ICRORIODES. — P \ i;A('i;ol;i v. 



2S1 



Ah. 1. Head, thorax, and hasal halt" of fore wing with the 

 ground-colour pale ochreous. 



Ah. 2. Fore wing with black fascia above and below median 

 nervure and sinuous black streak above vein 1 between ante- and 

 postmedial lines. 



Ah. 3. Fore wing suffused with black to subternainal line, the 

 inner area rufous, the costal area pale ochreous to postmedial line. 



Hdb. Peru, Carabaya, Onconeque ( Ockt nden), 1 tf , 1 2 > Quinton. 

 Exp. 40 millim. Type f in Coll, Druce. 



Genus PARACRORIA, nov. 



Type. P. griseoeincta. 



Proboscis fully de\eloped; palpi upturned, (lie 2nd joint reaching to 

 about middle of irons and moderately sealed, the 3rd short ; irons with large 

 corneous prominence with raised edges; eyes large, round ; antenna: of 

 female somewhat laminate and almost simple ; thorax clothed almost entirely 

 jffith scales and with broad dorsal ridge of rough scales; tibia? moderately 

 fringed with hair ; abdomen without crests. Fore wing with the apex 

 rounded, the termen evenly curved, crenulate, the inner margin with scale- 

 tooth at middle: veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper anerle ; 

 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell. Hind 

 wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from well below middle 

 of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell near 

 ba>e only. 



3893. Paracroria griseoeincta. 

 Xanthoptera griseoeincta, Empsn. Ann. S. Afr. Mus. ii. p. 306(1902). 



$. Head and thorax ochreous tinged with rufous, the latter 

 with grey dorsal fascia, the tegulse and patagia above edged with 

 rufous ; abdomen ochreous. Fore wing ochreous tinged with rufous, 

 the basal area somewhat browner, the terminal area grey : subbasal 

 line represented by a curved rufous striga from costa ; antemedial 

 line rufous, strongly excurved below costa and in submedian inter- 

 space, incurved in cell; orbicular and reniforru with faint pale 



Fig. 77. — Paracroria griseoeincta, 5 ■ 



annuli, the former minute, round, the latter constricted at middle ; 

 postmedial line indistinct, double, rulous, minutely waved and 

 very strongly excurved, followed by a hardly waved blackish line, 

 then by a rufous line before the grey terminal area which has 

 traces of a very faintly waved curved brownish subternainal line 

 on it : a fine waved black terminal line ; cilia grey with a dark 

 line near tips. Hind wing ochreous tinged with red-brown 



