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Genus PROCRIOSIS, nov. 



Type, P. dileuca. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely porrect. short ; frons with | 



truncate conical prominence with raised edges and small process ir. • 



corneous plate below it ; eyes large, round; antenna' of female almo^ 



iz clothed almost entirely with scales, the protb^rax Without crest, the 

 thorax with depressed crest; tibiae smoothly scaled; abdomen without 

 s. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and not 



orenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near of cell; from below upper ai 



9 stalked ; 10,11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of 



cell ; 5 nearly fully developed from below middle of discocellulars ; II. 7 from 



upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell to near middle. 



6075. Procriosis dileuca. n. sp. 



2 ■ Head, thorax, and abdomen yellowish white mixed with 



-brown, the head rather darker; pectus and legs white, the 



ibrownish ringed with white, the ventral surface of abdomen 



white. Fore wing with the basal half yellowish white suffused 



with grey leaving a white patch bevond the antemedial line from 



to inner margin; the outer half olive-brown tinged with 



purplish grey ; traces of a double subbasal line from costa to sub- 



median fold and of a double waved antemedial line ; a small white 



spot at upper angle of cell ; a triangular postmedial yellowish 



white patch on costa, the very indistinct dark postmedial line 



Fig. 202. — Procriosis dileuca, 2 • 1 • 



ug from its apex, strongly bent inwards below vein -1 and 

 oblique to inner margin ; faint traces of a pair Bubtermina] line 

 irved below vein 7 and at middle, with a Blight dark si- 

 te it below co^ta and dark points at middle ; a terminal series 

 light dark points. Hind wing yellowish white almost wholly 

 Buffused with red-brown, the cilia yellowish whit I with some 



red-brown; the underside yellowish white, a diffused antemedial 

 red-brown band, disooidal point, diffused curved p .! band, 



and diffused terminal band with ratht te inni • 



Hab. Be. E. Ajbii v. \ >: , 1 2 type. 24 millim, 



