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wards below costa and oblique below vcia 4 ; subterminal line only 

 defined by the contrast between the postmedial and terminal areas, 

 angled outwards at vein 7 and very slightly excurved at middle ; tbe 

 termen greyish with a series of slight dark striae defined on inner 

 side by faint whitish lunules ; cilia greyish at base, white at tips. 

 Hind wing white faintly tinged with brown, the termen whiter 

 with a fine dark terminal line; the underside with the costal area 

 suffused with rufous, an oblique dark bar from middle of costa, 

 blackish discoidal spot, diffused postmedial line from costa to vein 4, 

 diffused fuscous subterminal band, and terminal series of small 

 lunules. 



Hab. W. China, Pu-tsu-fang, (> J type. Exjp. 34-38 millim. 



Genus PROCRATERIA. 



type. 



Procra/eria, Hmpsn. Ann. S. Air. Mus. iii. p. 426 (1905) iiuloides. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned, short, the 2nd joint 

 moderately scaled, the 3rd joint moderate; Irons with large truncate conical 

 prominence with raised edges and corneous plate below it; eyes large, round ; 

 antennae of male serrate, of female ciliated ; thorax clothed chiefly with scales, 

 the pro- and metathorax with small spreading crests ; tibiae moderately fringed 

 with hair ; abdomen with dorsal crest at base only. Fore wing with the apex 

 rounded, the termen evenly curved and notcrenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near 

 angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the 

 areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obso- 

 lescent from well below middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 

 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



A. Fore wing without black patches on basal and apical costal 



areas pterota. 



B. Fore wing with black patches on basal and apical costal 



areas noloides. 



4263. Procrateria pterota, n. sp. (Plate CXXXVI. fig. 23.) 



Head and thorax ochreous white mixed with rufous ; palpi and 

 antennae fuscous ; legs suffused with fuscous brown ; abdomen 

 ochreous, the basal crest black. Fore wing ochreous white tinged 

 with pale rufous in parts, the veins with brown streaks, the costal 

 area suffused with pale pink ; subbasal line represented by a slight 

 oblique brown striga from costa ; antemedial line represented by an 

 oblique brown line from costa to subcostal nervure and a red-brown 

 line from submedian fold to inner margin angled inwards on vein 1 

 and with some rufous suffusion beyond it ; slight rufous streaks in 

 tipper and lower extremities of cell; two black discoidal points; 

 postmedial line represented by a very oblique brown line from costa 

 to vein 7 and an oblique rufous striga from inner margin just beyond 

 the antemedial line ; rufous streaks beyond the cell above veins 4, 3 

 and above vein 7 from the postmedial line to subterminal line, which 

 is very close to termen, whitish, minutely waved, defined on inner 

 side by a series of wedge-shaped rufous marks ; the terminal area 

 red-brown with a slight whitish line just before termen; cilia 



