PEOCRIDIA. PHAULOSIA. 



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Genus PEOCRIDIA, nov. 



Type, P. mdaUiea. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi minute, fringed with hair ; antennse short 

 and greatly dilated, with thick scales at middle ; hind tibice with the medial 

 spurs absent, the terminal spurs minute. Fore wing narrow, the costa arched 

 at middle ; veins 2. 3, 4 stalked ; 5 absent ; 6, 7, 8 stalked ; 9 absent ; 10 absent ; 

 11 free. Hind wing with vein 2 from well before angle of cell ; 3, 4 coincident ; 

 5 absent ; 6, 7 stalked ; 8 from middle of cell. 



*748. Procridia metallica. 



Odozana metallica, Dognin, Ann. Soc. Ent. Beige, xli. p. 243 (1897). 



5 . Head and thorax 

 golden metallic green, with 

 some coppery scales ; ahdo- 

 men blue-green. Fore wing 

 metallic golden green, the 

 margins bluer; a large 

 orange patch on terminal 

 area. Hind wing fuscous 

 with a bluish tinge ; a ter- 

 minal ill-defined yellow band narrowing to a point near tornus. 

 Bab. Ecuador, Loja, type f $ in Coll. Dognin. Ex'p. 24 millim. 



Fig. 266. — Procridia metallica, 5 • 



Genus PHAULOSIA, nov. 



Type, P. sordida. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, slender, not reaching vertex of 

 head ; antennae of female ciliated ; tibiffi with the spurs moderate ; abdomen 

 with the anal tuft large. Fore wing rather narrow ; vein 2 from beyond 

 middle of cell ; 3 from well before angle ; 4, 5 from angle ; 6, 7, 8, 9 stalked ; 

 7 from beyond 9 ; 10, 11 free. Hind wing with vein 2 from beyond middle of 

 cell ; 3, 4 coincident ; 5 absent ; 6, 7 on a long stalk ; 8 from middle of cell. 



749. Phaulosia sordida. 



EtidoUche sordida, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1878, p. 55; Kirby, Cat. Het. 

 p. 300. 



5 . Head and thorax whitish 

 tinged with brown ; abdomen 

 grey. Fore wing white, irro- 

 rated and suffused with reddish 

 brown ; a daik point at lower 

 angle of cell; the apical area 

 without white sutfusion, a 



¥\g.2Ql.-Phaulosia sordida, 2. \. ^^^^^^^^ ^PO^ at apex. Hind 



wing pale fuscous. 

 The type is much rubbed. 

 Hah. Amazons, 11. Jutahi {Trail), 1 $ type. Exp. 14 millim. 



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