreous ; the cilia pinkish 

 rufous. The underside ochreous suff'used with purplish pink ; hind 

 wing with sinuous postmedial line. 



Hah. SiKuiM {AtHnson), 1 S cotype, {Dudgeon) \\ $ . Exj)., 

 S 40, $ 44 millim. 



