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Genus PROCOTES. 

 Procotes, Butl. Journ. Linn. Soc., ZooL xii, p. 355 (1876). 



Type, P. diminuta, Wlk. 



Range. Ceylon. 



<3 . Antennae bipectinated. Palpi short and porrect. Tibiae 

 without spurs. Abdomen with short lateral tufts of hair on the 

 last segment. Fore wing with veins 4 and 5, and 8, 9, 1 stalked. 

 Hind wing with veins 3, 4, 5 stalked. 



497. Procotes diminuta, Wlk. Cat. i, p. 230; Moore, Lep. Ceyl ii, 

 p. 37, pi. 95, fig. 3 j C.dfS. no. 217. 



cJ. Black, shot with blue-green* 

 Fore wing with a hyaline spot in the 

 end of cell, a long streak below it, 

 and one beyond it. Hind wing with 

 the area below and beyond the cell 

 hyaline. 



Hob. Trincomali, Ceylon. Exp. 23 

 millim. 



Fig. 155. Procotes 

 diminuta, <5. \. 



Genus CLELEA. 

 Clelea, Wlk. Cat. ii, p. 465 (1854). 



Type, C. sapphirina, Wlk. 



Range. China ; Formosa ; Sikhim ; Khasi and Naga Hills ; 

 Burma. 



Antennae bipectinate in male, nearly simple in female. Palpi of 

 moderate length and porrect. Fore wing with all the veins from 

 the cell. Hind wing broad, with all the veins from the cell. 



498. Clelea sapphirina, Wlk. Cat. ii, p. 465. 



<5 . Black : the shaft of antennae, head, and legs above metallic 

 blue. Fore wing with short metallic 

 blue streaks from the base along the 

 costa and inner margin ; a transverse 

 antemedial band broken at middle ; a 

 subapical almost complete ring with a 

 submarginal spot below it ; a marginal 

 line. Hind wing with a metallic blue 

 streak sometimes present near inner 

 margin. Underside of fore wing with 

 some blue marginal streaks at apex ; 



hind wing streaked with blue throughout. Cilia whitish. 



$ . The frons, collar, and tegulae blue, a streak on vertex of 



thorax, and at sides o.f meso- and metathorax ; shaft of antennae 



more vivid blue. 



Abdomen in both sexes sometimes entirely brown, sometimes 



Fig. 156. Clelea sap- 

 phirina, c?. i. 



